Florida State Representative Meg Weinberger has has filed a bill to rename Palm Beach airport after President Trump – PBI would become “Donald J. Trump International Airport.”
America’s greatest President deserves an airport that bears his name.
That’s why I have filed legislation to rename Palm Beach International Airport as Donald J. Trump International Airport.
A tribute to his extraordinary leadership and hometown roots. https://t.co/yj4l1ZrPpz
— Megforflorida (@megforflorida) November 3, 2025
After losing re-election in 2020, Donald Trump reportedly asked about having an airport named for him. However he was concerned that whatever airport is chosen, it needed to be nice enough.
At the start of the year and the new Congress Rep. Addison McDowell (R-NC) introduce a bill to rename Washington Dulles airport “Donald J. Trump International Airport.”
It seems like during the government shutdown, though, with TSA and air traffic control forced to work but not currently receiving pay, is a bad idea to name an airport for the President?
More broadly, though, naming airports for politicians is done often! Grover Norquist raised a ton of money for the ‘Reagan Legacy Project’ to have something named for Ronald Reagan in every state. That’s a key reason why Washington National airport was officially renamed Reagan National Airport. Trump has reportedly hoped for an organized effort like that around renamings for him.
San Jose’s airport is named for Norm Mineta, the Transportation Secretary who first oversaw the TSA (before there was a Department of Homeland Security). Little Rock airport is now the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport. Houston Intercontinental is named for Bush 41. New York’s Idlewild was renamed in honor of JFK. There’s Gerald Ford airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And Wichita’s airport is named for Dwight Eisenhower.
Republicans have the barest majority in both houses of Congress so they may not be able to push a Dulles renaming through, although I’ve long thought a grand compromise might be possible with Democrats by renamining Sioux City (IATA code: SUX) or Fresno (IATA code: FAT). Federal action seems out of the question, so a move by the Florida legislature to make PBI airport great again may be their best shot.
Fine, do it. We’ll change it to something else once this POS is out, and he will be out, hopefully sooner than later. Note how there’s no Nixon airport.
YUL airport was renamed in honour of Pierre Trudeau. That one sticks in my craw more, partly because I don’t fly through PBI all that often.
Airports (or bridges and buildings) should not be named for politicians. They’re supposed to be public servants, not heros.
The one that gets me is BWI being named for Thurgood Marshall. No one calls it that and LAS will always be McCarren to me and never Harry Reid airport
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If he wants, I will happily name a prison in every state after this president. Crime is the legacy he deserves.
None of these airports should be named after living people. George Washington had the right idea when he said he didn’t want his image on the new country’s coinage as it smacked of having a monarchy. The whole thing reminds me of the city of Tsaritsyn. You can’t find that on a map? Look for Stalingrad, renamed just after he took power. Don’t see that either? Now its Volgograd. We don’t need to stay on this road.
@George Romey — Our leaders should absolutely be public servants, and many are, just not this one; he’s only in it for himself, and staying out of prison, lest we forget those convictions and his many crimes against the American people.
@Retired Gambler — Tell us how you really feel about the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice. Feel free to further expose yourself, and use the ‘hard-r’ next time. Your hatred for your ‘perceived enemies’ is palpable. I call DCA both ‘DCA’ and ‘Reagan’ at times, regardless. Sheesh.
@JimC2 — There’s not locks here. Gary doesn’t micromanage. Ignore or engage. And nothing wrong with ‘just watching,’ either. We won’t ‘yuck’ your ‘yum,’ sir. You do you.
1990 – 1000%!!
George Romey – also 1000%!!
Ah hell no. Unless you find an appropriate broken down seedy airport that fits the name of a convicted felon..
@JS — Be wary of George; he may appear to ‘mean well’ here, but, he’s often promoting right-wing culture-war nonsense, like many of the others who frequent this blog.
Whether he explicitly intends to or not, George diminishes the actual heroes who do lead us like good stewards to their people.
So, I see no problem naming NYC’s airports after a great President, like John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or a great mayor, like Fiorello Henry La Guardia, who famously said: “There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.”
We need determined, non-partisan, effective leadership locally, federally, and globally, and it often starts with ‘getting stuff done.’ We should applaud and recognize those who actually do that. And we should not promote those who fail us.
‘Remember, remember… the fifth of November…’