{"id":212707,"date":"2026-03-31T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212707\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:05:15","slug":"ron-desantis-signs-bill-renaming-palm-beach-airport-after-donald-trump-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212707\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis signs bill renaming Palm Beach airport after Donald Trump | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

He has buildings, institutions, government programs, warships, currency, and now Donald Trump<\/a> is getting an airport that bears his name even as he looks forward to a towering Trump presidential library in Miami.<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis, Florida\u2019s governor, signed a bill on Monday saying the Palm Beach international airport was being renamed to the President Donald J Trump international airport.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s family business filed a trademark application<\/a> for the airport name in February. If approved, the name change would take effect on 1 July.<\/p>\n

The Florida airport is the latest in a series of buildings, institutions, government programs, navy battleships, national parks passes and even money to be named after the US president.<\/p>\n

DeSantis also worked last year to get a parcel of land in Miami to be the home for Trump\u2019s presidential library. On Truth Social on Monday, Trump posted<\/a> a video of a rendering of the library, set to dramatic music, which showed an enormous mirrored skyscraper emblazoned with his name and the American flag.<\/p>\n

The video includes panning shots of the tower\u2019s exterior and interior, with a presidential jet parked in the lobby alongside a gold escalator like the one Trump rode while launching his presidential campaign in 2015. Other shots show a giant ballroom like the one he\u2019s planning for the White House, a replica Oval Office, rooftop gardens and a large, gold statue of Trump.<\/p>\n

A credit says the design comes from Bermello Ajamil, a Miami-based firm. Trump posted the video with no explanation beyond a link to a new website for the library. The website says, \u201ccoming soon\u201d, with a link to donate money.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the plans.<\/p>\n

Trump, a native of New York, moved to Florida in 2019. Before the move, he lived in a penthouse at Trump Tower but has since taken primary residence at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n

Before the name can be changed, a formal request must be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration, which then must process the change in various flight charting and navigation databases, and the airport signs must be changed.<\/p>\n

Last week, representative Brian Mast introduced legislation to change the airport\u2019s three-letter code from PBI to DJT denoting Trump\u2019s initials.<\/p>\n

The US Treasury said last week that US paper currency will bear Trump\u2019s signature starting this summer, the first time a sitting president has signed American money.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s name has also been affixed to a planned class of Navy warships, a visa program for wealthy foreigners, a government-run prescription drug website, and federal savings accounts for children.<\/p>\n

In December, the board of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which Trump filled with allies during a board takeover, added Trump\u2019s name to the institution.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s name was also added in December to the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, months after his administration seized the non-profit organization and all but closed it.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a federal arts panel comprised of members appointed by Trump approved a commemorative gold coin featuring his image, part of a series of coins the US Mint is planning to produce to celebrate the US\u2019s 250th birthday this year.<\/p>\n

In February, the White House confirmed Trump raised the idea of dropping his hold on funding for a New York Hudson River tunnel project in exchange for Democratic senator Chuck Schumer supporting renaming of Washington Dulles airport and New York Penn Station after Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has buildings, institutions, government programs, warships, currency, and now Donald Trump is getting an airport that bears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-212707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212707","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=212707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}