Palm Beach Airport gets to be the Donald Trump Airport…..

“Regardless of your personal view on the president, his record speaks for itself — President Trump has delivered meaningful results for Florida and the United States,” said bill sponsor state Sen. Debbie Mayfield (R-Melbourne).

The state Senate passed the legislation, FL HB919 (26R), that switches Palm Beach International’s name to “President Donald J. Trump International Airport” on Thursday by a 25-11 vote. House members Tuesday voted 81-30 in favor the bill, which also would thwart local officials from naming major commercial airports by preempting that authority to the state…..

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After the bill passed the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday, bill sponsor Sen. Debbie Mayfield told the Herald/Times that Trump will not profit from the airport’s use of his name.

[Trump] is not charging the Palm Beach International Airport for the use of the name,” Mayfield said. “He’s not charging them a franchise fee. He’s not charging them a license fee. He’s not charging them a fee for doing it.”

Mayfield said the president’s name had been trademarked for a long time, and that he recently also trademarked his name in the context of an airport to protect his brand….

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Trump makes money off the Airport Branding?

Trademark attorney Josh Gerben said the move by a private Trump-linked company to own the name for an airport is unprecedented — both in the history of the dozen other airports named after presidents, and in comparison to Trump’s attempts to rename other buildings while in office, like the Kennedy Center.

“This is the first [trademark] filing we’ve seen him make in that private company since taking office that really has a direct relationship to something he’s trying to accomplish in office, which is the renaming of these airports,” Gerben said.

Reagan National Airport’s trademark, for example, is owned by the public entity that operates the airport — not a private company, Gerben said.

“They own the trademark for it, not the president, not President Reagan’s heirs or library or anything like that,” Gerben said.

Democrats who opposed the passage of the bill in an 81-30 vote in the Florida House Tuesday said the private trademarks for the name represent the latest “grift” from a president whose personal wealth has grown by more than $4 billion while in office, according to reporting in January by the New Yorker.

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Maybe they’ll rename the state after this felon and sex offender President?