Yet more Trump family profiteering: Renaming Palm Beach Int'l Airport

Excerpted from The Daily Beast
By Leigh Kimmins

A proposal to rename Palm Beach International Airport as President Donald J. Trump International Airport cleared the Florida House and moved through a Florida Senate committee in February, just four days after a Trump family–linked private company trademarked the name.

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The Miami Herald reports that Trump’s businesses and family members could benefit from the taxpayer-funded airport name change.

That’s because the agreement isn’t limited to Palm Beach County. While Trump’s companies agreed not to take royalties from Trump-branded items sold at the airport, the deal allows them to sell similar airport-branded products elsewhere for profit, according to trademark attorney Josh Gerben.

It also gives Trump’s company control over who supplies those products. Airport shops must buy merchandise from a list of “approved retailers” chosen by the company, and any business that wants to sell items using the airport’s name has to purchase them directly from those designated sellers.

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