The search for President Donald Trump’s post-administration presidential library site is intensifying in South Florida, with Trump’s son Eric and a top Trump administration adviser, Steve Witkoff, getting involved in recent weeks.
Trump’s team has had site selectors scoping out potential South Florida locations for months, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is meeting with Trump in Palm Beach County this weekend to discuss places to build a potential Trump library, five sources tell NBC News.
Though no final decision has been made, the current top targets are Florida Atlantic University, located in Palm Beach County, and Florida International University, located in Miami-Dade County. Palm Beach County is Trump’s official residence, and the location there is in close proximity to Mar-a-Lago. Miami-Dade County is home to Trump’s Doral golf resort, another one of his major properties.
There are also sites not connected to a university under consideration, sources tell NBC News. But FAU and FIU are lobbying heavily to win the site, and they have started to offer enticements, including potentially donating land to build the presidential library.
Trump’s team has said it would like a new hotel associated with the presidential library, two sources tell NBC News, which is a part of the active negotiations.
The White House did not return a request seeking comment, but a Trump administration official confirmed that South Florida has become the focus of the presidential search.
Beyond direct talks with DeSantis, the GOP-dominated Florida Legislature is moving quickly to pass a bill that would allow Republicans in Tallahassee to be in charge of decisions about presidential libraries, removing the ability of local authorities to oversee the construction of any presidential library.
Posted by John3262005
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I’m picturing a room lined entirely with TVs airing Fox News 24/7
> South Florida
The first to Nth time this monument to vanity gets leveled by a hurricane or flood will be equally funny.
Should it just be a tv tuned to Fox? Libraries imply books.
At least it’ll just be Florida stuck wasting money on this nonsense. I’d rather MAGA cash flow into the Trump family than money from taxpayers in sane states.
I don’t care where it’s placed, just know this. I will make it my mission to defecate in it.
Imagine telling someone in 2012 Miami would be the new epicenter of hitlerism
I like the implication that these two public universities now the communities they are in will have a say in whether the Trump library is awarded to them. Basically it will be decided by the governor and state legislature.