Here are excerpts from an article in the April 1, Sun Sentinel, fittingly, April Fool’s Day.
Trump releases first depictions of Miami presidential library
By Douglas Hanks and Claire Heddles, The Miami Herald
President Donald Trump’s foundation released a teaser video for his proposed presidential library in downtown Miami on Monday, revealing plans for a skyscraper with a fully capitalized TRUMP emblazoned atop, a presidential jet in the lobby, an amphitheater where audiences will face a golden statue of the president and replicas of the White House, including the Rose Garden and a ballroom he’s building where the East Wing once stood.
Note: This apparently is not the Trump Foundation that was fined millions of dollars for misuse of charitable funds. It also is not the Trump Organization that was fined $1.6M for criminal tax fraud (CFO Allen Weisselberg was thrown under the bus and went to jail).
And it is not the civil fraud case for which the fine was $450 million+. And, of course, it doesn’t include the $80+ million (and rising) he was fined for sexual abuse and defamation.
There has been no announcement about whether there will be a separate roomfloor building of the library to list all of Trump’s crimes and fines.
The planned tower dwarfs all the surrounding Miami buildings in the rendering. The adjacent Freedom Tower — the former refugee center for Cuban asylum seekers and now a museum — appears about a quarter of the size of the Trump monument.
Because, as every MAGA knows, Trump’s lust for self-aggrandizement is far more important to America than some useless Freedom Tower.
“Miami deserves this building,” Eric Trump, the Trump son who pushed for Florida to give his father’s foundation the land and is helping design the building, said in a statement to the Miami Herald on Monday. “It will be a masterpiece, the likes of which have never been seen in Florida or really anywhere.”
That is true. The Ron DeSantis suck-up-to-Trump effort and the mindless MAGAs deserve the tasteless, monstrosity, especially since Trump has been so complimentary: “Ron DeSanctimonious,” “Dull,” “Lacking personality,” “Not charismatic,” and “Lockdown Ron.”
Trump plans a tower as tall, or nearly as tall, as anything around it in downtown Miami, overlooking Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. He has not said what will occupy the upper floors.
In a text message Monday night, Eric Trump said people wouldn’t be living there. “No residential,” he said.
Well, OK, but maybe a penthouse for Trump and his family, another (private) floor for underage girls, and a jail cell for immigrant children?
A replica of Air Force One, the presidential plane, is the showcase piece of the lobby off of Biscayne Boulevard. The government of Qatar is donating to the United States a jet to be used as Air Force One, reportedly with permission for Trump to use the plane once he leaves the White House.
That will be Trump’s gift to his library, a regift for which he paid nothing and will have no use. The lobby might be renamed, The Quatar Room?
And now for the best part: Heroic, giant statues and photos of God Trump.
A goldenstatue of Trump with his fist raised stands on the stage of an auditorium inside the building. The video also has a hint of a Trump statue outside overlooking Biscayne Boulevard.
Trump’s image will be a feature of the exterior of the building, with jumbo video screens showing his face in the footage. The Freedom Tower will be dwarfed by the library tower, which would go up on a parking lot that Gov. Ron DeSantis arranged for its owner, the state-run Miami Dade College, to give away for free for the library.
“Arranged for” is the Trumpian suck-up way of saying “demanded, or else.”
Trump’s library will have a ballroom that appears to match renderings of the ballroom Trump is planning for the White House, on land where the east wing of the White House stood before the president had it demolished.
The Miami tower also features a replica Oval Office and a replica Rose Garden. That appears to include reproductions of at least some of the portraits of former presidents that Trump installed around the garden.
While the footage shows the miniportraits and plaques under them, it does not show whether that will include the derogatory comments Trump used for some predecessors — including representing former President Joe Biden with only an autopen.
A red-white-and-blue spire juts out skyward from the top of the building, above Trump’s name. The video also shows a massive American flag hanging down from the center of the tower.
It’s not immediately clear if the vision in the teaser is possible within the 2.6-acre lot the nonprofit foundation was given at no cost by Miami Dade Colle
The college initially transferred the land to the stthe project during a brief public meeting with no discussion or debate about its planned use. After a lawsuit accused the college’s board of trustees of violating Florida’s public transparency laws, the school took a new vote in December — clearing the way for the state to transfer the land.
Trump’s library foundation was granted nonprofit status during an extraordinarily quick approval process by the IRS.
Much of the public funds the foundation has raised thus far have been through highprofile settlements with media companies after Trump sued them. The foundation is planning to raise nearly $1 billion dollars over the next three years, while Trump is still in office, tax filings show.
There has been no public discussion about whether the Trump Library will contain floors and exhibits related to
The disastrous Iran war, the result of Trump’s unilateral end to the Iran nuclear deal, formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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