The Media discovers the inconvenience to airports and general aviation of Presidential Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs).
The Detroit News: Trump’s Florida visits puts small airport in tailspin
Funny, I don't recall a single article over the myriad of TFR caused general aviation airport activity closures when Obama was president in the Chicago area and other environs. Any visit to Detroit would shut KPTK right down, including all flight instruction and regular VFR activities and that happened quite a bit and caused quite a drain to the coffers of the various flight schools and other operations at the airport.
You'd think they could make at least a pattern work exception when you're over 10nm away, but no.
In short, these restrictive VIP TFRs are nothing new to the aviation world. While they should be better tailored and a bit less restrictive they are unchanged from prior administrations and nothing new, just now we have some new airports feeling the pain of the one size fits all TFR.
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