{"id":12844,"date":"2026-05-14T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/14\/miami-residents-sue-over-land-for-trump-presidential-library-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:30:55","slug":"miami-residents-sue-over-land-for-trump-presidential-library-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/14\/miami-residents-sue-over-land-for-trump-presidential-library-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami residents sue over land for Trump presidential library – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A group of Miami residents has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump<\/a> and the state of Florida over a land giveaway for his proposed presidential library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Almost three acres of prime waterfront land that once belonged to Miami Dade College (MDC) were illegally gifted to the US president by Florida\u2019s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, the lawsuit<\/a> states.<\/p>\n

It cites the domestic emoluments clause of the US constitution that prohibits a sitting president from receiving any personal gain, profit or advantage from their position.<\/p>\n

The action was brought in US district court for the southern district of Florida by the Washington DC-based Constitutional Accountability Center<\/a> (CAC) on behalf of plaintiffs including an MDC student, a Miami non-profit, and residents, who state the land \u201cis no longer available to serve MDC\u2019s student community and downtown Miami\u201d.<\/p>\n

Instead, the filing states, \u201cthe land will house a Trump hotel that brings riches to the President\u201d.<\/p>\n

Plans for the \u201cgaudy\u201d project<\/a> were unveiled in March, to be built next to Miami\u2019s iconic Freedom Tower, the historical landmark and community art museum. A giant golden statue of the president will stand before a 50-storey tower block that will feature the controversial $400m Boeing \u201cflying palace\u201d jumbo jet gifted to him<\/a> by Qatar, but not yet in service, in its cavernous lobby.<\/p>\n

At the time, Trump said the building was \u201cmost likely going to be a hotel\u201d.<\/p>\n

The land on which it will sit, the lawsuit said, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than prevent President Trump from using the gifted land for personal gain, Florida<\/a> \u2026 required that the conveyed land include only \u2018components of a Presidential library, museum, and\/or center\u2019, leaving the door open for the President to develop the property in any way he sees fit,\u201d the CAC said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The library has already been the subject of one lawsuit that claimed MDC trustees, most of them handpicked by DeSantis, erred by originally handing the land to the state in September during an unadvertised meeting with no public discussion.<\/p>\n

The board held a do-over in December, and voted unanimously to proceed with the transfer.<\/p>\n

The Guardian has contacted the Trump Presidential Library Foundation and DeSantis\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of Miami residents has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump and the state of Florida over a land giveaway for his proposed presidential library. Almost three acres of prime waterfront land that once belonged to Miami Dade College (MDC) were illegally gifted to the US president by Florida\u2019s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}