<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/donald-trump" rel="" target="" title="Donald Trump"><span>Donald Trump</span></a><span> lands in Florida for his almost weekly trips to his country club Mar-a-Lago, he'll be seeing his name even more than usual.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Because </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/passenger-lands-plane-after-pilot-became-sick/0745ba86-b6f4-4b0e-a9fc-7cc992879984" rel="" target="" title="Palm Beach International Airport"><span>Palm Beach International Airport</span></a><span> will soon be renamed after the sitting president.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Legislation to rename the airport was signed by </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/who-is-ron-desantis-florida-governor-next-president-2024-betting-market-donald-trump-republican/b2653e9a-8b1a-485b-b2c7-64db36ade6ca" rel="" target="" title="Florida Governor Ron DeSantis"><span>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-signature-us-currency-dollars-money-treasurer-usa-politics-news/1e7cf4cd-6a06-48a0-a2e1-43656f80895a"><strong><span>Donald Trump to put his name on all US paper money</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The change will kick in on July 1.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When the president arrives in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/florida" rel="" target="" title="Florida"><span>Florida</span></a><span> to spend time at </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-florida-election-results-mar-a-lago-emily-gregory-us-politics-news/70f84489-55ba-4d49-a33f-0c8937c953b9" rel="" target="" title="Mar-a-Lago"><span>Mar-a-Lago</span></a><span>, he lands at Palm Beach International Airport.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>From there it is a short drive down President Donald J Trump Boulevard to his club.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-airport-renamed-after-president-palm-beach-florida-usa-news/48ef41f6-da44-4ced-b156-21b5b6fb2cb8" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump and the airport have an ignominious history. In 2015 he filed a $US100 million lawsuit to limit planes flying over his club.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When he became president he dropped the lawsuit and instituted a no-fly zone over the area.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Palm Beach is at the northern end of the long narrow metropolitan area that runs down to Miami. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-florida-election-results-mar-a-lago-emily-gregory-us-politics-news/70f84489-55ba-4d49-a33f-0c8937c953b9"><strong><span>Trump on shaky ground after Democrats win Mar-a-Lago seat</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Federal Aviation Administration will also need to sign off on the name change, but there is nothing to suggest it will stand in the way.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While it is not uncommon for airports to be named after US presidents, it usually happens long after they have left office.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wichita named its airport after hometown hero </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-june-18-what-happened-on-this-day/d1f1394d-feda-44ca-a06d-2c15a7361941" rel="" target="" title="Dwight Eisenhower"><span>Dwight Eisenhower</span></a><span> four years after his death. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/sara-jane-moore-who-tried-to-assassinate-president-gerald-ford-in-1975-dies-at-95/6a642993-7848-417e-a727-34a85221c307" rel="" target="" title="Gerald Ford"><span>Gerald Ford</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/george-hw-bush" rel="" target="" title="George HW Bush"><span>George HW Bush</span></a><span> both had airports named after them long after they left office.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Had </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-contempt-congress-charges-vote-prison-time-epstein-files-latest/d5847f43-ae9d-48fd-8d53-c82c89983add" rel="" target="" title="Hillary Clinton"><span>Hillary Clinton</span></a><span> had won in 2016, she would enter office with an airport already named after her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-suspicious-futures-trades-treason-paul-krugman-corruption-chris-murphy/9bd90b2b-b13e-4cea-a0d3-250bc43ad3d5"><strong><span>$800m in trades before Trump announcement 'is treason'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Four years earlier, the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was renamed Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It is typical for presidents to resist things being named after them while they are in office.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In 1974, Congress passed a bill to rename a federal courthouse in Ford's home town after the sitting president.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ford vetoed the bill.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I know of no Federal office buildings that have been named for a President while still in office," Ford wrote in a memo.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This legislation might begin a precedent I believe it best not to establish."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-it-takes-two-to-taco-usa-iran-war-latest-news/420dd38d-8d0a-45bf-91df-72b06326fe23"><strong><span>It takes two to TACO: Why Trump can't end war with Iran by himself</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><em><span>NEVER MISS A STORY:</span></em></strong><span> </span><strong><em><span>Get your breaking news and 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