At the Saturday night opening of the clubhouse of the Trump International Golf Club, Dubai, guests munched on mini chicken burgers
and sipped fizzy lemonade while Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s adult sons, lauded the ruler of Dubai and their business partner, Hussain Sajwani.
President Trump’s adult sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., attended the opening of the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai.
Eric Trump, who with his older brother helps run the Trump Organization now
that their father is president, said before the Dubai event that the company was not the owner of either development, but only collected a small share of the revenues, and that it did not control who bought the units in Vancouver or the membership list at the golf course in Dubai.
Mr. Sajwani, a billionaire businessman who, like Mr. Trump, built his wealth through real estate, told the crowd
that working with the Trumps “was and continues to be a pleasure.”
On the other side of the world, in Vancouver, British Columbia, preparations continued for another ribbon-cutting, on Feb. 28, at a new Trump hotel
and condo project there, funded by the Malaysian tycoon Tiah Thee Kian and his son, Tiah Joo Kim.
“The Trump name represents quality,” said Bill Streeper, the mayor of the Northern Rockies municipality in British Columbia
and a major real estate developer, who bought a unit in the tower on the 55th floor in 2013, long before Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination
Questions swirled about the commitment of Mr. Sajwani, a Muslim in a predominately Muslim country, to the Trump brand in 2015, after Mr. Trump said
that if elected, he would impose a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Mr. Trump’s companies, according to a financial disclosure report, were paid $1 million to $5 million for the Dubai golf course project last
year, with another $1 million to $5 million coming from a second Dubai golf course still being built, also in partnership with Mr. Sajwani.
