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dalton99a

(94,109 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:44 AM Nov 2025

A Mideast Development Firm Has Set Up Shop in Trump Tower

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/world/middleeast/dar-global-trump-org-saudi-mbs-business-deal-real-estate-licensing.html

https://archive.ph/7yOwF

A Mideast Development Firm Has Set Up Shop in Trump Tower
Dar Global bet big on the Trump name. It is now an essential foreign partner for the Trump Organization.
By Rebecca R. Ruiz and Vivian Nereim
Nov. 15, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET


A model of a proposed development to be built in Qatar by a partnership including the Trump Organization and Dar Global. Karim Jaafar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In late 2024, just after the U.S. presidential election, the international arm of a Saudi real-estate development company announced that it was betting big on the Trump name.

The company, Dar Global, was already in business with the Trump Organization. Now, the pair was planning at least three new developments together in Saudi Arabia: Two in the capital of Riyadh as well as a tower in Jeddah — all bearing the Trump brand.

Dar Global has become the Trump Organization’s most important foreign business partner and a key conduit to Gulf Arab governments and companies. Its deals to license the Trump name delivered $21.9 million to the Trump family business last year.

The firm is an offshoot of one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest real-estate developers with close ties to the government, and has ridden the Trump brand to global prominence. Earlier this year, the firm opened its first U.S. office — on the 19th floor of Trump Tower.

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A Mideast Development Firm Has Set Up Shop in Trump Tower (Original Post) dalton99a Nov 2025 OP
The corruption continues. I wonder what US intelligence Trump has provided in return for family deals. Lonestarblue Nov 2025 #1
Well Traildogbob Nov 2025 #2
Not enough water slides. C_U_L8R Nov 2025 #3
Fuck all of them and their precious money. pwb Nov 2025 #4
They don't even hide the corruption and bribes any more. Irish_Dem Nov 2025 #5
Coming soon to downtown Washington DC Hey Joe Nov 2025 #6
Probably have offices in the new Ballroom ho house. Irish_Dem Nov 2025 #7
Yea, sure, he's turned his business over to the family. BULLSHIT. spanone Nov 2025 #8
These fuckers would make Vito Corleoni blush. Hey Joe Nov 2025 #9

Lonestarblue

(13,474 posts)
1. The corruption continues. I wonder what US intelligence Trump has provided in return for family deals.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:48 AM
Nov 2025

Traildogbob

(13,017 posts)
2. Well
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:50 AM
Nov 2025

They will be at home when the new Mayor converts the whole city to Muslin with Sharia Law.
Where is Ted Cruz sounding the alarm of the invasion?

pwb

(12,660 posts)
4. Fuck all of them and their precious money.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:53 AM
Nov 2025

Pass that money around to your people if you have too much.

Irish_Dem

(81,248 posts)
5. They don't even hide the corruption and bribes any more.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:43 AM
Nov 2025

Except the really horrendous stuff. That is still hidden from view.

Hey Joe

(614 posts)
6. Coming soon to downtown Washington DC
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 01:48 PM
Nov 2025

Dar Globals second US based company headquarters.
May as well make them as accessible to the seat of government power as possible.
A parliament of whores is what the GOP is and has always been.

spanone

(141,602 posts)
8. Yea, sure, he's turned his business over to the family. BULLSHIT.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 01:51 PM
Nov 2025

Imagine if Joe & Hunter did this?

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