No opportunity for graft left unused.
Trump has trademarked the name “Donald J. Trump International Airport”—and could soon generate millions of dollars for his family.
Palm Beach County commissioners will vote on Tuesday on whether to use taxpayer dollars to rename Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport the “President Donald J. Trump International Airport.”
They have now voted. They did not vote to tell Trump to fuck off.
If they approve the name change, a trademark deal between the county and DTTM Operations LLC—a company run by Donald Trump Jr.—will force the airport to run all airport-branded merchandise by the Trump family for approval.
Why? Why did the county make that deal? What is wrong with everyone?
Trump would become the first and only president with an airport named after him who has trademarked his own name in this manner.
While Trump’s companies have claimed that the trademark is only for legal protections, and that Trump won’t directly profit, the agreement signed by Trump and reviewed by the Miami Herald would leave loopholes for the president’s companies to sell “President Donald J. Trump Airport” branded merchandise off-site, and even gives the president control over biographical information included at the airport.
So why didn’t the Palm Beach commissioners just tell him to go soak his head? Or, better, to set his dick on fire?
The agreement also allows Trump to create the list of “approved retailers” from which airport stores have to buy Trump-branded items. If the county or any retail businesses want to sell DJT Airport merch, they have to buy those products “exclusively and directly from such entities designated by Licensor.” The licensor is DTTM—of which Trump Jr. is the president.
Just say no. Everybody just say no. Tell these relentless greedy pimps to go far away and never come back.
Doubts about the ethics of the deal were raised months ago, with Palm Beach lawmakers stating over email that the airport renaming would confer “a commercial benefit upon the president and his companies.” Even still, the deal may very well be approved on Tuesday, giving perhaps the most blatantly corrupt president yet another free pass.
It was, so it did. We can never get out of the sewer.
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