{"id":6187,"date":"2025-10-16T07:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6187\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:16:32","slug":"trumps-presidential-library-proposed-for-iconic-miami-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6187\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s presidential library proposed for iconic Miami location"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to establish President Donald Trump\u2019s presidential library<\/a> in an iconic stretch of downtown Miami. <\/p>\n

Paving the way for the president\u2019s post-administration historical archives is another way DeSantis and conservative lawmakers are vying to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump, who has shifted the center of his political universe<\/a> south to his adopted home state of Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo state has better delivered the President\u2019s agenda than the Free State of Florida, and we would be honored to house his presidential library here in his home state,\u201d DeSantis said in a statement announcing the plan Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The proposal sets aside a prime 2.63-acre (1.06-hectare) parcel of land adjacent to the Freedom Tower<\/a>, a historic building that rises alongside the glitzy condos facing palm tree-lined Biscayne Bay. The Spanish Revival skyscraper once housed one of the city\u2019s first newspapers. It later served as a resource center for hundreds of thousands of Cubans seeking asylum in the United States, according to Miami Dade College, which now operates the site as a museum. It\u2019s considered a symbol of the city\u2019s vibrant immigrant heritage and a refuge for those fleeing communism. <\/p>\n

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\n AP AUDIO: DeSantis eyes land in downtown Miami for Trump presidential library\n <\/p>\n

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports Florida\u2019s Governor is looking at Miami for President Trump\u2019s library.<\/p>\n

The landmark tower has also been a site of recent protests against the president and his crackdown on migrants<\/a>. Cuban Americans, who dominate politics in Miami, voted overwhelmingly<\/a> for Trump in the last presidential election. But the president\u2019s mass deportation agenda is increasingly viewed as a betrayal and has left many second-guessing that support.<\/p>\n

In a video posted to social media, state Attorney General James Uthmeier touted the location as ideal for honoring what he described as the \u201cgreatest political comeback story in history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou better believe I\u2019m voting yes,\u201d Uthmeier said of the proposal slated to come before the Florida Cabinet on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

The block directly south of the tower is owned by Miami Dade College and currently used as a parking lot, Miami-Dade County records show. Facing Biscayne Boulevard and adjacent to the basketball arena that\u2019s home to the Miami Heat, the site is prime real estate, with the county property appraiser valuing the parcels at more than $66 million.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, DeSantis signed a bill advanced by the Republican-controlled Legislature to preempt local governments from blocking development of a presidential library, an effort to stave off any potential opposition from liberal-leaning counties or municipalities. <\/p>\n

___ Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press\/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America<\/a> is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to establish President Donald Trump\u2019s presidential library…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6801,6799,1881,409,1882,28,477,4260,1137,123,125,124,6798,6800,99,412,1110],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-asylum","tag-conservatism","tag-domestic-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-general-news","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-kate-payne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-political-news","tag-political-refugees","tag-politics","tag-ron-desantis","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}