24 posts from Saturday, May 23, 2026

I don't think people really understand how challenging it is to get a notoriously blue area like Palm Beach County to get on board with renaming the airport in the name of President Donald Trump. I know how hostile it is because I ran for Congress there, so why don't you just explain how this idea came to your mind and what the process was like renaming the airport. Well, I have to start by saying, you know, we're only as good as our village and thank goodness I have a really good one, including my class in the Florida House and our speaker and his chief of staff and everybody who really got on board. You know, in the beginning it was conversation was this has never been done in history. It's not something that we're sure we can do and, you know, we just kept kind of chipping away and figuring out a way to make this happen. You know, before I even brought it to leadership in the House, I spoke to, you know, people in Palm Beach County and then the airport and said, "Listen, this is going to happen in our lifetime." In my opinion, if it happens now while President Trump is in office, it's really just going to bring a lot to our county and lift up our county in an airport that we're supposed to be an international airport, but we're clearly not an international airport. Well, there's plans, of course, from my understanding to expand the airport. Perhaps you can talk about those plans because it is now going to be transformed from my understanding into an international airport with a massive renovation plan. And it seems like the Democrats are trying to dishonestly pin those renovation costs on the president, acting like, oh, it's going to cost this much money to rename things because of the president when they were already planning on doing these massive renovations at Palm Beach International to make it a true international airport because of the international and global significance. Since it now is the hub and the location of Mar-a-Lago and President Trump's golf resorts in Palm Beach County, where we've had global summits with world leaders, President Trump has literally ordered airstrikes, right? He ordered the airstrike, the killing of Qasem Soleimani from Mar-a-Lago. There's so many impactful historical events that have happened there, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be an international airport. And if you're going to have a Palm Beach County airport, which is like one of the tiniest airports in the world, which is why it's such a great airport, you should absolutely name it after a president since it's President Donald J. Trump who put that tiny little airport on the map to begin with. I mean, there's just so much that this will lift up our county. I think I read recently that even just private planes alone in Palm Beach County, we have more air traffic than any other place in the United States. I mean, we have four airports in Palm Beach County. We should be utilizing all four of those airports. I mean, one of the other airports in my district, well, two actually, North County, and there's one in the glades. I mean, we could be using those airports for many of these private planes instead of going to counties on either side of Palm Beach County. So I'm really hoping that, you know, a lot of what this brings to our county helps lift up these airports as well. I mean, the fact that the family has agreed to waive the trademark is amazing. You know, I'm not sure how much you travel throughout the country, but you know that you're probably not going to find anything that says Palm Beach International Airport in any other place in the world, but you definitely going to see something that has a globally recognized name as Trump on a brand. So I think that this will bring huge ... I can't wait to buy merchandise from President at Donald J. Trump International.

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