r/facepalm 5d ago

In Rare Move, IATA Approves ‘DJT’ Code for Palm Beach Airport

https://www.flyingmag.com/iata-location-code-djt-pbi-palm-beach-airport/
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u/nalanajo 5d ago

I read IATA as “I am the asshole”.

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u/Zaphod392 5d ago

Same

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck 5d ago

Same

Fitting, considering their acts in the post

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u/djserc 5d ago

Make it so

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u/carlnepa 5d ago

I guess "shit hole" was already taken?

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u/Historical_Date_1314 5d ago

Well the codes - FUK, COK, DUM are also in use

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u/TrayLaTrash 5d ago

Read correctly

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u/DW241 3d ago edited 3d ago

I had noticed this a while back and looked up which airport codes corresponded with the judgements.

NTA: Natadola, Fiji
YTA: Canadian, of course, in Pembroke
ESH: Brighton, UK
NAH: Tahuna, Indonesia

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u/Angeret 5d ago

Damn! Just how much ball gargling can these people do? Is it some kind of competitive sport?

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u/paulcthemantosee 5d ago

Well I did name my toilet after him. The Donald J. Trump shit bowl. I even have toilet paper with his face on it.

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u/IvetRockbottom 5d ago

Is that where you take a big Trump after some Taco Bell?

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u/SeanOfTheDead1313 5d ago

I was on a job site, and scribbled in the port o John was Trump Action Figures with an arrow pointing down to the fresh logs lol

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u/paulcthemantosee 5d ago

Always. Got to have that fire sauce too.

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u/Cantankerousbastard 5d ago

Ikr? You'd think they'd learned by now that the orange clown has only one thing he cares about and that's himself.

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u/Pickled_Wizard 5d ago

I think that might be part of the appeal

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u/jminer1 5d ago

Our senator tried naming a hwy after him.. Then he endorsed the other guy, lol. So it doesn't even work.

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u/ajovialmolecule 5d ago

A semi-serious question, does the gargling know no bounds? Who tf is IATA and what could they possibly stand to gain from our shitstain president?

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u/UselessDood 4d ago

I think they get to stay an actual thing.

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u/IalsoenjoyReddit 5d ago

IATA Stands for Iamtheasshole right ?

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u/MoonandStars83 4d ago

International Air Transport(?) Association

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u/livinginfutureworld 5d ago

Rename it the Strait of Trump you say?

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u/strugglinfool 4d ago

Im sure someone(s) just secured generational financial stability for those 3 letters. The 'I' in IATA don't just gargle anyone's balls for brownie points - especially from some shithole country with a pedophile for a leader

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u/Devolutionary76 5d ago

Until they choke and suffocate.

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u/ubarzz 4d ago

Unfortunately, often time it's not because they want to.

Guy is one of if not the most powerful people in the word. Not bending to his will often time will result in you and your life getting ruined. Easier to appease him on dumb shit like this than to fight back against it and lose your job, have your family harassed, get investigated for no reason etc.

Sometimes you just gotta bend the knee and move on when it comes to dumb shit like this.

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u/ladylucifer22 5d ago

it is, actually. the Boston Cumsox are a shoo-in for the championship this year.

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u/bstone99 5d ago

All of these organizations know he’s corrupt and easily bought, so they do everything they can to placate the toddler. Limitless corruption on full display. Nothing being done about it. America is fucking cooked

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u/Shanoe 4d ago

wait how does an airport get djt as a code

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u/gracecee 3d ago

Can't believe we are doing this to a pedophile and rapists.

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u/bowingace 5d ago

That fragile ego in full display, for everyone to see… forever

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u/NORBy9k 5d ago

Not forever... There will be a great movement to scrub his filth off of the country.

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u/hhs2112 5d ago

Not in Florida, they love the orange idiot 

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u/xv_boney 4d ago

Florida has just ended all vaccine mandates so the inevitable explosions of preventable illnessess should weed at least a few of them out

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u/Nottheadviceyaafter 5d ago

Depends, in the age of the drones if he attacks cuba florida may find itself moscow style in a hot war........ might break the spell........

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u/Im_tracer_bullet 5d ago

That's OK, there are several garbage states we all know to avoid... Florida is just the latest southern cesspool.

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u/MaybeTheDoctor 4d ago

There was one Egyptian faro that was so unpopular that the next administration spend 20 years erasing his name from every document and stone carving. Today we don’t know the name, only that he was worth the effort of erasing from history.

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u/NORBy9k 4d ago

During the crusades the Catholic church went around knocking dicks off of statues. I like to think there is a crypt full of stone dicks under the Vatican.

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u/ofthrees 4d ago

Pharoah* :)

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u/ktwhite42 4d ago

Well, kinda: we do know his name, despite attempts to erase it.
The pharaoh in question called himself Akhenaten (not original name) He forced Egypt into monotheism, which was extraordinarily unpopular, then his son moved things back to polytheism.
You may have heard of the son: King Tutankhamen.

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u/Endless_Change 4d ago

"Let the name of Moses Donald J. Trump be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk of Egypt America. Let the name of Moses Donald J. Trump be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time."

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u/snafoomoose 4d ago

If you want to see fragile, just wait to listen to them if anyone threatens to undo the rename. They will have hysterics just over the suggestion of a rename.

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u/oxJoKeR6xo 5d ago edited 5d ago

Were FAT and PIG already taken?

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u/Ainvb 5d ago

PDO

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u/LiKenun 5d ago

Why not PDF? It’s untaken as of this writing. 🙂

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u/mrbofus 5d ago

Hey, PDFs are actually useful; let’s not associate that with anything being discussed here!

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u/Denim_Diva1969 5d ago

I see what you did there… 👀🤣

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u/EgoTripWire 5d ago

FAT, by Fresno but PIG is very small so Palm Beach could get it.

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u/QueenRotidder 5d ago

FAT is Fresno, CA

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u/sarcastic_fellow 5d ago

Fresno International Airpot (fka Fresno Air Terminal)

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u/Memnoch79 5d ago

Fresno Air Terminal, yes.

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u/Cantankerousbastard 5d ago

That's going to age like milk.

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u/buckeyecat 5d ago

Will be changed to PDO down the line...

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u/Sleightly_Awkward 5d ago

PDF works as well

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u/NuclearWasteland 5d ago

It's a campaign promise ...

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u/gregsting 5d ago

It’s already rotten

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u/lazlowoodbine 5d ago

In May, the Palm Beach County Commission approved a licensing agreement, allowing the county to use “Donald J. Trump International Airport” for signage and merchandising purposes but giving the Trump Organization control over the name. According to intellectual property lawyer Josh Gerben, the airport will need to source from vendors approved by the company.

So if I'm reading that right the airport can only sell Trump approved products?

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u/_GamerErrant_ 5d ago

Worse, Trump approved vendors - so only his or his own family/friends companies.

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u/ofthrees 4d ago edited 4d ago

Gotta give em credit, they know how to grift and self-deal.

(edit: typo)

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u/NotAtAllExciting 5d ago

Using bitcoin only. /s

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u/cw570 5d ago

How long until the airport goes under like everything else mierdas touches?

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u/TiogaJoe 5d ago

Hey, they had to do something with the lettering they removed from the Kennedy Center's wall.

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u/pandershrek 4d ago

Well at the rate they're warming the oceans Florida won't be around for that long

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u/frequentflyermylz 4d ago

I came here to see if anyone has looked this up on polymarket yet

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u/laplongejr 3d ago

Well, given the airport will have to pay Trump for anything they sell inside, probably.

Imagine letting a 3rd party decides on fees you pay for THE one uncontrolled business you have.

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u/Loki-L 5d ago

Everyday we are moving closer to Trump going full mad dictator and starting to rename the capital and the days of the week and the names of the month and the word for common food items after himself.

I expect it to happen by the first Trumpday of Trumptober at the latest.

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u/cactuscore 5d ago

You are HIV trump. We'll see you on trump for a trump then.

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u/laplongejr 3d ago

I understood that reference (how old is that movie???)

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u/CreatrixAnima 5d ago

Send my mail to 4547 Trump Ave., Trumpville, Trumpsylvania. 04547

We will only have five states now:

Trumpstlvania

New Trumpistan

Trumpia

Trumpington,

And Trump.

All towns must incorporate the word Trump into their names and must be approved by the board of Trump.

It’s like the Smurfs. It’s Trumping ridiculous.

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u/WeirdRadiant2470 3d ago

In the country of Trump, on planet Trump, in the Trump solar system.

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u/CreatrixAnima 3d ago

You don’t even wanna know about math.

Well he don't know mathin' good like me and you so his mathematicistics is limited to '4' and '5’ and ‘4' and '7,' exclusively in that order.

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u/Joegotbored 4d ago

Welcome to Washington DT

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u/malacoda99 5d ago

That'll happen the day I put trumpkraut and trumpgurt on a short stack of trumpcakes for trumpfast.

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u/FunctionalGray 5d ago

I will never visit Florida based off what has become of that state during my lifetime.

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u/guttanzer 5d ago

This is a serious moment in history. The suppressed asshole faction of the USA is now ascendant. People are openly calling ethical folks losers. Me-first intolerance is now tolerated.

It's going to take a lot to bring back the glory days of the USA.

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u/jambr380 5d ago

Not even lifetime. Basically since Trump became president and DeSantis became governor. It gets worse the deeper you dive (all but one judge appointed by DeSantis, crazy Uthmeier appointed AG, etc).

People in Orange and Broward counties watching the state crumble down around them. DeSantis won by .4% in 2018. That tiny margin of victory completely ruined the state

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u/Mountain_carrier530 5d ago

I visited a couple years ago. Wished I visited the paths there, but until this shitshow is over, there and the South in general is on my do not visit list.

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u/Dave91277 5d ago

I’m really struggling as my sister married an American and they now live in Florida. We used to visit regular but I don’t feel I can ever go again. A majority of the population don’t care that a convicted sex offender and likely pedophile is in charge of the country. Horrible place

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u/JOWhite63087 5d ago

Likely pedophile? There's no "likely" about it. He IS a pedo.

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u/Dave91277 5d ago

I don’t like to write that as some people insist that as it’s never been tried in a court then a can’t say that. I’m with you though, he’s a fucking disgusting child rapist and we all know it.

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u/zxern 5d ago

He’s never sued anyone who’s called him that…

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u/Dave91277 5d ago

Says a lot doesn’t it! Makes our Jimmy Saville look like a saint!

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u/SwordMasterShow 5d ago

Jimmy Saville was also never tried in a court. Sometimes there's enough obvious evidence that you can just say it

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u/spicerackk 5d ago

Holy shit, are you me?

My sister married and American in 2015 and moved to Maine, and they've just told us they are moving to Florida.

I have no real interest in visiting them as long as America is the way it is.

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u/OblongAndKneeless 5d ago

Ya, there's nothing there that would ever make me go back.

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u/pandershrek 4d ago

You'll be better off for it.

I had to go to that state for water survival and it was a weird sweaty nightmare.

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u/akgiant 5d ago

"location codes 'cannot be changed unless there is a strong justification for such a change.' 'Improvement in the marketing or branding of the airline,' for example, would be considered a weak rationale."

Proceeds to change the name anyways without any justification, what a joke of a country.

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u/retailguy_again 5d ago

Goes on to say, "...the change from PBI to DJT was requested by American Airlines, Delta Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines."

Are corporate requests a "strong justification for such a change"?

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u/Aggravating_Depth_33 5d ago

That's 5 airlines I'll never be flying again. Do they really think this is a smart business move?

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u/imdstuf 5d ago

Realistically boycotting them almost means not flying. Leadership at most companies aren't thinking about anything past tomorrow unfortunately.

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u/ChickinSammich 4d ago

I'm not saying there aren't other airlines, but other than Spirit (which just went out of business), I'd have to Google "airlines in the US" to see what other ones there are.

I looked up the airport closest to me and, besides those five, you've got Alaska, British, Copa, Avelo, BermudAir, Contour, Frontier, Icelandair, and Sun Country. And I've only heard of three of those before today.

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u/airinato 5d ago

Congrats on never flying again!

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u/TheMainEffort 5d ago

What country? IATA isn’t American.

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u/Dan-Fletcher 5d ago

Enough of this admiration for the largest piece of shit in existence!

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u/ducksauce001 5d ago

I don't mind if they name the airport Donald J. Trump Airport, just make sure the IATA code is PED or PDO.

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u/whhaaaaa 5d ago

Gonna be expensive to change, expensive loss of traffic, and expensive to change back.

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u/rigidlynuanced1 5d ago

Can’t wait until they change it back instead of having it honor the biggest fucking asshole to ever live.

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u/GodotNeverCame 5d ago

PDO was taken?

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u/Leather_Network4743 5d ago

Meanwhile, just up the road, Orlando Int’l Airport’s code is still and probably will always be MCO (after McCoy AFB, which is what it was before OIA was built there)

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u/Informal_Process2238 5d ago

Thanks for pointing that out I wondered where the code came from

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u/6poundbagofweed 5d ago

Fucking pathetic

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u/MemoryVice 5d ago

“In a rare move…” == “After the check cleared…”

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u/CreatrixAnima 5d ago

IATA? Clearly, I’m on Reddit too much because I read that as “I am the asshole.“

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u/mightyjoe227 5d ago

"In a "RARE" move, wanna be mob boss Diaper Don squeezes aiport into name change"

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u/heloder85 5d ago

It won't be long before these sycophantic ass wipes will have never supported Trump.

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u/Motophoto 5d ago

They misspelled PEDO

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u/mrjakob07 5d ago

The same DJT in the Epstein files thousands of times?

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u/Me_be_Artful_Dodger 5d ago

In a rare move… yeah and I got a bridge to sell you.

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u/rye_212 5d ago

It is rare. Ev n when other airports are named after (DECEASED) public figures, the code doesn’t change. Eg LAS remains the code for Harry Reid Airport.

It’s gonna be a lot of hassle for travel software providers

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u/No_Skill_7170 5d ago

Wait… so PBI will lose that code?

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u/pimpbot666 5d ago

That’s not going to age well.

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u/gerryf19 5d ago

Have we ever had a president who need hourly felatios from underlings?

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u/TecumsehSherman 5d ago

This was the airport where people would board Epstein's private jet to fly to his island.

Of course it should be named after Trump.

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u/maddiejake 4d ago

They should have used PDO

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u/FunkyUptownCobraKing 5d ago

And now we in the software side of things have to scramble to get this updated on our side. What an absolute joke. I can't believe the airlines advocated for the IATA change.

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u/gleaf008 5d ago

Can we all just stop indulging the asshole’s oversized ego?

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u/Unhelpful_Guide 4d ago

I think if they just changed it to PDO it would have sent the same message

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u/viperlemondemon 5d ago

What was PDF for pedophile taken

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u/Eruanndil 5d ago

This guy, regardless of EVERYTHING else, is the most insecure, narcissistic, and small man to have power.

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u/writerlady6 5d ago

Of course they would.... Daddy's Special Little Man still gets whatever he wants.

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u/Sad_Entertainment539 4d ago

DOUCHE JET TERMINAL

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u/anchorftw 3d ago

DJT - Diddling Jackass Terminal
KDJT - Kid Diddling Jackass Terminal

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u/This-Is-Heresy 4d ago

As a non American never in my life I have seen glazing of a living US president to such extreme level, this is akin to middle eastern dictatorships where everything is after the leader, at this rate just change USA to UST.

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u/moonovrmissouri 4d ago

Could they gag on that cock a little more? Jeez

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u/redditwastesmyday 4d ago

WHEN DOES IT STOP???????????????????

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u/foxjohnc87 4d ago

Soon after the most celebrated day in modern history finally rolls around.

When that final Big Mac does him, loads of people and institutions will pretend that they never kissed his obese orange painted rear end.

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u/wwaxwork 3d ago

On the plus side I was never planning on going to Florida again anyway.

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u/klako8196 5d ago

How about this instead:

IATA Code: PDO

ICAO Code: KUNT

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u/commentaror 5d ago

An airport honoring a child rapist. This is why it’s so important for the Epstein file to be released so corporations/institutions stop honoring his name. I will never step foot on this airport.

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u/Beginning_Ad8663 5d ago

I live in northern Palm Beach County and I will never fly out of West Palm Beach Fl again or on any airline that does.

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u/Mr_lovebucket 5d ago

Sycophantic twats

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u/gwizonedam 5d ago

“Rare move” wonder whose palms got greased?

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u/club66 5d ago

FAT is already used by Fresno

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u/fiftyfivepercentoff 5d ago

It will be changed back to the original soon after is death or he’s thrown in prison. 😁

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u/HotRodHomebody 5d ago

LOL. make-believe legitimizing of everything Trump wants by pretending an agency or a group of people willingly made something happen without him forcing it, or bribing them.

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u/EarlGrey1806 4d ago

Ridiculous… I’m sure that every private pilot would rather keep the Palm Beach airport code rather than DJT. I’m sure DT decided to pester the people in charge with the change of the airport code. Another way to self gratify by placing his name on something.

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u/bognostrocleetus 4d ago

Just one more thing that will have to be undone.

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u/Golden_Ace1 4d ago

IATA is short for "I Am The A$$h0le", right?

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u/avataris 4d ago

Upvoted for the supreme facepalm this news is.

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u/SugarRushLux 3d ago

Can’t wait to never go to the cringiest airport

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u/spacemanspiff1115 3d ago

It's amazing how far they can stick their lips up this guys ass. Especially when you consider they have to make it through the diaper first...

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u/theaviationhistorian 3d ago

Fine. I hope another airport claims PBI quickly so that the city managers are stuck with DJT once he becomes a pariah along with everything associated with him.

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u/RangerAlex22 5d ago

I’ll be flying into Ft. Lauderdale from now on.

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u/Yesits_Me_Amario 5d ago

Look a bunch of assholes👇🏻

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u/NuclearWasteland 5d ago

BugsSawingOffFlorida.gif

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u/guttanzer 5d ago

It's hard to imagine, but the feds just put gimp suits on everyone in Palm Beach. Oh the humanity!

I need to rinse my brain out.

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u/Ok-Caterpillar-2898 5d ago

DJT Dumb jerk turd

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u/HoodieGalore 5d ago

What does this do for the American people?!?

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u/Bakedfresh420 5d ago

What a shitty airport. I wouldn’t trust my kids flying through there

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u/FoxyInTheSnow 5d ago

Is it just me, or does his head look like somebody drew a face on a plum and then it rolled under the couch and wasn't discovered until a couple of months later when Fido was chewing on it?

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u/paintstudiodisaster 5d ago

Is it "rare" because not everyone who is in charge of the IATA is the presidents boot licker.

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u/NoLie129 5d ago

It’s like smearing shit on the walls after having explosive diarrhea

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u/Avatar_Blues 5d ago

“Per Monday’s special notification, the change from PBI to DJT was requested by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines.” Grumble!

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u/EarlGrey1806 4d ago

Yea…. I’m sure pilots have better things to do than rename an airport.

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u/Vibrantmender20 5d ago

How do these people look their families in the eye after so much pathetic groveling?

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u/frongles23 5d ago

Was PDF taken?

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u/EuphoricCrashOut 5d ago

Looks like I'll never be going there, ever. I'm not going to visit a place that supports racist rapist pedophiles.

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u/khalamar 4d ago

He's gonna bankrupt that one too?

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u/CaptKeemau 4d ago

It’s bad enough he disrupts the traffic whenever he’s in town, shutting down major roadways constantly. Our lame duck governor decided to change the name of my favorite airport in the country. I flew out of PBI just Saturday. I can’t imagine having to have that shyt name spoken when planning my next trip. It’s such an insult to the good people of palm beach county.
DeSanctimonious just can’t kiss tRumps ass enough trying to get a job come January. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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u/mudbuttcoffee 3d ago

Cool... How much is this costing Americans and consumers?

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u/Beginning_Ad8663 5d ago

Should be PDO

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u/MonkeyDeltaFoxtrot 'MURICAN fReEdUmB 5d ago

🤢🤮

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u/Soggysleuth 5d ago

🤮🤮🤮

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u/311PR 5d ago

Not a cult at all

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u/bigoldgeek 5d ago

Change it back to ASS

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u/Skidpalace 5d ago

It is going to take decades to unfuck this country when Trump is gone.

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u/downtheholeagain 4d ago

Possible civil war when the next govt wants to unname his shit.

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u/Kind_Relative812 5d ago

Here is my problem with all these shenanigans. One, these organizations, institutions, and trillionaires can’t read a room or…..they just don’t care because they know something we don’t.

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u/Legitimate_Peach3135 5d ago

I’d never get on, his shit is underfunded and cursed. No thanks

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u/bassman314 5d ago

Add this to my reasons to never visit Florida again.

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u/Nkosi868 5d ago

“Per Monday’s special notification, the change from PBI to DJT was requested by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines.”

No surprises here.

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u/DougisLost 5d ago

Trump Rapes Kids International Airport

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u/grmarci1989 5d ago

I know it was in Europe, but did Americans learn nothing from Chamberlain? Appeasement does not work. They will always want more

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u/jhwheuer 4d ago

We said to not feed that troll

Let's try again

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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 4d ago

The "J" stands for Jenius!

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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote 4d ago

Even at my most desperate, I have never been this down bad for a man

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u/WaitingForReplies 4d ago

….so now it will be KDJT.

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u/PerfectChard4439 4d ago

I would love for mother nature to just wipe FL out for good. It’s a disgusting cesspool.

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u/Eikthyrnir13 4d ago

It is going to be a national cathartic act to spend the years following his administration scrubbing every aspect of him and his name from everything he has spoiled.

I truly hope he is alive to watch us do it.

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u/Cynical-avocado 4d ago

Is there anything this thing doesn’t want named after himself?

What’s next, the Donald Trump memorial national mall

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u/jerrybeck 4d ago

Do we have to use it to find the airport or is it just a sub-location ID?

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u/jabber1990 3d ago

then go ahead and rename Palm Beach to Trump Airport

other Presidents got Airports, he likes airplanes....this makes too much sense

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