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Trump's new MidEast Towers of Grift [1]

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Date: 2025-05-24

It's just called Trump Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It's being built by Dar Global, also building the Trump tower in Dubai, UAE, for $530 million, as well as the Trump International Hotel in Aida Muscat, Oman. We haven't even gotten to the luxury golf resort in Qatar, with an 18 hole course and a theme park called "Land of Legends." Guess who's building that? Dar Global. It just so happens to be a real estate firm in Saudi Arabia. Dar Global is the international arm of DAARE, Dar Al Arkin Real Estate Development PJSC. It's headquarters is in Dubai, but it's a Saudi Arabian company. If you guessed that the money is coming from the Saudi Arabian Sovereignty Fund, controlled by Mohammad bin Salman, you'd probably be correct, but I can't prove it. The company is only 8 years old. As of March 2023 they had $8.6 billion in assets.

These pictures are, of course artists conceptions. Note though that everything is gold and white. First, the Trump Tower in Jeddah.

A bedroom suite.

Living room, cigar room..

Either this is a bar on the main floor or somebody's got a massive suite.

A meeting room.

Then the exterior of the Trump International Hotel in Oman.

An incredible suite or lounge, with a custom piano in the middle.

A strange stand up lounge in the middle of a pool with a lit gold box on top. Just another gold thingy for Trump.

This one makes it look like people are getting there from an infinity pool.

Long distance shot of the whole setup.

Hotel restaurant.

The Qatar development is a $5.5 billion Trump International Golf Course and Trump Villas. The money comes from Qatari Diar, a company owned by the Qatari government. The same government that just gave Trump the 747 gold brothel.

Eric did the legwork before Trump's visit. Trump, I'm sure, confirmed deals while he was there on his MidEast trip. Just for good measure, late last year he also stuck a deal for a golf resort in Vietnam with a company linked to the Communist Party. Sure is nice Donald is out there looking out for U.S. interests.

If you go to the Dar Global website you can download a brochure for Trump Tower after giving completely bogus information so they ​​​​don't contact you. There's a lot more pictures and 50 different apartment floor plans. Two different penthouses.

In all these developments, Trump is not putting up a penny of his own money. He gets a cut of the action for branding and a bigger cut on suites sold in towers and the golf villas. Donald doesn't care where the bribe is coming from. It's money. The only president who can be bought and sold. National security be damned.

If it walks like a bribe, talks like a bribe, and smells like a bribe, don't let that fool you. It really is a bribe.

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