Social media personality JoJo Siwa has gone public with her support for naming an international airport after her.
Siwa told TMZ last week that she has endorsed–and signed on to–a petition to rename Ronald Reagan International Airport after her. The airport serves the greater Washington DC area.
“I obviously am on board with it,” Siwa said. “This would be the sickest thing ever. I would take every flight out from there. My mom told me to go sign the petition. It’s the best idea I’ve ever heard in my life.”
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The petition was started by a Siwa fan named Dylan Long who hoped to garner at least 75,000 signatures. At the time of this writing, the petition has over 54,000 people signed on.
When pressed for more details as to why she deserved the airport more than Ronald Reagan, Siwa demurred. “You know what I know, he’s got an airport,” she said of the former President.
Frankly, we’re all for renaming the Ronald Reagan International Airport. While the notoriously homophobic Republican Party touts Reagan as something of a hero, his record suggests otherwise. Reagan notoriously ignored the HIV/AIDS crisis which claimed the lives of thousands of LGBTQ people in the United States even before 1985 when it became a full-blown epidemic. Even then, Reagan suggested abstinence as a treatment. He also opposed anti-discrimination protections for queer people. Reagan’s policies of deregulation and “trickle-down” economics also had a horrible effect on the US economy, resulting in a lower standard of living for middle and lower-class American families.
Liquid Silver
To quote Leela, “Oh, lord.”
BoomerMyles
Who da f*ck is she and why is Queerty covering it?
Cam
A massive social media following and came out of the closet to her entire social media following without a scandal forcing her to.
Joshua333
She wasnt the one who made the petition, she’s just on board with it. Honestly sounds pretty amazing.
Prax07
Could land a 747 on that for head, so getting an airport named after her makes sense.
Leash
Making fun of the appearance of a 17 year old girl on the internet? Is that the kind of person you want to be?
Mr. Stadnick
infantile and petty you have that covered.
Fname Optional Lname
If you’re going to insult a teenager about the size of her “for head”, at least learn how to spell the word “forehead”. Now there are two things we won’t be able to forgive you for.
Fahd
Cute, but the petition is not going to work.
The airport name was changed from National Airport to Reagan Airport because the Republicans were in power in the Congress for most of the 1990s — in other words, blame Newt Gingrich.
The moral of the story is that in order to reverse (or avoid future) abominations like putting Reagan’s name on the National Airport do everything possible — within the law of course– to keep the Republicans out of power.
Dijonaise
She’s just having a little fun, and twitter, I mean TikTok trending for a hot second. BoomerMiles, she is a newly minted little lesbian sister, with lots of clout with the gen-Z
Dwight
So twice in the article you got the name wrong. It’s not Ronald Reagan “International” Airport but Ronald Reagan Washington “National” Airport.
ScottinDC
Thank you! It even shows it in the graphic correctly.
sfhairy
She needs to go away!
Hdtex
Rename it NATIONAL.
Cozmo2
Why? Who? What? Who is she never heard of her
Creamsicle
I had to ask my roommate’s daughter who she is. I’m 35, so it makes sense that I’m not in on youth culture any more. It’s fine, different generations need their own thing and celebrity personalities.
The Internet generations don’t care if Gen xX or Boomers know their celebrities and content. In fact, as soon as Boomers get in on it it’s basically over and time to move on. That’s why Facebook is mostly old people now and younger people are into reddit, discord servers, and TikTok.