Trump settles on downtown Miami for his presidential library
Source: NBC News
Sept. 23, 2025, 1:12 PM EDT
Donald Trumps 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.
Trumps 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 citys downtown waterfront.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-downtown-miami-dade-presidential-library-freedom-tower-rcna233235
They're gonna need Crockett and Tubbs back on the beat to police the place!


obamanut2012
(28,830 posts)They were terrified it would be there.
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mitch96
(15,494 posts)Mysterian
(5,935 posts)Maybe the only reason to visit Florida.
ananda
(33,239 posts)The first underwater library.
COL Mustard
(7,586 posts)He doesn't read. He may not be able to.
QueerDuck
(92 posts)Perfect spot! ... his heart's devotion, let it sink into the ocean.
Wiz Imp
(7,362 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,857 posts)Anyone want to start a pool? Betting or otherwise?
ToxMarz
(2,566 posts)that is some awesome Lemonade!
Deminpenn
(17,011 posts)lifetime!
maxsolomon
(37,383 posts)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
(8,446 posts)The faster the better.
rurallib
(64,159 posts)Miami lost
muriel_volestrangler
(104,772 posts)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
(104,772 posts)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 Rudys 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
(4,099 posts)It deserves it's own post.
electric_blue68
(23,943 posts)


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Sez this NYC'r !
(Sorry, Miami Dems.)
Cha
(314,506 posts)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
(23,943 posts)Plus round-the-clock extra security for potential problems!
Cha
(314,506 posts)






dhol82
(9,612 posts)New Yorkers would be streaming by at all times of the night or day.
Ive seen a nifty device that allows a woman to pee like a guy. That would def come in handy.
electric_blue68
(23,943 posts)RobinA
(10,424 posts)to turn a library into a blatant money making scheme.
newdeal2
(4,153 posts)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
(314,506 posts)central.. lucky Miami .. not
tavernier
(13,956 posts)living an hour south of Miami in the Keys, I avoid it like the plague. Its a total nightmare to navigate and traffic is always at a crawl or jumble. If I fly its 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. Its just a chore.
Its all yours, El Presidente. Be sure to head down to the beach. Youll be in good company. A lot of griftwood tends to show up there.
BumRushDaShow
(160,511 posts)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
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dhol82
(9,612 posts)What he possibly put there?
dweller
(27,149 posts)Will just be twitter posts , and his Troot social lies
maybe a copy of Art of the Steal
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llmart
(16,850 posts)Or maybe there will just be a million copies of "Mein Kampf".
littlemissmartypants
(29,857 posts)Hope22
(4,173 posts)tanyev
(47,838 posts)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 tides effects.
Many minor floods are a matter of inches rather than feet, but some like last Octobers 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
(15,906 posts)Will the books be available in English or just Russian? Is admission $100k?
Aristus
(70,921 posts)And a massage parlor. And a casino.
You just know they're going to lean into it...
BlueKota
(4,636 posts)nt
FakeNoose
(38,706 posts)... will be the dark-skinned visitors who don't speak any English.
sinkingfeeling
(56,395 posts)usonian
(20,716 posts)Hasn't affected him one iota.
littlemissmartypants
(29,857 posts)JoseBalow
(8,448 posts)
pfitz59
(11,881 posts)on a barge?
Callie1979
(929 posts)Hassler
(4,539 posts)The global warming he doesn't believe in is going destroy the gold plated shit he'll have everywhere.
slightlv
(6,594 posts)The man doesn't read, and is probably illiterate for all intents and purposes. Hundreds of copies of Mein Kampf in gold bound leather? Copies of the magazine Stormy rolled up to smack him with? Oh... I know! All those hundreds of Top Secret and Above TS documents he gave Russia, NK, and others. And who can forget the love letters between him and Kim! No matter what, it sure ain't gonna be no Library of Alexandria! Gods, I hate this man.
Sneederbunk
(16,798 posts)slightlv
(6,594 posts)Were they actual Bibles, or did he have them rewritten, ideologically maga? I was never exactly sure of that...
Most of the New Testament is redacted for national security reasons.
tanyev
(47,838 posts)with walls full of plaques commissioned to describe in florid detail all the fictional accomplishments he constantly brags about and many, many fake magazine covers proclaiming made-up successes.
Also, a tremendously yuuge gift shop with massively overpriced tchotchkes.
mdbl
(7,403 posts)What a waste of money.
thomski64
(732 posts)On the first floor..
Gimpyknee
(657 posts)Lokee11
(381 posts)How the hell is an Illiterate motherF@%K*$ going to have a library?!?!?!?!?!?!
✊FDT!
kimbutgar
(26,083 posts)Last time was in Disneyworld and Universal studios.
Kablooie
(18,980 posts)To handle all the crap that will spew from that place?
OAITW r.2.0
(30,631 posts)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
(63,592 posts).
cstanleytech
(27,946 posts)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
(508 posts)just saying?
calimary
(87,889 posts)I dont even have to drive by it - EVER!
Rhiannon12866
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dedl67
(92 posts)Callie1979
(929 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,511 posts)modrepub
(3,931 posts)Itll 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
(64,528 posts)just the reality of climate change, which he denies.