DeSantis signs bill to rename Palm Beach airport after Trump

Washington — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure Monday to rebrand the Palm Beach International Airport aft President Trump. 

The airport's caller name, the President Donald J. Trump International Airport, is acceptable to instrumentality effect connected July 1. 

"Changing an airdrome sanction is simply a section contented and the FAA does not o.k. airdrome sanction changes," The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday successful a statement. "However, the FAA indispensable implicit immoderate administrative tasks to see updating navigational charts and databases."

Mr. Trump's household concern filed a trademark application for the sanction successful February, according to United States Patent and Trademark Office records. The exertion besides listed galore travel-related items and merchandise, including luggage, formation suits and integrative footwear protectors for the airdrome information screening process.

The Trump Organization said the trademark exertion was prompted by the Florida bill, but that it did not question to nett disconnected the sanction change. 

"To beryllium clear, the President and his household volition not person immoderate royalty, licensing fee, oregon fiscal information whatsoever from the projected airdrome renaming," the institution said successful a connection successful February. 

Eric Trump, the president's son, celebrated the rebrand connected Monday, writing connected X that helium was "proud to person played a tiny relation successful making this happen."  

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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