Palm Beach Airport in Florida officially renamed after Trump

Palm Beach in the U.S. state of Florida officially renamed its airport after U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, becoming the latest in a series of institutions, buildings, government programs, military ships, and financial organizations to be named after the Republican, Reuters reports, writes UNN.

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The renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport was a loud hint of support for the Republican leader in Florida, where his lavish Mar-a-Lago resort is located.

"I don't think there is anyone more synonymous with Palm Beach than Donald Trump, maybe in all of Florida," Trump's son Eric Trump said in an interview with Fox News.

Since he took office for a second term at the White House last year, Trump's name has been placed on a planned class of U.S. Navy warships, a visa program for wealthy foreigners, a government prescription drug website, and federal savings accounts for children.

He has also sought an ambitious transformation of Washington. While Trump's name was added to the U.S. Institute of Peace building, courts rejected an attempt to attach it to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a law in March to rename the airport in the southeastern Florida city after Trump.

The airport's three-letter Federal Aviation Administration identifier was changed on Thursday from PBI to DJT. But passengers will need to use PBI to book flights until August 18, the airport said on its website, after which it will be reflected on baggage tags, tickets, and airline booking systems.

The airport said the name change cost $5.5 million.

Eric Trump and his family were on board the first flight to land at the newly named airport in the pre-dawn hours on a private plane.

"There was no way I was going to let UPS be the first plane to land," Eric Trump said in an interview with Fox & Friends.

JetBlue Airways is the largest carrier in Palm Beach and, together with Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, operates about two-thirds of flights.

Other U.S. airports have been named after politicians, including Little Rock Airport in Arkansas, named after former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but it retained the airport code LIT. Other airports, including in Las Vegas and San Jose, California, have been renamed after former lawmakers.