Trumps, on a Deal-Making Spree, Turn Next to Transylvania

Source: New York Times

Trumps, on a Deal-Making Spree, Turn Next to Transylvania

The president’s company is eyeing a site for a golf course and luxury apartments. Will a huge landfill and a troubled project history stand in the way?


The Trump Organization is considering a real estate project in Romania that would be near a landfill and a makeshift settlement known as Pata Rat. Andreea Campeanu for The New York Times

By Rebecca R. Ruiz and Andrei Petre
Rebecca Ruiz and Andrei Petre reported from Bucharest and Cluj, Romania, where the Trump Organization is planning projects.

March 20, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET

The Trump Organization has for decades planted the family name in places synonymous with business and luxury tourism: Manhattan, Los Angeles, Honolulu. Its global ambitions include Australia, Bali and the Maldives.

Now, President Trump’s family business is setting its sights on Transylvania, the central Romanian home to literature’s Count Dracula. The company has selected, records and interviews show, a site alongside one of the region’s biggest landfills and a former medical waste dump.

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