Trump settles on downtown Miami for his presidential library

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Sept. 23, 2025, 1:12 PM EDT


Donald Trump’s future presidential library will be housed in downtown Miami at a location selected, in part, because of its proximity to the Freedom Tower, a landmark that played a significant role in helping Cuban refugees migrating to Florida.

Trump’s team has for months been eyeing Florida, where the president is a resident, as the location for the library, which they also hope can be part of a larger development that will include an adjacent hotel. It would be the first presidential library to also be home to a hotel development.

NBC News reported in March that Eric Trump and top Trump adviser Steve Witkoff had made trips to South Florida for site visits to Florida International University, which is in Miami-Dade County, and Florida Atlantic University, located in neighboring Palm Beach County. They met with Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had been lobbying to make Florida home to the Trump library.

Both lost out, however, and the formal location will be housed on land currently owned by Miami-Dade College, adjacent to the Freedom Tower and located on the city’s downtown waterfront.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-downtown-miami-dade-presidential-library-freedom-tower-rcna233235

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They're gonna need Crockett and Tubbs back on the beat to police the place!

[obamanut2012]

1. I have faculty friends at FAU

They were terrified it would be there.

[mitch96]

3. LET THE GRAFFITI BEGIN!!...it better be in a safe place with 24/7 security... nt

[Mysterian]

4. Great place for partyers to piss and puke on it!

Maybe the only reason to visit Florida.

[ananda]

5. ROFL

The first underwater library.

[COL Mustard]

67. How can he have a library???

He doesn't read. He may not be able to.

[barbtries]

73. my first thought as well.

it'll soon be part of the ocean. not to worry about the books getting wet. to my knowledge there would be only 2: mein kampf, and art of the deal.

unless of course every book written about him was included. lots of those, lots and lots.

[QueerDuck]

5. Miami is in the path of hurricanes, isn't it? The city is sinking while the water is rising?

Perfect spot! ... his heart's devotion, let it sink into the ocean.

[Wiz Imp]

57. Yep and Yep

[littlemissmartypants]

7. How long before it's literally completely underwater?

Anyone want to start a pool? Betting or otherwise?

[ToxMarz]

26. When life give you lemons

that is some awesome Lemonade!

[Deminpenn]

54. Might even see it in what remains of my

lifetime!

[maxsolomon]

8. Going on the parking lot to the south of the Freedom Tower, no doubt.

Or the one north of it. It's a good location but it will be a neo-classical piece of shit.

Probably that bow-tied clown Architect James McCrery will get the job.

[Captain Zero]

39. All the gold shit in it will make it sink faster

The faster the better.

[rurallib]

9. Came down to Miami and Moscow probably

Miami lost

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. A hotel? So Trump is demanding to make money out of his library?

Why not just turn it into a theme park and charge entrance fees?

Also, "Trump administration tells immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela they have to leave"

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-humanitarian-parole-china-haiti-nicaragua-venezuela-562e081b310228605add5f5ed2506da2

So yeah, Trump would really want to rub that in by being next to a location associated with earlier presidents who let them in.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. LOL! Someone's been busy on the hotel prospectus

https://djtrumplibrary.com/amenities

Criminal Luxury
Visitors to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library have five star luxury tax and/or draft dodging options in the tradition of Trump Taj Mahal and Trump Soho.

Check-ins begin at sentencing.

Check outs with presidential pardon.

Amenities include:
500 thread-count (stain resistant) sheets
Room service
Bedside urinals
Bathroom fixtures completely dripping in gold
Floor to ceiling plastic wrapping by request
Free phone calls (pre-recorded for FBI)
Safe capable of holding $130,000
Many packages available
Ask for the ‘Rudy’s Trousers’ option for a limited time.
Platinum Putin Plan: Get what you want and have America pay for it

Exit via the Grift Shop!

[markodochartaigh]

27. This is great!

It deserves it's own post.

[electric_blue68]

12. Well, Thank Goodness it NOT in NYC!!!

🧨🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆
🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️
🎉😄🎉😄🎉😄🎉

Sez this NYC'r !

(Sorry, Miami Dems.)

[Cha]

15. Fascist Fucks wouldn't dare.

NYC wouldn't put up with it..

Wondering if the test of History will be tolerant of the Dictator's "library" in Miami?

[electric_blue68]

17. Heh! There'd be a HELLUVA of Alot of Protests for sure!....

Plus round-the-clock extra security for potential problems!

[Cha]

23. lol.. Precisely!

[electric_blue68]

53. 👍

[dhol82]

32. Oh, there would be marches if they proposed it be located here!

New Yorkers would be “streaming by” at all times of the night or day.



I’ve seen a nifty device that allows a woman to pee like a guy. That would def come in handy.

[electric_blue68]

37. 😄😄😄

[RobinA]

13. Leave It To Trump

to turn a library into a blatant money making scheme.

[newdeal2]

25. His chump fans demand it

There will be gift shops, restaurants, hotel, probably even condos and a casino. All opportunities for Trump to cash in on the MAGAts who will visit this tacky museum.

[Cha]

14. Fascist Fucked UP "library" Propaganda

central.. lucky Miami .. not

[tavernier]

16. Oh that's good because

living an hour south of Miami in the Keys, I avoid it like the plague. It’s a total nightmare to navigate and traffic is always at a crawl or jumble. If I fly it’s always out of either Key West or Fort Lauderdale. If we head up to the mainland for a long weekend, we turn left and enjoy the west coast. Everyone I know who has Dr appointments or business in Miami just groans and sighs. It’s just a chore.

It’s all yours, El Presidente. Be sure to head down to the beach. You’ll be in good company. A lot of griftwood tends to show up there.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I was "in Miami" back in 1975

as a stopover headed home to Philly from Nassau. We got off the plane, walked outside via the front entrance, declared that "We have now been in Miami", and then went back inside, and got back on the plane (true story)!

[FakeNoose]

19. Will Chump's library have any actual ... ya know ... books?

[dhol82]

34. Wouldn't they just be ashes?

What he possibly put there?

[dweller]

35. It could be housed in an old pay telephone booth

Will just be twitter posts , and his Troot social lies … maybe a copy of Art of the Steal


✌🏻

[tonekat]

80. Or an old shoebox. N/T

[llmart]

42. I can't see the word Trump and library having any connection whatsoever.

Or maybe there will just be a million copies of "Mein Kampf".

[littlemissmartypants]

49. Only one, Mein Kampf.

[Hope22]

20. Better build it on something that floats. N/t

[tanyev]

30. Yep. 2018: King Tides

One morning last October, Miami’s municipal government issued a warning to drivers in the area: they should avoid much of the city’s center, because it had been inundated. “Today, Miami is flooding as if a hurricane went through it,” the city’s mayor wrote on Twitter.

No hurricane had hit Miami that week. The flooding was the result of a “king tide” — an especially intense high tide brought about by a particular alignment of the moon and sun that usually occurs in the fall and winter. Rain and wind had amplified the tide’s effects.

Many minor floods are a matter of inches rather than feet, but some — like last October’s in Miami — are deep enough to disrupt traffic and other systems. Even a few inches of water in the basements or ground floors of homes and businesses can ruin floors, furnishings, and other possessions, requiring extensive cleanup.

Over time, the damage adds up. Standing water can weaken infrastructure. The sea level rise that underlays flooding can increase the salinity of coastal soils, degrade water quality, and make it harder for crops to grow.

https://www.climatecentral.org/report/rising-tides-how-near-daily-flooding-of-americas-shorelines-could-become-the-norm

[twodogsbarking]

21. Will the Epstein files be there? A special section dedicated to his dead best friend. A dead wife section?

Will the books be available in English or just Russian? Is admission $100k?

[Aristus]

22. The first Presidential library with a hotel development.

And a massage parlor. And a casino.

You just know they're going to lean into it...

[BlueKota]

33. And old issues of Playboy will fill the shelves.

nt

[FakeNoose]

38. I'm guessing the only people who stay there

... will be the dark-skinned visitors who don't speak any English.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. Good. I haven't gone to Miami since I left in 1979.

[usonian]

28. THANK GOODNESS CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX

Hasn't affected him one iota.

[littlemissmartypants]

50. I bet he can't swim.

[JoseBalow]

29. So fitting that he's building it on a literal sinking ship

[pfitz59]

31. where will he park the 747?

on a barge?

[Callie1979]

65. Thats right! That jet is supposed to go to the library! Bet he tries to sell it

[Bengus81]

75. Shows how phony that "it's going to my library" bullSHIT was from the start

That fucker will be parked at WPB International. Hell,he'll probably have taxpayer money build him a hangar. Just watch.....

[Hassler]

36. Good. One of the most flood prone places in USA

The global warming he doesn't believe in is going destroy the gold plated shit he'll have everywhere.

[slightlv]

40. What in the hell is he going to house in a library?!

The man doesn't read, and is probably illiterate for all intents and purposes. Hundreds of copies of Mein Kampf in gold bound leather? Copies of the magazine Stormy rolled up to smack him with? Oh... I know! All those hundreds of Top Secret and Above TS documents he gave Russia, NK, and others. And who can forget the love letters between him and Kim! No matter what, it sure ain't gonna be no Library of Alexandria! Gods, I hate this man.

[Sneederbunk]

46. Many, many $59.95 Bibles.

[slightlv]

48. Right!!!! I'd completely forgotten about the Bibles.

Were they actual Bibles, or did he have them rewritten, ideologically maga? I was never exactly sure of that...

[JawJaw]

62. I imagine

Most of the New Testament is redacted for national security reasons.

[tanyev]

56. It will mostly be a place to display the "gifts" he's accepted,

with walls full of plaques commissioned to describe in florid detail all the fictional accomplishments he constantly brags about and many, many fake magazine covers proclaiming made-up successes.

Also, a tremendously yuuge gift shop with massively overpriced tchotchkes.

[mdbl]

41. How long does it take to read a couple of racist hate-filled pop-up books?

What a waste of money.

[thomski64]

43. Make sure to put the "global warming is a hoax"exhibit

On the first floor..

[Gimpyknee]

44. How big of a library is needed to store copies of The Art of the Deal and Mein Kamph?

[Lokee11]

45. Someone explain to me

How the hell is an Illiterate motherF@%K*$ going to have a library?!?!?!?!?!?!

✊FDT!

[kimbutgar]

47. Oh no I'm so sad.....But I will never visit Florida or spend a dime in that state again!

Last time was in Disneyworld and Universal studios.

[Kablooie]

51. Does Miami have a big enough sewer...

To handle all the crap that will spew from that place?

[OAITW r.2.0]

52. Seriously, what the fuck will Trump put in this Library?

Don't know yet, but it won't have anything resembling previous Presidents and their thoughts. I think it will be a convenient place to dump off his schlocky shit that he has in storage anyway and charge the rubes to gawk at it..

[hatrack]

55. Good! And the closer to the beach, the sooner it'll be submerged . . .

.

[cstanleytech]

58. Hmm I might try to save up money to visit it actually.

Making sure to eat a large meal and drink a gallon of water first so I can show my respects.....in the bathroom.

[William Gustafson]

59. I understand that the Epstein Island is vaccant... maybe have it there..

just saying?

[calimary]

60. Nice to live clear across the country from there!

I don’t even have to drive by it - EVER!

[Rhiannon12866]

61. What in the world is he going to place there, he doesn't read. Videos of his speech threatening the UN?!

[dedl67]

64. Close to Torch of Friendship in Miami, where No Kings rally started

[Callie1979]

66. Any mention of how they'll BUY the property?

[BumRushDaShow]

69. I saw another article where DeSatan offered it up

DeSantis eyes land in downtown Miami for Trump presidential library

[Callie1979]

81. Doesnt seem legal but hey the law no longer matters.

[modrepub]

68. Perfect!

It’ll probably cost a mint to build, which will soak up billions of $ from his supporters. Elevation is probably at best 6 feet above sea level. Hopefully his whole family will be buried there. When the Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps melt in the next 100 years the whole place will be under 10 feet or more of water. Future visitors will have to SCUBA to get there.

[Javaman]

70. it'll be flooded in a few years.

just the reality of climate change, which he denies.

[douglas9]

71. Sea Level Rise Projection Map - Miami

https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-2100-miami/

[muriel_volestrangler]

72. Something odd about this thread - viewing it is changing my "highlight" setting to "none", rather than "recommendedx5"

and it won't let me change it back to "recommendedx5" inside this thread. If I go to another thread after this, it is still at none, but in that, I can then change it, and that sticks for other threads. Until I come back to this one. Anyone else seeing this?

[BumRushDaShow]

77. I use "Skinner Mode" on Firefox (the latest)

and am not sure where the setting you describe is...

[muriel_volestrangler]

78. Above the tree showing the replies in the thread

Is a line reading
77 replies (yellow icon) = new reply since forum marked as read Highlight: None 5 newest Recommended

'Highlight' can be 'none', the 5 newest replies, or the replies recommended at least 5 times. This is a standard feature available for quite some time (I can't remember when it came in - a couple of years ago? Could be quite a lot more. Probably when recommending replies started). Still not working for me, but only on this thread, as far as I can tell (clicking on "Recommended" changes nothing).

[BumRushDaShow]

79. Took a bit but I found the line you are talking about

I don't even use that line!

I guess I'm too "old school". I think that feature (or something similar) has been around since at least DU2.

[travelingthrulife]

74. Is the fool going to park his new pay-to-play jet there?

[sop]

76. I propose Alligator Alcatraz.