Does Don have a thing for tearing down architectural landmarks?

[berg80]

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site​

The Serbian Parliament approved a new law Friday to tear down an architectural landmark that NATO bombed in 1999, stripping it of cultural protections and clearing the way for President Trump’s family to replace it with a luxury hotel.

Plans to build a half-billion-dollar Trump-branded hotel and apartments on the site of the landmark, the former General Staff military complex in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, had been stalled after government officials who endorsed it were charged with fraud.

But last weekend, lawmakers from the governing party of President Aleksandar Vucic announced they would use an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to introduce a law that would restart the project.

The legislative wrangling drew condemnation from students, prosecutors, preservationists and opposition politicians in the latest provocation after more than a year of anticorruption protests against Mr. Vucic’s government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/world/europe/serbia-hotel-trump-kushner.html

I thought the hundreds of millions of dollars the fam is making from the crypto grift would be enough. Apparently not. One can only hope the people of Serbia boycott the place over Don's extraordinary deference to Vlad.

 

[Cassandro]

Why don't you let the Serbians decide that question? Because you know better?

 

[Mac1958]

I thought the hundreds of millions of dollars the fam is making from the crypto grift would be enough. Apparently not. One can only hope the people of Serbia boycott the place over Don's extraordinary deference to Vlad.

Imagine the leverage he has, with the power of the office behind him.

Precisely why he's not supposed to be able to do this.

But it doesn't matter any more.

 

[berg80]

Why don't you let the Serbians decide that question? Because you know better?

The lawmaker who introduced the measure, Milenko Jovanov, said in Parliament on Tuesday that it would revitalize bombed-out buildings that have sat largely empty “with no plan for what to do with them.”

He also said the hotel project could curry favor with the Trump administration at a time Serbia is trying to maintain relations both with Moscow and the West. Mr. Trump has imposed a 35 percent tariff on Serbian imports, and American sanctions have hampered a Russian-owned company that is Serbia’s main oil supplier, as well as some of Mr. Vucic’s allies.

Don is expert at extortion. Or as he calls it, "the art of the deal."

 

[berg80]

Imagine the leverage he has, with the power of the office behind him.

Precisely why he's not supposed to be able to do this.

But it doesn't matter any more.

Exactly. The power of the office including the dubiously asserted power to levy tariffs.

He also said the hotel project could curry favor with the Trump administration at a time Serbia is trying to maintain relations both with Moscow and the West. Mr. Trump has imposed a 35 percent tariff on Serbian imports, and American sanctions have hampered a Russian-owned company that is Serbia’s main oil supplier, as well as some of Mr. Vucic’s allies.

 

[Rawley]

The lawmaker who introduced the measure, Milenko Jovanov, said in Parliament on Tuesday that it would revitalize bombed-out buildings that have sat largely empty “with no plan for what to do with them.”

He also said the hotel project could curry favor with the Trump administration at a time Serbia is trying to maintain relations both with Moscow and the West. Mr. Trump has imposed a 35 percent tariff on Serbian imports, and American sanctions have hampered a Russian-owned company that is Serbia’s main oil supplier, as well as some of Mr. Vucic’s allies.

Don is expert at extortion. Or as he calls it, "the art of the deal."

It's a bombed out building, built in the 60s. Seems like a win/win.

 

[berg80]

Imagine the leverage he has, with the power of the office behind him.

Precisely why he's not supposed to be able to do this.

But it doesn't matter any more.

The thing is, if millions of dollars were to anonymously appear in Don's crypto account from............oh I don't know, the Serbian government...........in a quid pro quo deal involving the hotel and tariff relief..................guess who would be the wiser?

Certainly not the American public.

 

[Mac1958]

The thing is, if millions of dollars were to anonymously appear in Don's crypto account from............oh I don't know, the Serbian government...........in a quid pro quo deal involving the hotel and tariff relief..................guess who would be the wiser?

Certainly not the American public.

Very true. And worse, if they DID find out, would they really care at this point?

 

[berg80]

Very true. And worse, if they DID find out, would they really care at this point?

The answer to that question can be found in the degree to which they cared about him trying to steal the 2020 election.

 

[BackAgain]

Does Don have a thing for tearing down architectural landmarks?​

Just wait til you see the plans he has for the Washington Monument and for the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials!

EM Pei would be jealous.

 

[berg80]

Corruption follows Don around like a puppy dog.

Soon after Mr. Trump was re-elected, the Serbian government declared the site was no longer considered a culturally protected asset. However, Serbia’s organized-crime prosecutor this year charged the director of the state-run culture institute with falsifying documents to justify stripping the complex of its protected status. Other government culture officials have since been charged.

The new law overrides existing regulations that govern the use of the complex, including its protections as a Serbian heritage site. The legislation was drafted under a constitutional procedure that experts said was intended for use only in extreme circumstances.

 

[hadit]

Why don't you let the Serbians decide that question? Because you know better?

He knew nothing about this famous landmark before a panting headline caught his eye.

 

[mudwhistle]

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site​

The Serbian Parliament approved a new law Friday to tear down an architectural landmark that NATO bombed in 1999, stripping it of cultural protections and clearing the way for President Trump’s family to replace it with a luxury hotel.

Plans to build a half-billion-dollar Trump-branded hotel and apartments on the site of the landmark, the former General Staff military complex in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, had been stalled after government officials who endorsed it were charged with fraud.

But last weekend, lawmakers from the governing party of President Aleksandar Vucic announced they would use an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to introduce a law that would restart the project.

The legislative wrangling drew condemnation from students, prosecutors, preservationists and opposition politicians in the latest provocation after more than a year of anticorruption protests against Mr. Vucic’s government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/world/europe/serbia-hotel-trump-kushner.html

I thought the hundreds of millions of dollars the fam is making from the crypto grift would be enough. Apparently not. One can only hope the people of Serbia boycott the place over Don's extraordinary deference to Vlad.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Democrats have no business telling other countries what to do with their own property. They are still fighting to tear down the Washingon Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and other American sites.

Bowser task force targets Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, dozens more

The recommendations ignited a backlash, with the White House press secretary saying the mayor should be "ashamed."

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