President Donald Trump on Tuesday added a brand new wrinkle to plans for his presidential library in Miami.
And it’s one he might probably use to make some additional money.
“I don’t consider in constructing libraries or museums,” Trump informed reporters as he mocked the “very unattractive” library for former President Barack Obama below development in Chicago that’s not on time and over price range.
Trump stated his library won’t solely be higher however have one thing present in no different presidential library.
“It’s gonna be most probably a lodge,” Trump stated. “May very well be workplace, nevertheless it’s most probably gonna be a lodge with an attractive constructing beneath.”
A video teaser launched earlier this week confirmed the library full with gold statues of Trump, a former Air Drive One jet, and a large video display screen outdoors exhibiting his face.
However one characteristic that was particularly putting to observers was its dimension: the constructing is a skyscraper, and based mostly on the renderings will probably be one of many taller buildings within the metropolis.
Son Eric Trump, who introduced the plans earlier this week, informed the Miami Herald it gained’t be residential house.
Now, the president stated it might be a lodge, which might be an uncommon association on condition that the library basis itself is a nonprofit entity.
Nonetheless, The New York Instances stated this week that the settlement transferring the land from a neighborhood school to the state of Florida to the library basis solely requires a library or museum on sure elements of the positioning. That, the newspaper reported, would enable for a for-profit entity to additionally function there.
The newspaper stated the land was valued at $67 million however believed to be price way more.
The president’s critics weren’t precisely shocked by his plans: