The Great Immigration Party of Mar-a-Lago - MAGA: "Make Everything Thoroughly Swept Out"

There is something touching about the way Donald Trump proves year after year that no one floods the United States with foreign workers more consistently than he does himself – only in places where it personally benefits him. While he stands on stages talking about “migrant floods” that supposedly “destroy everything,” his own company quietly sets new records. One hundred eighty four foreign workers this year alone – for Mar-a-Lago, his golf clubs, and even a winery that would likely collapse without cheap harvest labor.

One has to picture it: the man who wants to bolt the border shut so that “not a single foreigner comes in” has been importing more people for his private businesses for years than some medium sized American companies. Since 2008, the Trump Organization has requested exactly 2,033 foreign workers through H-2A and H-2B visas. And in 2025 he adds another 184 applications on top – a record year for America’s “anti immigration president.” And these are not highly specialized workers the country urgently needs. No, Trump mainly requires:

• Dishwashers
• Maids
• Waiters
• Kitchen staff
• Farm workers

All jobs he publicly claims are being “taken away from Americans.” Except, of course, in his world, where American workers simply are not good enough to serve the shrimp platter at the golf club.

Mar-a-Lago also applied for foreign seasonal workers again for the 2026/27 season. In just three current H-2B job postings, the club is looking for 55 waiters, 27 cooks and 20 housekeepers.

Trump has long since invented his own Golden Visa program. The absurd "Trump Gold Cards" - an instrument that offers foreign nationals permanent residency + a path to citizenship, provided they pay $100,000 for an H-1B visa. It is the perfect embodiment of his philosophy: Immigration is bad, unless it makes money for him.

In the Fox interview with Laura Ingraham on November 11, 2025, the double standard briefly became visible. Trump suddenly praised H-1B visas, which he otherwise wanted to abolish, as "necessary for special talent." Ingraham pushed back halfheartedly - but she knows it too: Without foreign workers, Mar-a-Lago would probably have to shut down in December because there would be nobody around to clean up the buffet mess left over from the Halloween party.

Even more telling is which businesses are currently craving new staff. Among the locations now applying for foreign workers are two that were previously searched for allegedly improper handling of classified documents. An investigation that – what a coincidence – was dropped after Trump’s 2024 election victory. Perhaps they simply lacked the maids to properly store the sensitive boxes. Trump continues to control his brand personally through the “Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust” and earns income from each of these businesses while simultaneously serving as president. It is legally questionable, morally grotesque, and politically a gift to every satirist – but ultimately perfectly consistent.

Because no one embodies the phrase “Do as I say, not as I do” with more devotion than Donald Trump, who denounces immigration while remaining his own small, highly efficient importer of cheap labor. Mar-a-Lago as a beacon of the green card – but only for those who make no demands, cannot vote, and cost less than minimum wage in New Jersey. One should almost thank him: rarely has anyone shown so unintentionally clearly where right wing anti immigration policy truly fails. Not in ideology. But in the simple question: who is supposed to make the beds?

M A G A - Make America Gleaming Again

The foreigner has two faces, and both are called out by the same mouth. At the rally, he is the danger, the man who drives down wages and waters down the country. In the books of those same people, he is the hand that makes the bed and brings in the harvest. Trump orders seasonal workers for his hotels and golf courses while condemning immigration in the same breath. The AfD demands hard-line deportations and keeps a back door open for the fields, even at lower wages.

What is being sold here is a country that is never actually supposed to exist. Voters are promised a pure Germany, a pure America, for a tomorrow that never comes because kitchens and fields would fall silent overnight. The enemy is needed so the numbers work and tolerated the moment he keeps quiet and works. That is how isolationism lives off the very hands it wants to drive out. The foreigner is only a problem for as long as he is worth more as an enemy than as a worker.