Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
