Florida Lawmakers Object to Renaming Palm Beach International Airport After Donald Trump

[brooklynite]

Source: People Magazine

The Palm Beach International Airport will not be renamed after former President Donald Trump.

On Saturday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that several Florida lawmakers were opposed to renaming the Palm Beach County airport after Trump, who would often travel through to visit his Mar-a-Lago estate.

"When people hear [Palm Beach], they envision our beaches, our equestrian sports, and in some cases our agricultural contributions," County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay told the outlet. "It is a lifestyle."

McKinlay added that "Trump International" would be "better-suited for his golf courses, not our airport."

Read more: https://people.com/politics/florida-lawmakers-object-renaming-palm-beach-international-airport-after-trump/

[Turbineguy]

1. The whole fucking country

should be named after trump according to these dead-enders.

Then we take over the world and everything on the planet is named after trump.

Then we take over the Universe.

[dutch777]

2. Hilary Clinton International Airport has a nice ring to it. I vote for that.

Did I just hear a head explode in Mar a Lago?

[bluevoter4life]

6. Actually, the official name for the airport in Little Rock

Is Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.

[dutch777]

21. Darn!

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. They don't usually name airports after people until after they are dead

[jb5150]

4. then how about ..

The Lawton Chiles International Airport.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. You're absolutely right

But it was a good excuse. How about waiting until IMPEACHED presidents are dead?

[tulipsandroses]

5. I have a feeling trump is going to wear out his welcome in Florida -

It may even get to the point of Desantis rejecting him. trump is bad for business for FL. As they said in the article, when people think FL, they think beaches, family fun, etc. If trump living there full time becomes a magnet for his MAGA lunatics, he's going to find that FL won't stand for it if it means that - tourists no longer want to come to FL.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Florida is a swing state

Why doesn't he move to some deeply red state to be with his people, like Arkansas or West Virginia?

[Earthshine2]

7. In terms of the passenger experience, PBI airport is considered one of the best in the US.

It has a single terminal, easy parking, quick access to highways, and everything about it looks clean and modern.

It would be a shame to ruin it by making it Trump's namesake.

It is very close to Mar-a-Lago.

If you want a laugh, click this search link and just read the headlines. It's all bad for Trump.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mar+a+lago+news

[angstlessk]

9. I remember Norfolk's old air terminal

a one story long building with 'gates' but mostly fences, and you walked to the staircase into the plane. No security at all, and everyone got to wave goodbye at the fence.

OH, for the days of innocence!

[friendly_iconoclast]

13. It is as you described it- I used it a lot when visiting family in FL

Trump doesn't deserve the honor.

[obamanut2012]

23. And TSA is sooo easy there!

I know folks who travel extra to fly out of there instead of the Hell that is FTL.

[Cha]

11. Good on them! Why smear their

airport with Fascism & Treason among all the other Shite he's brought down on America.

bet he's fucking livid

[Deuxcents]

12. Good news

[DENVERPOPS]

14. How about

naming the Palm Beach Sewage Treatment Plant after him??????????

[thenelm1]

17. Not near enough shite to fit the name....n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

15. What is wrong with people?

Can't they come up with someone — anyone — who deserves it better? out of all the people in this country they go to the worst president in history!

Right off the top of my head, there's Pee Wee Herman International, or Tom Petty. Everybody in Florida loves Tom Petty! If they want to stick with conservative politicians, they could do better with David Duke Intl.

[friendly_iconoclast]

16. I propose that Corrosion Corner at Miami International Airport be renamed after Trump

The northwest part of MIA might as well have been Mos Eisley Spaceport for all the sketchy goings-on
that happened there. A perfect place to be renamed The Donald J. Trump Maintenace and Storage Area:

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/09/us/storing-area-of-miami-airport-is-a-thieves-shopping-center.html

...To the casual passer-by, ''corrosion corner'' at Miami International Airport is a crowded, messy place where old planes are cannibalized for parts, newer ones are stored and serviced, and cargo carriers come and go.

To thieves, this northwest corner, with its millions of dollars in aircraft and parts, has become a gold mine. Since November more than a half-million dollars worth of instruments and avionics equipment have been reported stolen from airliners parked here. The jets, mostly DC-8's and Boeing 727's, are owned by cargo carriers and leasing and management companies. Most stand idle day in and day out...

...''At what point do you know when someone is working on an airplane to fix it or working on an airplane to steal?'' said Lieut. Ned Valois of Metro-Dade, who is heading the investigation. He said the companies have been cooperating with his office in supplying leads, but no arrests have been made.

Neither the police nor aviation department patrols go into the leaseholders' area or the hangars, said Eddie Hammond, director of security for the aviation department. He said that in many cases ''we don't even know who the owner is'' or who is authorized to be around the aircraft....

Lots of photos and vivid descriptions of the many, many beater aircraft to be found there back in the day:

http://www.michaelprophet.com/MiamiCC.html

Miami’s Corrosion Corner

[pazzyanne]

18. "former President Donald Trump"

Aren't those simply lovely words!

[SunSeeker]

19. Trump might not be living at Mar-a-Lago for very long...

Mar-a-Lago neighbors to Trump: Spend your post-presidency elsewhere

Next-door neighbors of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla., that he has called his Winter White House, have a message for the outgoing commander in chief: We don’t want you to be our neighbor. That message was formally conveyed Tuesday morning in a demand letter delivered to the town of Palm Beach and also addressed to the U.S. Secret Service asserting that Trump lost his legal right to live at Mar-a-Lago because of an agreement he signed in the early 1990s when he converted the storied estate from his private residence to a private club. The legal maneuver could, at long last, force Palm Beach to publicly address whether Trump can make Mar-a-Lago his legal residence and home, as he has been expected to do when he becomes an ex-president after the swearing-in of Joe Biden on Jan. 20.

The contretemps sets up a potentially awkward scenario, unique in recent history, in which a former Oval Office occupant would find himself having to officially defend his choice of a place to live during his post-presidency. It also could create a legal headache for Trump because he changed his official domicile to Mar-a-Lago, leaving behind Manhattan, where he lived before being elected president and before his fame as a brash, self-promoting developer. (Trump originally tried to register to vote in Florida using the White House in Washington as his address, which is not allowed under Florida law. He later changed the registration to the Mar-a-Lago address.)

In the demand letter, obtained by The Washington Post, a lawyer for the Mar-a-Lago neighbors says the town should notify Trump that he cannot use Mar-a-Lago as his residence. Making that notification would “avoid an embarrassing situation” if the outgoing president moves to the club and later has to be ordered to leave, according to the letter sent on behalf of the neighbors, the DeMoss family, which runs an international missionary foundation.

The Mar-a-Lago neighbors would be okay with Trump’s finding a new place to bunk. Their letter, written by West Palm Beach attorney Reginald Stambaugh, includes a zinger that harks to the vibe of the old-money enclave on Florida’s east coast: “Palm Beach has many lovely estates for sale, and we are confident President Trump will find one which meets his needs.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-mar-a-lago-neighbors-dispute/2020/12/15/bc2ce1d0-3ed4-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

[spike jones]

20. so they don't want to name the Asshole International Airport? n/t

[VladmireTrumpkins]

22. I read the article along with one that

wanted to name a highway after Trump and a Rep that said Georgia was infested with "left wing locusts"
Crazy Crazy and hateful people

[nykym]

24. Rep. Linda Snchez says she's poised to introduce legislation

that would ban virtually everything — "even a bench" — from bearing President Trump's name.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/533647-lawmaker-to-unveil-bill-ensuring-nothing-no-airport-no-highway

[tavernier]

25. They could name Florida's garbage mountains after him.

I wouldn’t mind that. There are many Mount Trumps close to Palm Beach.

[mitch96]

26. Everything he touches turns to shit... nt