President Donald Trump released an AI-generated video Monday showing preliminary designs for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Museum, planned for Miami’s waterfront — the location Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced last September. The clip offers a first look at a multi-story tower bearing the familiar TRUMP logo and a series of interior renderings meant to evoke White House motifs and grand event spaces.
The visuals depict a columned, West Wing-like colonnade, an auditorium, a very large ballroom described as akin to plans Trump has floated for an East Wing replacement, a replica Oval Office dressed in the president’s updated decor, a sweeping amphitheater and a prominent gold statue of Trump. The overall aesthetic mirrors the branding and scale of other Trump properties.
Eric Trump shared the video on X, saying he had devoted six months to the project. In a phone interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, the president praised the design, rated his son’s work highly and said the site will likely include a hotel. He also indicated he does not want construction to begin until after he leaves office.
The video appears to show a large jet reported to have been gifted by Qatar — characterized in earlier reports as a roughly $400 million “unconditional gift” — positioned as a central exhibit. Trump told reporters the property would “most likely” be a hotel with a 747 Air Force One in the lobby. Earlier reporting said a memorandum of understanding, signed by then-Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Qatar’s minister of state for defense affairs, envisioned the Qatari plane being transferred to the presidential library foundation after Trump’s term.
Placing an aircraft alongside museum exhibits follows the precedent of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, which displays Reagan’s Air Force One. The rendering shows the jet in the powder-blue livery of the current Air Force One, but the mid-February Air Force announcement confirmed a new color scheme for future Air Force Ones — including the Qatari jet — featuring dark blue with red and gold striping, so the actual plane is expected to look different.
Funding for the library remains unclear. The initial 501(c)(3) established for the project dissolved last year and did not file an annual report; the new foundation set up for the effort has not yet produced annual filings. ABC News reporters Jonathan Karl, Luis Martinez and Luc Bruggeman contributed to coverage of this story.