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President Trump has not revealed any concrete plans for a future library, but his son and others have been scouting possible sites in South Florida for months.
Sept. 30, 2025Updated 9:51 a.m. ET
Gov. Ron DeSantis and other top elected Republican state officials donated a prime state-owned property in downtown Miami on Tuesday to the nonprofit raising money for President Trump’s presidential library.
Some estimates say that the property, facing Biscayne Bay, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It belonged to Miami Dade College until last week, when the college’s trustees voted without any discussion to convey it to the state.
Mr. DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet — the state attorney general, agriculture commissioner and chief financial officer — unanimously approved the conveyance of the property to the nonprofit when they met on Tuesday in Tallahassee, in their capacity as the trustees of a fund that controls state lands. Their discussion before the vote lasted less than three minutes.
Mr. DeSantis called the possibility of having a presidential library in the state a “unique opportunity,” and added that it would be the first such library to be affiliated with a state college, rather than a university.
Conveying the property as a gift affirmed that the governor and cabinet members believed that its “intended use will provide a greater benefit to the public than its retention in state ownership,” according to agenda documents for Tuesday’s meeting. The move essentially put the property under the control of the Trump family.
Neither Mr. Trump nor his aides have revealed any concrete plans for a future library. The president’s son Eric and son-in-law Michael Boulos incorporated a Florida-based foundation to raise money for the library in May.
