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Ready to fly out of Donald J. Trump Airport?
Reports are circulating that the US president, who will step down on January 20, has been asking his aides and advisers what it takes for an airport to be named in his honor, the Daily beast reported.
Judd Deere, the White House deputy press secretary, did not confirm The Miami Herald if these chats have taken place.
“Off record – we don’t comment on private conversations,” Deere said in an email.
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If Donald Trump has his way, he would join the ranks of 10 former US presidents with named airports.
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But given that Palm Beach International is just a few miles from Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort center where Trump, his wife, and son Barron are expected to live, it seems the most likely airport that would seek a name change on its honor if that’s what you want.
The Miami International Airport and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport cannot be ruled out either. Both are also not far from Trump’s family outlets in his base adoption proposal.
Melania Trump reportedly visited Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale recently as a potential school for the couple’s teenage son, Barron.
Daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner bought a $ 30 million piece of land in Indian Creek Village in Miami-Dade County in early December.
Christian Ziegler, a senior official in the Florida Republican Party, suggested a name change from Palm Beach International to Trump International Airport. As such, “it would be the gateway to South Florida for fans who adore the former president,” the Solar Sentinel reported.
A Palm Beach International spokeswoman told the Solar Sentinel the airport had not been boarded due to a name change.
South Florida could also be listed as the location of a presidential library, reports say.
“We absolutely should be looking in Florida for a presidential library. It would be a fantastic economic generator,” Ziegler told the Sun-Sentinel.
The library may be easier to achieve.
For an airport to be named after a president, “a local government must be willing to consider the idea,” according to The boy with the points.
It would help if the state is red.
Florida, a conservative red state: check. All 29 state electoral votes went to Trump after he garnered more votes in Florida than President-elect Joe Biden.
The Palm Beach County Commission would have to take on the task of pushing for a renaming of its airport, reports WPLG.
Palm Beach chose Biden, who received 56.1 percent of the popular vote in the November presidential election, based on state election results.
Biden won Miami-Dade with 53.4 percent and Broward with 64.6 percent.
However, Trump took the Florida Keys, with 53.5 percent of the popular vote, but the tiny Monroe airport is not the international mega-site that Trump would likely prefer.
Of course, none of this says that a commission has to vote based on the election results.
As for the Big Guy, Trump is not yet tweeting about airports or libraries.
If Trump got an airport in America, he would join the ranks of 10 former presidents with named airports from the two major parties.
These presidents include Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Illinois), Theodore Roosevelt (Dickinson, North Dakota), Dwight Eisenhower (Wichita, Kansas), John F. Kennedy (New York), Gerald R. Ford (Grand Rapids, Michigan), George Washington and Ronald Reagan (who share Virginia’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) and George HW Bush (Houston).
Additionally, in March 2012, Adams Field in Little Rock, Arkansas, was renamed Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.
Jimmy Carter has a regional airport named after him in Georgia. Obama? Not yet.
– Miami Herald
