Judge Blocks Trump Presidential Library Land Transfer in Miami

When I read that a Florida judge blocked the land transfer for Donald Trump’s presidential library, I had to laugh. Not because it is funny, but because it is so predictable. Every time Trump tries to do something good or lasting, someone shows up to stop it. It is like a law of nature at this point.

The story is simple. Miami Dade College owns a valuable three-acre piece of land downtown. The state of Florida approved the plan to transfer it to the foundation for Trump’s presidential library. The land is worth more than sixty-seven million dollars and sits near the historic Freedom Tower. That location alone makes it a symbolic choice. It fits. A library for a president who stood for freedom near a landmark that honors it.

Did Miami Dade College break the law when they gave land to Trump? pic.twitter.com/RwVSrpqMDP

— Dr. Marvin Dunn (@MarvinDunn4) September 28, 2025

But then an activist named Marvin Dunn filed a lawsuit to block the deal. He said the college board did not give the public enough notice before the vote. The judge, Mavel Ruiz, agreed. She said it was not about politics, just about process. Sure. Because nothing in Miami or in American politics ever has a hint of politics behind it.

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Marvin Dunn, an activist and chronicler of local Black history, filed a lawsuit this month in a Miami-Dade County court against the Board of Trustees for Miami Dade College, a state-run school that owned the property. He alleged that the board violated Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law by not providing sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to give up the land.

An agenda released ahead of the meeting simply stated the board would consider conveying property to a state fund overseen by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet, but provided no details on which piece of property was being considered or why. Unlike every other meeting the board has held this year, the 8 a.m. meeting on Sept. 23 was not livestreamed.

A week later, DeSantis and other top GOP officials voted to transfer the land again, effectively putting the property under the control of the Trump family when they deeded it to the foundation for Trump’s library. That foundation is led by three trustees: Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump’s husband, Michael Boulos, and the president’s attorney James Kiley. – NBC News

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Let me put it another way. Trump builds peace in the Middle East. He brings manufacturing back home. And keeps America out of new wars. The president deserves a library to record it all. But now we are supposed to believe this is really about public meeting notices. Give me a break.

The same people who ignored open meetings when their side was in charge suddenly care deeply about procedure. They call it “transparency.” I call it selective outrage.

This judge is a longtime Miami-Dade circuit court judge. She is elected in a heavily Democrat county. She once received a public reprimand for stepping into gray ethical territory over a letter she signed years ago. But now she is the one who gets to decide whether Trump’s foundation followed every fine-print rule. You can almost hear the cheers from the local activist crowd.

As for Marvin Dunn, he is not some random local protester. He is a retired professor and historian who has made a career out of activism. He runs a group called the Miami Center for Racial Justice. They do bus tours and hold marches about what they see as whitewashing history. He has gone after Governor DeSantis over Florida’s curriculum. Now he is going after Trump’s library project. Different target, same script.

I will give him credit for one thing. He knows how to pick his battles. The Freedom Tower means a lot to Miami’s Cuban exile community and to Florida history. It is a symbol of people who fled socialism and found freedom here — in the United States of America, not Cuba. But somehow, this lawsuit turns that same symbol into a protest against an American president. By filing it, Dunn managed to wrap himself in the flag of “civil rights” while attacking a project that celebrates American success. He turned a land deal into a political crusade, and the judge went right along with it.

Meanwhile, Trump cannot even get a library built without a lawsuit. It is wild. Every other president has a library. Obama’s broke ground in Chicago with half the city under protest, and yet it still went forward. Clinton has one. Bush has one. Carter has one. But Trump’s is treated like a crime scene before the first brick is even laid.

And this is after he won the election by a landslide — a real mandate from the American people. That should mean something. But apparently in today’s America, one activist with a lawyer and one judge with a gavel can still crash the party. It shows just how much power the system gives to the loudest voice in the room, not the majority. One person’s outrage can outweigh millions of votes. That is not democracy. That is sabotage dressed up as civic virtue.

People love to say he brings controversy wherever he goes. That is not true. What happens is the Left brings controversy wherever he goes. The left cannot stand the idea of a Trump library filled with records of peace deals, strong borders, and economic wins. What they want is to make the narrative negative. They do not want the receipts on display.

If you ask me, the Miami library fight is not about real estate. It is about rewriting history before it gets archived. The activist class knows Trump’s record speaks for itself. They cannot erase it, so they will try to bury it under paperwork and lawsuits.

But here is the thing about Trump. He builds. He built towers, a movement, a presidency, and a global peace legacy. A court order might slow him down, but it will not stop him. His story will still get told — whether in Miami or somewhere else that actually believes in fairness.

Because history has a funny way of sorting itself out. And no judge, no activist, and no lawsuit can stop that from happening.

Feature Image: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons/edited in Canva Pro