\u201cAs you know, President Trump is the first president that Florida has had in our country and our history, and I think it\u2019s very appropriate for us to be naming one of the other icons in Palm Beach County after him,\u201d bill sponsor Debbie Mayfield, R-Indialantic, said, referring to Trump being a Palm Beach County resident.<\/p>\n
Initially known as Morrison Field when the first commercial operations were conducted in 1936, the airport has been Palm Beach International Airport since 1948. The airport served as a military base during World War II and the Korean War. The county took over airport operations in 1959.<\/p>\n
In 2021, as Trump reportedly asked advisers to get an airport named after him, and a former Republican Party of Florida leader suggested the West Palm Beach airport, the majority of the Palm Beach County Commission rejected the idea when asked by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.<\/p>\n
Mayfield said after Tuesday\u2019s meeting that there would be a \u201chuge economic impact\u201d for the county.<\/p>\n
\u201cAir Force One stays at their airport. And so, it\u2019s a big economic driver for them,\u201d Mayfield said. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked to the Trump people. There\u2019s a lot of other things that are going to be happening at that airport that are going to be very positive for that airport. So that\u2019s what changed their mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
A House version of the bill (HB 919) is scheduled to be heard Wednesday by the Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee.<\/p>\n
Mayfield\u2019s bill would need approval from the Senate Community Affairs Committee and the Senate Rules Committee before reaching the Senate floor.<\/p>\n
During the 2025 legislative session, lawmakers designated a four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County \u2014 from Kirk Road, south of Palm Beach International Airport, to Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago Club on South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach \u2014 as \u201cPresident Donald J. Trump Boulevard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayfield\u2019s bill wouldn\u2019t change the names of the other major airports in Florida: Orlando International Airport, Miami International Airport, Fort Lauderdale\/Hollywood International Airport, Tampa International Airport, Southwest Florida International Airport in Lee County and Jacksonville International Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs you know, President Trump is the first president that Florida has had in our country and our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1623,6205,139,11583,141,3847,140,66301,2684,66302],"class_list":["post-135369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-apple-news","tag-mco","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-airport","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news","tag-palm-beach-airport","tag-trump","tag-trump-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}