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Welcome to Palm Beach: this is Trump’s America, and don’t we know it

Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News·@MichaelKoziol·2 months ago
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Washington: When Saturday Night Live joked last year that Donald Trump was “invading every aspect of your life”, it wasn’t kidding. If it wasn’t enough that the man is constantly on your television and in your social media feed, soon he will be on your boarding pass. At least, if you’re flying into Palm Beach, Florida. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that will change the name of Palm Beach International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport. From July 1, pending federal regulatory approval, the airport will no longer be known by the abbreviation PBI but by those ubiquitous initials: DJT. The list of institutions to which the Trump name is being affixed is becoming as long as one of his speeches. A six-kilometre stretch of road between the same airport and the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort was recently renamed the President Donald J. Trump Boulevard. A new “Trump-class” navy battleship is in development.…

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