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Miami Imagines Itself With Trump’s Glitzy Library at Center Stage
The president’s foundation released a video showing a gleaming tower by Biscayne Bay emblazoned with his name. It would dominate the skyline.
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President Trump plans to use the prime property with bay views donated to him by the state of Florida to maximum effect.
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Audra D. S. Burch
David C. Adams
and
Patricia Mazzei
Reporting from Miami
March 31, 2026,
5:41 p.m. ET
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The flashiness of the future presidential library of a brash New York developer known for his
love of gilded glitz
was never in doubt. But the video rendering that President Trump’s library foundation
posted online on Monday
, showing a gleaming skyscraper in downtown Miami, raised a few eyebrows and dropped a few jaws.
Huge Trump lettering. A replica Air Force One. A golden escalator, and a golden statue of Trump raising a fist. A building with many more stories than any other around it.
Details about the design were few, but the takeaway was clear: Mr. Trump plans to use the prime bay-view property that the state of Florida
donated to him
to maximum effect. His plans would reshape the Miami skyline to make his branded building impossible to escape.
On Tuesday, opinions on the streets of downtown Miami were decidedly mixed. Several people professed bafflement at the scope of the project, at least as depicted in the video.
“It’s grotesque,” said Dominick Auci, 64, a pharmaceutical scientist who lives near the proposed library site along Biscayne Boulevard.
Carla Prieto, a second-year international student at Miami Dade College who moved to the city two years ago from Spain, called it “ridiculous.”
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