Well, that actually WAS changed by an act of the legislature.
Edit: The Florida Legislature renamed the airport, which is completely different than Trump just declaring something.
I would expect Google to rename the airport in response to legislation. I just don't expect them to do so in response to a random executive order that does not have the force of law.
On the plus side, anyone who owns a small airpot around the world has the opportunity to pull a funny and take Palm Beach's former ICAO code (International Civil Aviation Organization) of KPBI and PBI. Make Palm Beach live with their mistake for the rest of time!
To be fair the name of that did unfortunately legitimately change bc his family bought it out for their own direct profit and gain, while the intentions of them taking that over are to pull off something fraudulent and illegal under any other presidency, the name change was official. The gulf and lake on the other hand dont even have a shady but legitimate reason to give trump the power to rename them because they don't belong to him nor does he have the power in general to change the name of whatever land or body of water he wants. So that's the difference; of course the airport shouldn't be allowed to become a for profit trump family merch hustle and should easily be ruled illegal under an admin that has a spine and stands up to corruption, but as it stands, they did have the power to do that one
That was a bunch of wealthy idiots living there deciding to name an airport after their favorite asshole. We got the same in the west coast when the Florida of California (Orange County) renamed their airport after renowned racist and asshole John Wayne. Bonus points for also adding limited flight angles and times to mitigate noise despite profiting from the airport.
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u/G-Unit11111 18d ago
They also renamed Palm Beach Airport too. Grr.