Reports: Trump wants his name on an airport
MIAMI >> Ready to fly out of Donald J. Trump Airport in Palm Beach County?
Reports are circulating that the president, who is set to leave office on Jan. 20, has been asking aides and advisers what it takes to get an airport named in his honor, the Daily Beast reported.
Judd Deere, deputy White House press secretary, would not confirm to The Miami Herald whether these chats have taken place.
“Off record — we don’t comment on private conversations,” Deere said in an email Saturday.
But since Palm Beach International is just a few miles from Mar- aLago where Trump, his wife, Melania, and son, Barron, are expected to live, it seems the most likely airport he’d eye for a renaming in his honor if that is what he wants.
Can’t rule out Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-hollywood International, either. Both are also not far from Trump family outings in his proposed adopted home base.
Melania Trump reportedly toured Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale recently as a potential school for the couple’s teenage son, Barron.
Daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner bought a $30 million Indian Creek Village plot of land in Miami-dade County earlier in December.
Christian Ziegler, a top official with the Republican Party of Florida, suggested a Palm Beach International renaming to Trump International Airport. As such, it “would be the South Florida gateway for the former president’s adoring fans,” the Sun- Sentinel reported.
A spokeswoman for Palm Beach International told the Sun- Sentinel the airport hadn’t been approached about a name change.
South Florida could also figure as the location of a presidential library, reports say.
“We should absolutely be looking at Florida for a presidential library. It would be a fantastic economic generator,” Ziegler told the SunSentinel.