Vietnam Farmers Moved for Trump Golf Club Offered Fistful of Dollars, Rice

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just $3,200 and rice provisions in return.

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Farmers in Vietnam are being forced off their land for the equivalent of just one just a few thousand dollars each to make room for a $1.5 billion Trump golf course.

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-- The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) Aug 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM

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... The project is the first partnership for the family business of U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam, which fast-tracked approvals as it negotiated a crucial trade deal with Washington.

Developers are now cutting compensation forecasts from an initial estimate exceeding $500 million, said one person familiar with the plans who declined to elaborate on reasons for the reduction.

Trump's family business will run the club once completed, but is not involved in the investment and in compensation to farmers.

Trump has said his assets in the businesses are held in a trust managed by his children, but disclosures in June showed income from those sources ultimately accrues to the president. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-11 01:38 PM | Reply

This kind of thing makes me wonder what that whole Vietnam War thing was about.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-11 02:30 PM | Reply

So, it seems that in order for Vietnam to get a good trade agreement with Pres Trump, Hanoi apparently had to bribe Trump, Inc?

More selling of the occupancy of his Oval Office for grift?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-11 02:32 PM | Reply

They are brown.

They don't need much. They don't even use chairs there! A couple dollars, a bar of chocolate and a pack of Marlboros is a real treat for them. And they got rice, too?

Lucky bastages.

(Did I do that right maga maroons?)

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-12 12:49 PM | Reply

(Did I do that right maga maroons?)

#4 | Posted by donnerboy

Being a racist? Yes.

#5 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-12 01:55 PM | Reply

Being a racist? Yes.

#5 | Posted by boaz

Who is the klan voting for these days? Same party as you? Strange...

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-12 03:12 PM | Reply