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Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family

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It was a week in which one prominent name in aviation, Spirit Airlines, disappeared , killed in the company’s own admission by high fuel prices resulting from Donald Trump’s war in Iran. Within days, however, another moniker was already flying high in industry circles: the president’s own. The newly-branded President Donald J Trump international airport, less than five miles from Mar-a-Lago, his gilded waterfront Florida mansion, joins a glut of other entities, including passports , street signs , national parks passes , performing arts centers and golden immigration visas , retitled to satiate the commander-in-chief’s addiction to aggrandizement. Naturally, Tuesday’s vote by a surprisingly bipartisan group of commissioners to hand over trademark and commercial rights of the former Palm Beach international airport to the county’s most notorious resident comes with another lucrative enrichment opportunity for Trump and his family.…

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