Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
