Trump Organization signs deal for first Australian skyscraper

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News/Reuters

Feb. 23, 2026, 4:31 AM EST / Source: Reuters


SYDNEY — The Trump Organization has signed a deal to build its first tower in Australia, in a project worth 1.5 billion Australian dollars ($1.06 billion) that developers say will become the country’s tallest building.

The 91-story skyscraper is planned for the Gold Coast, a popular seaside destination in the Australian state of Queensland. It will include a “six-star resort-hotel,” 270 apartments, shops, a beach club and a swimming pool, local property developer Altus Property Group said in a statement.

“Australia’s tallest building will be a Trump Tower, right in the middle of Surfers Paradise — it’s great for Queensland tourism, and fantastic for Australia,” the company said.

“It won’t have a Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton brand above the front door, but it will say ‘Trump.’ And that means it is a no-expense-spared, highest-possible-quality building — the best in the world.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/trump-organization-signs-deal-first-australian-skyscraper-rcna260213

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U.S. taxpayer-funded from the massive raid of the Treasury.

[Bengus81]

1. Build it and they won't come...........

[pwb]

2. I like all the buildings without names on them.

So many other buildings.

[Karma13612]

3. Let's beat the rush:

I hereby apologize to the good people of Australia who are going to have to endure seeing Trump’s name on a tacky building on their fine land for the foreseeable future.

[Javaman]

4. I doubt it will either never be built or ever finished. nt

[PatSeg]

11. That's how I see it

I'm sure that Australians aren't thrilled about the idea.

[twodogsbarking]

5. That there is some big shithouse. How many holes?

[mwmisses4289]

6. Bwahahaha!🤣

“It won’t have a Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton brand above the front door, but it will say ‘Trump.’ And that means it is a no-expense-spared, highest-possible-quality building — the best in the world.”

[Bayard]

7. Just keep stomping on the Emoluments Clause,

And keep the extortion coming.

[travelingthrulife]

8. Why would anyone be stupid enough to deal with this demented psychopath.

[Clouds Passing]

9. Australians, just say no!

[ananda]

10. I thought Australia was more enlightened than that?

Why would they ever let anything Trump anywhere near?

Well, I thought that about Scotland too, and they let
him build a fucking golf course.

[kimbutgar]

12. It probably won't be built it's a distraction from the Epstein, tariffs and his starting a war in Iran

Oahu had one of his hotels and nobody came and it was sold. I have a picture of myself standing outside the hotel looking like I was going to barf !

[Munu]

14. *First* skyscraper in Australia???

How tall before Trump says it's really a skyscraper?

Sydney skyline from Wikipedia:


Melbourne:


Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Australia

[ToxMarz]

16. It will be the first skyscraper to scrape that particular portion of the sky!

NO one has EVER scraped this portion of the sky so bigly!

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. If Trump just built a resort quietly. Gave it a local name, he'd still profit

But he's such a narcissist that he will demand his name be front and center as any part of the deal.
It took years to strip his name off of a building here in downtown Vancouver. I don't see Ausies wanting to walk by his ugly fat pedo name daily either

[wolfie001]

17. I hope all the people who are going to be ripped off are RW'ers

There's plenty down there. It's just an inevitable fact. That's how he functions.

[Marie Marie]

18. Exactly. Do all the tradesmen needed to build this know that they might never get paid?

[duckworth969]

19. WTF Australia!?

[slightlv]

20. Remember... this is where Rupert came from!

[Cha]

21. Fuck That... It's a PEDO TOWER.. how fucking

Disgusting.

[FakeNoose]

22. If it's like the other Chump Towers, then someone else is footing the bill

They're only paying Chump a certain amount to "lease" his name on the building. The bottom line is that Chump will never own it, and maybe not even "manage" it. He leases his name and nothing else.

At one time the Chump family business was to set up management leases for hotels, resorts and condos. But Uday and Qusay (Jr. and Eric) have done such a terrible job running the Chump business that most of those contracts have been torn up. Now apparently it's starting up again, in Australia.

What could go wrong?