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BumRushDaShow

(154,085 posts)
Fri May 16, 2025, 05:12 PM May 16

Vietnam approves Trump Organization's $1.5 billion golf, real estate project

Source: ABC News/AP

May 16, 2025, 7:42 AM


HANOI, Vietnam -- HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has approved a $1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its Vietnamese partner to build golf courses, hotels and real estate projects in the Southeast Asian country, state-run media reported Friday.

The project spanning 990 hectares (2,446 acres) in northern Vietnam's Khoai Chau district will include a golf course the size 336 American football fields, residential areas, commercial spaces and parks. The decision approving the investment was signed by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, the VN Express newspaper reported.

Vietnam is heading into negotiations with the U.S. in a bid to avoid the 46% tariffs on its exports announced by President Donald Trump's administration. Vietnam also has been facing heat from Washington for not doing enough to prevent the diversion of Chinese goods through its borders.

The investment project was announced by Vietnamese real estate developer Kinhbac City, which partnered with Trump’s family business in October.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/vietnam-approves-trump-organizations-15-billion-golf-real-121868917



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stillcool

(33,989 posts)
1. pocket a billion here, a few billion there...
Fri May 16, 2025, 05:21 PM
May 16

free lawyers, free everything! What a long, strange, trip this has been.

surfered

(7,155 posts)
2. I spent most of my career as self employed, but I started as an employee. My employer would have never allowed me...
Fri May 16, 2025, 05:24 PM
May 16

Last edited Sat May 17, 2025, 06:57 AM - Edit history (1)

...to have the side gigs Trump has. Should the taxpayer be paying his salary when we's working for himself?

artemisia1

(1,067 posts)
9. So Trump is finally going to make his way to Vietnam? After all these years and bonespurs later? /nt
Sat May 17, 2025, 02:50 AM
May 17

kimbutgar

(25,255 posts)
10. But Hunter Biden's laptop and Burisma ?
Sat May 17, 2025, 01:22 PM
May 17

Aren’t those bigger scandals.?

These are scandals of many on steroids coming at us quickly, gold planes for free and other gifts not reported yet. But the IOKIYAR syndrome still works and the mainstream media will go ho hum nothing to see here yawn🥱

Wonder Why

(5,843 posts)
11. So that's what Johnson missed! Instead of the troops, we should have sent grass seed and
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:14 PM
May 17

dropped golf balls from the B52s.

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