Why a luxury compound funded by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is drawing protests
Source: USA Today
Published 2:23 p.m. ET March 25, 2025 | Updated 3:45 p.m. ET March 25, 2025
Serbians are not happy with Jared Kushner's latest real estate venture.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Serbia's capital Belgrade on Monday to protest a project by Kushner – President Donald Trump's son-in-law – to transform a pair of buildings bombed by NATO 26 years ago into a Trump tower and luxury hotel.
The real estate development, funded by a Kushner-founded investment firm, has touched off a firestorm of opposition in the Balkan nation, fed by cascading anger over government corruption.
Kushner's firm plans Trump tower in Belgrade
Monday's protest centered on two buildings in downtown Belgrade damaged when NATO bombed the area in 1999 while the region was embroiled in conflict. Last year, Affinity Global Development, a real estate firm founded by Kushner in 2021, struck a deal to turn the site of the bombing into a 30-floor, 820,000-square-foot luxury complex, including towers with the signature "Trump" logo, according to design pictures on the firm's website.
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Yet we don't have the money for USAID?! 
