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The president has been slammed as a grifter in chief after it was revealed his company filed trademark applications for Donald J. Trump International Airport and similar names.
Palm Beach International Airport, just four miles west of Mar-a-Lago, is in the process of being renamed after the 79-year-old Trumpa name change that, if signed into law, would cost the airport $5.5 million to remake signs, uniforms, promotional products, equipment, and more.
While the measure is still working its way through the GOP-controlled Florida legislature, the president appears intent on ensuring he profits from the name change immediately.
Trademark attorney Josh Gerben, who first reported on the trademark applications, writes that Trumps holding company, DTTM Operations LLC, is asking to profit from a range of branded merchandise, including clothing, handbags, luggage, jewelry, watches, and tie clips associated with three variations of the likely soon-to-be-renamed Palm Beach airport.
That trio of names is President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Donald J. Trump International Airport, and simply DJT, which may be the airport code the White House hopes PBI will change to.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-teases-wild-plan-to-cash-in-on-airport-named-after-himself/
Florida Republican legislators are diehard members of the cult.
Initech
(108,164 posts)No I don't want airports or bridges or anything else named after the fucking turd.
hlthe2b
(113,337 posts)Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Orlando-Melbourne International Airport, or Southwest Florida International Airport. Bankrupt the Palm Beach (Drump) Airport and let the R's in their state legislature be left holding the bag politically.
Conjuay
(3,001 posts)N/T
FakeNoose
(40,933 posts)Conjuay
(3,001 posts)No thanks, Ill walk.
johnnyfins
(3,636 posts)I will not set foot in, nor will I spend money in FLA ever again.
Walleye
(44,193 posts)I think people will be burning their Maga hats.
They are sort of anachronistic items; tie clips?
Hey Joe
(523 posts)indentured servitude around their own childrens
necks to please and protect their orange
messiah and his profits.
🤪😵💫😖
FakeNoose
(40,933 posts)... but he didn't OWN any of them. He LEASED HIS NAME to those hotels, and his company signed contracts to manage the hotels. That was part of his regular business model, after all the bankruptcies he couldn't get mortgages any more. So owning new hotels became impossible.
He does own a few properties still, like the Bedminster Golf Resort in New Jersey and a couple others. What I'm getting at is that many of the management contracts have been torn up, and his name has been taken off a lot of buildings. Why? Because his name became so toxic after the disaster of his first term, and the failed coup attempt on January 6, 2021.
Now he's back in the White House and he's using it to enrich himself by grifting his own name ... and making Uncle Sam or certain state governments pay HIM for the privilege.
Kid Berwyn
(23,806 posts)...the rest of their natural days in orange jumpsuits working to pick up trash and litter along a backwater blacktop.

Detention Center work crews provide $1.5 million in free labor
https://www.thestarpress.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2017/05/23/new-program-allows-jail-inmates-to-work-outside/102063996/
For the first time in their perverted and demented lives, they can give something to the community.
Freddie
(10,080 posts)Gonna have to fly into Fort Lauderdale now which is huge, overwhelming and 1 hour away.
He tried this BS a couple years ago and Palm Beach County turned him down. What happened? Is there any hope?