Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
