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IcyPeas

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8. Library with a hotel you mean...
Fri May 22, 2026, 09:38 PM
May 22
.... The next day Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums” and that the building was “most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby.”
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The decision to make Trump’s presidential library a hotel raises several questions, including about how it could legally operate as a nonprofit.

Every president’s library thus far has had an associated nonprofit, which funds the development and then assists with events and fundraising after the building is transferred to the federal government to be operated by the National Archives. All presidential library foundations are subject to the Internal Revenue Code which prohibits the foundation from being used to benefit “any person having a personal and private interest in the organizations’ activities.”


https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-trump-organization-is-developing-trumps-presidential-library-maybe-as-a-trump-hotel/

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