As critics deride the project as yet another scheme to enrich the Trump family, Dunn<\/a> tells New Times he plans to sue once again to stop it.<\/p>\n Dunn, who previously sued Miami Dade College to stop it from transferring the 2.6-acre property to the state to be deeded to Trump\u2019s foundation, says he\u2019s preparing a new lawsuit challenging Miami Dade College and its Board of Trustees, with students potentially signed on as plaintiffs.<\/p>\n He says he began planning the new lawsuit when the previous one was dismissed<\/a> in December. <\/p>\n \u201cThe video was helpful,\u201d Dunn says, \u201cbut we were going ahead anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n Dunn argues that Trump violated the Constitution by accepting a gift that carries a commercial benefit while in office. He says the Board of Trustees also failed in its fiduciary responsibility to protect the college\u2019s assets. He hopes to file a suit by next week.<\/p>\n \u201cAnyone with eyes can see that this is not a library, it\u2019s a Trump hotel,\u201d Dunn says. \u201cIf not hotel and condo.\u201d<\/p>\n Neither the White House nor The Trump Organization responded to New Times\u2018 request for comment.<\/p>\n The video released by the president\u2019s foundation shows the proposed building dwarfing the nearby Freedom Tower, a historic downtown Miami landmark where Cuban refugees arriving in South Florida decades ago received assistance. The renderings are credited to\u00a0Bermello Ajamil<\/a>, a global architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Miami that did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n By Tuesday evening, Trump suggested the structure may not be a library at all.<\/p>\n \u201cThis concept could be office, but it\u2019s most likely gonna be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby,\u201d the president told reporters<\/a> at the Oval Office. (He also noted that he doesn\u2019t \u201cbelieve in building libraries or museums.\u201d).<\/p>\n Dunn argues that the land belongs to the students of Miami Dade College \u2014 not Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s their land,\u201d Dunn says. \u201cThe Board of Trustees is supposed to protect that land for the benefit of the students, and they didn\u2019t, and that\u2019s the violation of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n Andres Rivero, an attorney who represented Dunn in his previous lawsuit against Miami Dade College, tells New Times that he plans to represent Dunn again.<\/p>\n Rivero said they\u2019re currently \u201canalyzing their options\u201d for the case and declined to comment further. <\/p>\n Last year, Dunn sued<\/a> Miami Dade College, the public institution that owned the swath of prime real estate, and accused it of failing to give the public sufficient notice before a meeting in which trustees conveyed the land to the state to then be deeded to Trump\u2019s library foundation. He questioned who the public land ultimately belongs to, and who gets to decide its future.<\/p>\n According to a 2025 assessment by the Miami-Dade County property appraiser, the land was valued at more than $67 million. One real estate expert reportedly said the parcel, which some have described as a \u201cdeveloper\u2019s dream,\u201d <\/a>could sell for hundreds of millions of dollars or more. <\/p>\n But while a judge initially ruled in Dunn\u2019s favor, the board eventually held another vote in a public meeting and approved the land transfer to the nonprofit foundation. <\/p>\n In the December hearing, in which the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the land transfer, Dunn\u2019s lawyers said they would continue pursuing the case at his expense. <\/p>\n The court required Dunn to post a $150,000 bond for the case to move forward. In a GoFundMe page<\/a>, he said he had raised $26,000 but borrowed the rest of the money.<\/p>\n![\"headshot](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Marvin-Dunn-photo.jpg\")
Miami historian and activist Marvin Dunn. <\/p>\n