After Trump’s remark, Alabama Republican lawmakers weigh options for naming I-10 bridge

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Politicians gather at Cooper Riverside Park on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, to officially break ground on the $4.15 billion Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project. The project will be under construction for the next five years and will be highlighted by a new 215-foot-tall cable-stayed bridge over the Mobile River, as well as a restriped I-10 Bayway from Mobile to Daphne.

U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, U.S. Senator Katie Britt and Mobile Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis.

A rendering of the future I-10 Mobile River Bridge in downtown Mobile, Ala. The bridge project is expected to be completed by 2031.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and U.S. Senator Katie Britt at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Cooper Riverside Park in downtown Mobile, Ala.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey at the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway groundbreaking on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Cooper Riverside Park in downtown Mobile, Ala.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy does an impersonation of President Donald Trump during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Cooper Riverside Park in downtown Mobile, Ala.

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville at the Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Cooper Riverside Park in downtown Mobile, Ala.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at Cooper Riverside Park in downtown Mobile, Ala.

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey at a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, for the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project at Cooper Riverside Park in Mobile, Ala.

President Donald Trump, speaking Friday at a rally at the University of South Alabama’s Mitchell Center, suggested that perhaps state leaders would name “the damn bridge after me.”

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