Overview
- President Donald Trump shared a Moroccan promotional video on Truth Social calling a roughly 1,055 km (about 655‑mile) coastal route from Tiznit to Dakhla the “President Donald J. Trump Highway” and thanked King Mohammed VI.
- Several outlets relied on the video for route and length details, but early reporting noted Moroccan government sources and the U.S. administration had not immediately confirmed an official renaming.
- Morocco frames the project as part of a broader infrastructure strategy, tying the highway to a roughly $1 billion deepwater port in Dakhla that is scheduled for completion in 2028 to boost shipping links.
- The naming fits a wider pattern in 2025–26 of the president celebrating his name on major projects, a trend that has included U.S. airport and facility renamings and generated legal and political pushback.
- The announcement should be read as both diplomatic signaling and state‑building: the road project strengthens overland access and investment in territory long contested by the Polisario Front and claimed by Morocco.