Eric Trump reveals first rendering of presidential library
Eric Trump has released the first rendering of his father’s presidential library and museum, planned for Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami.
- President Trump’s new Air Force One plane is a $400 million gift from Qatar.
- After President Trump’s term, it will no longer be a presidential plane.
- The presidential plane will be moved to the Trump Presidential Library in Miami.
President Donald Trump unveiled the new Air Force One Boeing 747, a gift from Qatar, from an airplane hangar in Maryland on June 19.
President Trump has long bemoaned Air Force One, accepting Boeing in May 2025 after criticizing Boeing for taking too long to build new planes.
President Trump called the new jetliner “a flying White House with a level of luxury no one has ever seen before.” The donated plane, valued at $400 million, has raised ethical concerns, but President Trump said he would be a “stupid person” to refuse the plane in 2025.
Also, the “Flying White House” won’t last long. The plane will be known as Air Force One, the designation for the president’s aircraft, until 2028, when Boeing’s two new presidential 747s are expected to be completed. The Qatari plane will then head to President Trump’s future library. Where is it?
Where is President Trump’s library located?
In September, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis allocated a 2.63-acre parcel of land currently being used as a parking lot for Miami Dade College for the future Presidential Center. The land is located next to the Freedom Tower landmark near the waterfront in downtown Miami.
A rendering of the library and museum released by Eric Trump shows it will be a glass skyscraper with the word “TRUMP” written across the top.
In the rendered video, the plane sits in what appears to be a lobby surrounded by golden archways. The plane in the video is robin’s egg blue, like the old Air Force One plane, but Qatar’s gift is painted red, white and blue. Renderings of the building’s interior show multiple mezzanines overlooking the planes, some connected by golden escalators reminiscent of the one Trump descended on from Trump Tower in New York to announce his candidacy for president.
Libraries will no longer be traditional, like President Obama’s library.
Former President Barack Obama opened the doors to the Presidential Center in Chicago over the weekend of June 11th. Instead of creating a traditional presidential library to house presidential records, he digitized the records, created a ticketed museum, and created a 19-acre park with community amenities. It is run by the nonprofit Obama Foundation.
President Trump’s building is also likely to break with tradition.
“It’s probably going to be a hotel,” President Trump said from the Oval Office on March 31. “The concept could be an office, but it’s most likely a hotel with a beautiful building in the basement and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby. That would be a trick.”
Trump and DeSantis were sued by a Miami nonprofit group and residents on May 13, alleging that the donated land was a “quid pro quo” from the state government, which is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.
“In defiance of this prohibition, Florida officials have given hundreds of millions of dollars worth of state property to the President,” the complaint states. According to a New York Times article cited in the lawsuit, the property was valued by the county at $67 million, but real estate consultants estimated it could be sold for at least $360 million. “Importantly, the Florida Commission’s approval does not restrict President Trump or the Trump Library Foundation from developing commercial commercial or residential properties, such as hotels, on the MDC parcels.”
The White House referred questions to the Trump Library Foundation on June 23. A legal representative for the foundation did not respond to a request for comment.
Contributed by Joey Garrison, Aysha Bagchi, Antonio Fins, USA TODAY Network
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