Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend 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 missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
