{"id":2572284,"date":"2026-02-21T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-a-donald-j-trump-airport-on-its-way-big-move-from-trump-family-suggests-its-coming\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:30:01","slug":"is-a-donald-j-trump-airport-on-its-way-big-move-from-trump-family-suggests-its-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-a-donald-j-trump-airport-on-its-way-big-move-from-trump-family-suggests-its-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a Donald J. Trump Airport on Its Way? Big Move from Trump Family Suggests It&#8217;s Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-a-donald-j-trump-airport-on-its-way-big-move-from-trump-family-suggests-its-coming%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2572284&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The trump Organization has filed applications with the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-joe-rogan-beat-cancel-culture-in-2022\/\" title=\"It\u2019s Official: Joe Rogan Beat Cancel Culture In 2022\">secure exclusive rights<\/a> to use the president\u2019s name on airports and related items, including Palm Beach International Airport, buses, umbrellas, travel bags, and flight suits. The filings appear to be in response to a Florida bill that would rename the Palm Beach airport after Donald Trump, and they cover proposed names such as President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Donald J. Trump International Airport, and DJT. The company says it does not intend to charge royalties or fees and that the move is meant to protect the Trump name from \u201cbad actors,\u201d given how widely it is trademarked. Trademark expert Josh Gerben described the filings as unprecedented, noting that a sitting president\u2019s private company has never <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >sought trademark rights<\/a> before such naming decisions. The article notes this branding push comes amid broader Trump branding efforts abroad and amid debates over whether the presidency should be tied to commerce, with critics arguing it coudl profit from the office.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; The Trump family company has filed to trademark the use of the president&rsquo;s name on airports but says it doesn&rsquo;t plan on charging a fee &mdash; at least for a proposed renaming of one near his Florida home.<\/p>\n<p>Applications filed by the Trump Organization with the federal trademark office are seeking exclusive rights to use the president&rsquo;s name on airports and dozens of related things found there, from buses shuttling passengers to umbrellas and travel bags to flight suits.<\/p>\n<p>The filings come amid debate in Florida over a state bill to name the Palm Beach airport after Trump and a dispute over funding of a tunnel between New York and New Jersey that is tied up with proposals that both it and Dulles International Airport in Virginia bear his name.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Organization said that the applications were triggered by the Florida bill and that it didn&rsquo;t seek any profit &mdash; only protection against &ldquo;bad actors&rdquo; given that the Trump name is the &ldquo;most infringed trademark in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To be clear, the President and his family will not receive any royalty, licensing fee, or financial consideration whatsoever from the proposed airport renaming,&rdquo; the company said it in a statement, referring to what is now called the Palm Beach International Airport near Trump&rsquo;s Mar-a-Lago club.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The company didn&rsquo;t respond when asked if it would charge royalties for the use of the name at other airports in the future, or on merchandise listed for protection in the filings.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer who uncovered the filings over the weekend, said the applications were the first of their kind he&rsquo;s ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While presidents and public officials have had landmarks named in their honor, a sitting president&rsquo;s private company has never in the history of the United States sought trademark rights in advance of such naming,&rdquo; Gerben wrote on his blog. &ldquo;These are trademark filings that are completely unprecedented.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another break with the past: Presidents usually have to wait for years after they&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jfk-most-popular-recent-former-president-poll-finds\/\" title=\"Poll finds JFK is the most popular recent former president.\">ve left office<\/a> to get an airport named after them &mdash; or die.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton had to wait 11 years, Ronald Reagan nine. For Gerald Ford, it took 22 years. JFK was quickest &mdash; just one month after his assassination.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump gets his airport, it will join a long line of organizations and buildings renamed for him in recent months, including the Kennedy Center performing arts venue, a road outside Mar-a-Lago dubbed the President Donald J. Trump Boulevard, and a yet-to-be-built new class of battleships.<\/p>\n<p>The airport trademark applications filed by a family company unit called DTTM Operations with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are for the use of three names &mdash; President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Donald J. Trump International Airport, and DJT.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump company&rsquo;s claim that it is the most infringed trademark in the world could not be quickly confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Gucci has faced tens of thousands of copycat items since the early 1970s when Trump was starting out in Manhattan real estate. Prada has been active suing companies for years, and Rolex battles fake watches by the millions.<\/p>\n<p>The family has been on a branding spree in the past year, putting the Trump name on towers, golf resorts, and residential developments in Dubai, India, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam. The company has also been selling Trump-branded electric guitars, Bibles, and sneakers, ventures that also fall under the DTTM unit.<\/p>\n<p>In response to criticism that he and his family are profiting off the presidency, Trump has said that his business is held in trust by his sons and that he has no day-to-day involvement in the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Western Journal has not reviewed this Associated Press story prior to publication. 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The company says it does not plan to charge royalties or fees for the renaming\u2014at least for Palm Beach\u2014and says the move is to prevent misuse of the Trump name, which it describes as the most infringed trademark in the world. The filings come as Florida weighs a bill to name the Palm Beach airport after Trump and as there\u2019s a separate dispute over funding for a tunnel project tied to airport naming proposals in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The applications\u2014submitted by a Trump Organization unit called DTTM Operations\u2014cover three name variants: President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Donald J. Trump International Airport, and DJT. Trump\u2019s team says the filings are unprecedented because a sitting president\u2019s private company has never sought trademark rights before such a naming. Historically, airports are named after presidents long after they leave office. If approved, the Palm Beach airport would join other Trump-branded entities and projects that have emerged recently, including a renamed road near Mar-a-Lago and other branding efforts worldwide. The company claims the Trump name is highly protected and says the business is held in trust by his sons, with no day-to-day involvement by Trump himself. The article notes that verifying how \u201cinfringed\u201d the mark is would be difficult, citing well-known brands that combat counterfeits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2572285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eaf784a9d92346fe9c8e1b9bd070862a-scaled-e1771394445906.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6283,70344,3902,4133,5894],"class_list":["post-2572284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-airport","tag-donald-trump-2","tag-infrastructure","tag-news","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eaf784a9d92346fe9c8e1b9bd070862a-scaled-e1771394445906.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572288,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572284\/revisions\/2572288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2572285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}