Democrats spent years screaming that Trump was destroying American institutions.
Now they're suing to stop him from building one.
A group of Miami residents just filed a lawsuit to block Trump's presidential library – and what they revealed about who's actually behind it makes the whole thing look even more embarrassing for them.
The George Soros Group Running This Lawsuit
The complaint was filed by the Constitutional Accountability Center in Washington, D.C.
George Soros's Foundation to Promote Open Society has funded the CAC.
The group's own website announces it is "dedicated to fulfilling the inherently progressive promise of the Constitution's text and history."
They've filed over 200 amicus briefs – including cases against Trump's tax returns, against Hobby Lobby's religious freedom, and against Citizens United.
This isn't a group of concerned Miami neighbors who woke up one day worried about constitutional principles.
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This is a Soros-funded legal operation that has been suing Trump since before his first term ended, recycling the same legal theory with a new set of plaintiffs.
The four names on the lawsuit are a Miami Dade College student, two nearby residents, and a local activist named Marvin Dunn whose nonprofit had hoped to use the land.
Dunn already filed a lawsuit over this same property in 2024.
A federal judge dismissed it in December, lifted his own temporary injunction, and allowed the land transfer to move forward.
The state officially handed the property to Trump's foundation in January.
Now the CAC shows up two months later with a brand new complaint targeting the same deal.
What They're Actually Trying to Stop
The property is 2.63 acres of downtown Miami waterfront, sitting next to the Freedom Tower – the building that served as a resource center for hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing communism.
Gov. Ron DeSantis transferred it to Trump's presidential library foundation last September.
Miami-Dade County values it at roughly $67 million.
Real estate experts cited in the lawsuit itself believe it could be worth hundreds of millions more.
Trump's vision for the site isn't a modest archive with filing cabinets.
Eric Trump and the president unveiled plans for a gleaming glass skyscraper – Trump's name in gold across the facade, a gold escalator in the lobby, a replica Oval Office, rooftop gardens, a 747 Air Force One parked on the first floor, and a large gold statue of Trump himself.
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Trump told reporters in March: "I don't believe in building libraries or museums. This concept could be an office, but it's most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath."
That's what set the left off.
The White House wasn't rattled.
Spokesman Davis Ingle fired back: "President Trump is one of the most consequential and successful presidents in American history – a leader who has fought tirelessly to deliver for the forgotten men and women of this country and Make America Great Again. The Trump Presidential Library will be one of the most magnificent buildings in the world and a living testament to the indelible impact President Trump has made on America and its people."
A Legal Theory That Has Never Once Won
The Domestic Emoluments Clause argument is not new.
Democrats raised it during Trump's first term over his Washington D.C. hotel, arguing that foreign governments staying at the property were making unconstitutional payments to a sitting president.
The Supreme Court dismissed the most prominent version of that case in 2021 as moot after Trump left office.
Courts have never enforced the Domestic Emoluments Clause against a sitting president in American history.
The CAC's lawyers know this.
They're not filing a lawsuit they expect to win in court.
They're filing a lawsuit they expect to win in the press – generating headlines about Trump and "corruption" and "constitutional violations" that his political enemies can clip and share.
Florida saw this coming.
The Republican-controlled state legislature passed a law last year specifically barring local governments from using zoning and regulatory rules to block presidential libraries, and DeSantis signed it.
The courts already cleared the land transfer.
The Soros-funded lawyers are trying to undo in federal court what a judge already permitted in December.
Trump Builds. They File. Nothing Changes.
Every time Trump wins something – a court ruling, an election, a legislative victory – the left files another lawsuit.
They did it with the travel ban.
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They did it with the border wall.
None of it stopped him.
A Soros-funded legal group recycling a constitutional argument that courts have never once enforced isn't going to stop him from building a 50-story skyscraper in Miami either.
The Trump Presidential Library is going up next to the Freedom Tower – a monument to people who fled socialism – in a Miami that flipped Republican and never looked back.
Trump is going to build that library.
The only question is how many losing lawsuits the left racks up trying to stop it.
Sources:
- Safiyah Riddle, "Trump and DeSantis Sued Over Donation of Miami Land for Extravagant Presidential Library," Associated Press, May 14, 2026.
- "Constitutional Accountability Center," InfluenceWatch.org, accessed May 2026.
- Davis Ingle, White House statement on Trump Presidential Library, May 14, 2026, via NBC News.
- "Sistrunk Seeds v. Trump," Constitutional Accountability Center, theusconstitution.org, May 2026.
