{"id":162370,"date":"2026-02-20T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162370\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:15:07","slug":"trumps-name-cleared-to-land-on-palm-beach-airport-after-florida-republicans-pass-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162370\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s name cleared to land on Palm Beach airport after Florida Republicans pass bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An airport in Florida will soon be renamed after US President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, after a bill proposing the change was approved by the state\u2019s legislature on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump, a real estate mogul who has plastered his name on buildings around the world, has sought to leave his mark on the country in an unprecedented image and building campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/florida?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida<\/a>\u2019s Republican-led legislature approved a bill to rename the Palm Beach International Airport as the President Donald J. Trump International Airport, state records show. Governor Ron DeSantis, once a Trump opponent, is expected to sign the measure into law.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFifty years from now, when we\u2019re all not in this chamber and maybe not here on this earth, we\u2019re going to look back and recognise what this president, this sitting president, did to save America,\u201d Florida state Senator Danny Burgess said during the legislative debate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of the US Secret Service stand by ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport on February 13. Photo: Getty Images \/ AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7a9987ae-122c-4811-a1ff-d5fe3ddfd5d0_5525e1d8.jpg\" title=\"Members of the US Secret Service stand by ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport on February 13. Photo: Getty Images \/ AFP\"\/>Members of the US Secret Service stand by ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport on February 13. Photo: Getty Images \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The airport in Palm Beach, a town known for its sandy beaches and luxurious estates, is just minutes away from Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An airport in Florida will soon be renamed after US President Donald Trump, after a bill proposing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62303,409,77717,7811,28,30,29,77720,77716,33636,77718,47277,9098,9097,10862,77715,77719],"class_list":{"0":"post-162370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-debbie-mayfield","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-dulles-international-airport","11":"tag-federal-aviation-administration","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-florida-state-senator-danny-burgess","16":"tag-john-f-kennedy","17":"tag-justice-department","18":"tag-kennedy-centre","19":"tag-lori-berman","20":"tag-mar-a-lago","21":"tag-palm-beach","22":"tag-palm-beach-international-airport","23":"tag-penn-station","24":"tag-the-trump-organisation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370","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=162370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}