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(70,231 posts) Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:12 PM Saturday

Trump Organization to Partner on New Skyscraper in Tbilisi, Georgia

Source: The Wall Street Journal.

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Trump Organization to Partner on New Skyscraper in Tbilisi, Georgia

President Trump’s family real-estate firm is planning to brand a 70-story luxury residential tower with local partners in the Georgia capital

By Deborah Acosta and Peter Grant
Updated April 18, 2026 3:40 pm ET

Tbilisi, Georgia. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg News

A new Trump-branded skyscraper is set to rise in the Caucasus, another example of how the Trump family firm has changed its approach to overseas business during the second Trump administration.

The Trump Organization and its partners plan to build Trump Tower Tbilisi, a roughly 70-story mixed-use project that would be the tallest building in the capital of Georgia, according to a representative of the Trump Organization’s partners on the project.

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Trump Organization to Partner on New Skyscraper in Tbilisi, Georgia (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Saturday OP

Is there some standard acronym or shorthand for these things ? Dictator's Phallic Symbol ? Monuments To Inadequacy ? eppur_se_muova Yesterday #1

While other buildings and hotels are not Figarosmom Yesterday #2

No corruption to see here!!!! AZ8theist 22 hrs ago #3

The payoff for lifting the Russian oil sanctions and moniss 19 hrs ago #4

They probably think it's in MTG's former district... Hugin 18 hrs ago #5

Wales/whales wolfie001 18 hrs ago #6

No, it's next to Claxton where the fruitcakes live and the horns are sounded. Wonder Why 13 hrs ago #7

eppur_se_muova

(42,126 posts)

1. Is there some standard acronym or shorthand for these things ? Dictator's Phallic Symbol ? Monuments To Inadequacy ?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:06 AM

Yesterday

What ?

A Fascicade ? A 3D Dick Pic ?

A Consolation Erection (to make up for lack of real ones) ?

Figarosmom

(12,482 posts)

2. While other buildings and hotels are not

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 03:31 AM

Yesterday

Renewing contracts for the use of his name (trademark) these people want it? He can't really be popular in Eurasia area. I'm pretty sure they hate putin. I think they got grifted.

AZ8theist

(7,465 posts)

3. No corruption to see here!!!!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 06:36 AM

22 hrs ago

moniss

(9,094 posts)

4. The payoff for lifting the Russian oil sanctions and

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 10:20 AM

19 hrs ago

freeing up money to help Putin with the Russian efforts in Georgia. Georgia is such a mess and is what Putin has always wanted in his efforts to "reunify" the old Soviet Union. Despite making efforts about joining the EU the country has been heavily backsliding towards Russia and playing both sides.

https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/03/russian-influence-operations-in-georgia-a-threat-to-democracy-and-regional-stability/