Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/23/trump-tower-surfers-paradise-gold-coast-development-australia

Fucking Queensland...

Only there would this even be considered, let alone celebrated

Oh don't blame Queensland too much. I know plenty of people here who will cringe from this.

Why the fuck is this even being considered? I know, money, but c'mon Australia.....

Gold Coast mayor says he looks forward to considering a ‘formal development application’

"Looking forward to considering", sounds to me like a very formal way to say fuck off...

This is so embarrassing for all the Australian oligarchs. In their own backyard. Gina must be fuming! I can only imagine what Lowy must be thinking with his basket on a chopstick in the sky. I suppose its a stranded basket now.

Why are they using the developer's boastful claim as the article title? They could have gone with a neutral title stating that the development was being considered, or even negative title quoting someone who says it is a horrible idea. I wonder why they chose to use the positive quote like that...

I suppose maybe the answer to my question is that journalism is often now about being provocative rather than informative. By stoking people's emotions (usually anger), you get more engagement - which is apparently the only metric that matters these days.

Fuck off, Trump.

Gina was probably there when he came up with the idea.

What an embarrassment.

Honestly putting this idiots name on everything is pathetic.

"Looking forward to considering", sounds to me like a very formal way to say fuck off...

Or give me some more money you bastard.

Yeah, but think of all the builders, contractors, architects, tradies and taxes in Gold Coast that Trump will never pay for this.

Yeah but with Tommy and Crisafulli and the whole LNP who really are trying desperately to rub up to Trump to keep the far right from leaving for OneNation, I expect to see a lot more of this shit.

Gold Coast mayor says he looks forward to considering a ‘formal development application’

Maybe, maybe not.

Tom Tate has a history of being an utter whore for real estate developers.

He'd slather himself in horse diarrhea with a smile on his face if he thought it would get him a new bribe.

But an association with Trump might shock enough people to give him a hard chance to get re-elected.

So he's probably considering if he can get a big enough bribe to retire so it doesn't matter if he doesn't get back in.

It's going to be right next to Cavil Ave, the bar and club tourist road!

Just imagine all the schoolies and just tourists in general taking a shit on the front steps of any building with trump in the name.

There's so many tourist drones flying every night, you're going to get FPV drones launching bags of dog shit, buckets of paint, and spray painting giant cocks on the side of the building.

I'm hoping that it doesn't go ahead in the first place, but I'll settle for it being vandalised, and hopefully boycotted