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Florida Man Open Thread: The Proposed Trump Library

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Carl Hiaasen, call your lawyer:

… That’s the vision of James Arena, a real estate broker and resident of Briny Breezes, the 43-acre coastal town just south of Boynton Beach that’s made up entirely of a mobile home park.

Arena, an avid Trump supporter, says he thinks he can convince the president to buy the land and turn it into a personal monument. Arena said he has the ball rolling by reaching out to his friend, rapper and Palm Beach County resident Vanilla Ice, who is close to the Trump family…

The projected listing price to buy Briny Breezes, which is sandwiched between the ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway and is made up of nearly 500 property owners?

$1 billion…

For Briny – as it is known by residents – to be sold, it would have to be approved by property owners representing 67 percent of the town’s shareholders. That’s because Briny is also a corporation run by a board of directors, with the property owners holding corporate “shares.” The better the location of an individual’s property, the more shares that person owns.

Arena said the town’s land owners have little choice but to sell because of major infrastructural issues involving the town’s seawall, fresh water pipes and sewer system that are prohibitively expensive for residents to fix…

Arena said Trump could develop the land by building a hotel, marina and restaurants along with the presidential library and make the site a major tourist attraction.

“It makes a lot of sense for him to do something like that here,” Arena said.

It’s not the first time Trump’s name has been linked to Briny Breezes. In 2007, Trump showed interest in the land, possibly teaming with The Related Group at the time. “We may do that together,” Trump said then. “It’s a great job, a wonderful location.”…

Of course it’s not gonna happen — if only because Trump wouldn’t put up the money, even if he *had* it — but I can totally see #Failson the First getting sweaty-excited over the idea…

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  1. 1.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Trump family will turn this into a massive grift.

    that eventually will go bankrupt

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    I am surprised and disappointed with Vanilla Ice. He’s a lot older than Donald Jr, and he should know better.

  4. 4.

    Ruckus

    Vanilla Ice worked for us at an event not long after his infamous “musical” career nose dive, from one foot off the ground to a face plant. He was a decent bottom of the ladder worker. Which doesn’t say much. But I can’t recall hearing much about him in the last 25 yrs. I see he’s still searching for the bottom of the barrel, being a trumper and all…

  5. 5.

    eclare

    Y’all are forgetting Vanilla Ice was on Dancing With the Stars, where he and “Oops” Perry became best buds.  Neither one lasted long.

  6. 6.

    barb 2

    Evil evil man. He should be in jail. He gets away with so many crimes — not paying workers, rape etc etc.

    Details of that would make a huge library database. Good location where the library will be underwater — nice gift from Mother nature to the chief of climate deniers. Or perhaps he can locate a casino there? We all know he is an expert at running (and looting) casinos.

  7. 7.

    JAFD

    Good morning, jackals and jackalettes !

    Buncha stuf have to do before celebrating.  But want to tell all of you I’m still here, feeling very well, better than I ever thought I would a year ago.  Thanks, again, for your thoughts, prayers, encouragement and morale support.

    Hope you all have a happy Solistice, Hannukah, Christmas, Boxing Day, Mummers’ Day, Twelfth Night, and whatever else you’re celebrating. And that 2020 brings you health, happiness, ease of heart, peace and prosperity.

    Loveya, JAFD

  11. 11.

    Barney

    Of course Trump won’t put up the money – he’d have some shady ‘foundation’ set up to fund it. Then he’d sell shit to it – useless portraits that he tried to get his ‘charity’ to buy, his modified golf scorecards, hell, I expect he’ll claim ownership of all his tweets and sell the copyright to them. The ‘library’ will have to have something for the marks to read when they pay their respects and cash in the few months before it’s engulfed in a financial scandal, probably involving at least two of the spawn.

    He will, of course, have to arrange this before he leaves office, because he’ll need to have juicy pardons to offer in exchange to those funnelling in the cash. Not that this would a quid pro quo, of course – no, these would just be upstanding patriots commemorating the best president ever, and not in any way laundering money to get out of jail. Once he’s out of office, he’ll be of no use to anyone with cash or compromising material, and they’ll drop him like a dyed kipper that’s been out in the sun for a week. Which is roughly what he’s looking like, these days

    Thinking about it, what he’s most likely to do is sell something he owns already to be used as the library – the most failing golf course or something. He may as well get the capital himself.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Vanilla Ice has a house renovation show on TV, The Vanilla Ice Project. He and his crew do large, semi-garish projects somewhere in Florida.

  15. 15.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    The bit I love is this

    “Arena said the town’s land owners have little choice but to sell because of major infrastructural issues involving the town’s seawall, fresh water pipes and sewer system that are prohibitively expensive for residents to fix.”

    I know someone who lives there at it’s basically an entire town of Infowars crazed MAGA hats retirees pining for the 1850s and all insist Global Warming isn’t happening. Now how else does a seaside town’s flood protection, sewage and water supply fail at the time?

  16. 16.

    Suzanne

    Echoing what I said last night… if I was genuinely sitting around, trying to imagine the stupidest, most on-Trumpy-brand shit that I could dream up… NO WAY would I come up with “Vanilla Ice wants to build the Trump Presidential Library on a trailer park”.

    You know, they don’t want to be called “deplorable”, AND YET I JUST FOUND MYSELF TYPING THE ABOVE STATEMENT. “Deplorable” isn’t the half of it.

    I have a hard time separating out which part of my disdain for Trump supporters is purely aesthetic. More than zero.

  17. 17.

    RepubAnon

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: And in other unexpected news, the sun rose in the East..

    I totally agree with the many folks correctly pointing out that the Trump Presidential Library will be the scam of scams – starting with the use of eminent domain for Trump to force the sale of some coveted property adjoining one of Trump’s properties at below-market rates.  It’ll definitely be linked to some Trump property or another.

    I do hope it floods every year.

  18. 18.

    cynthia ackerman

    If I were the Magic Christian, I’d buy the place and leave it as is, residents and all, and promote the hell out of it as the iDJT Libary.

  19. 19.

    Ohio Mom

    I am not surprised to hear that this trailer park is inhabited by rabid Trumpers. No other category of everyday people would entertain the idea that Trump is at all interested in them or anything they might have to offer him.

    Really, this story is about how pathetic Trump’s followers are. They’ve just announced to the world they have invested most of their life’s wealth in worthless property. Actually, property with a negative value. They are a laughingstock.

  20. 20.

    West of the Rockies

    Underwater in 30 years… I like it!  But it took him only ten years for his casino to be underwater.

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