Ivana Trump, ex-wife of ex-president Donald Trump and mother of Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, was laid to rest late last month near the first hole of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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Photos of her gravesite began circulating on Twitter over the weekend and, well, we think the images speak for themselves:
Doubt there is a new low? This is the miserly grave of Ivana Trump, also known as a tax break for her ex-husband. pic.twitter.com/Tozbyp33LY
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) July 31, 2022
Yes, that is actually Ivana Trump’s current gravesite. And no, this is not a joke.
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Now, you may be wondering why anyone would be buried on a golf course. Turns out, it might all be part of Trump’s tax evasion strategy, er, plan. Surprised? Neither are we.
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New Jersey tax code exempts cemetery land from all taxes, rates, and assessments. By burying his ex-wife on his golf course, Trump now has yet another way of avoiding taxes on the 520-acre property. Or at least on the approximately 10-acres around where Ivana is buried.
He already gets a deep discount by growing hay and raising a small herd of goats on the land, which allows him to claim the estate is used for “agriculture”, thus qualifying it as “farmland”, which reduces his tax bill from $80,000 to less than $1,000.
New Jersey’s tax code also exempts cemeteries from from business taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and inheritance taxes. It doesn’t take much to see where this is going.
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Brooke Harrington, professor of sociology at Dartmouth college in New Hampshire, dug into the matter and discovered that, yep, the whole thing appears to be a “trifecta of tax avoidance.”
On Saturday, she tweeted: “As a tax researcher, I was skeptical of rumors Trump buried his ex-wife in that sad little plot of dirt on his Bedminster, NJ golf course just for tax breaks. So I checked the NJ tax code & folks…it’s a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated.”
As a tax researcher, I was skeptical of rumors Trump buried his ex-wife in that sad little plot of dirt on his Bedminster, NJ golf course just for tax breaks.
So I checked the NJ tax code & folks…it's a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated. pic.twitter.com/VDZBlDyuhQ
— Brooke Harrington (@EBHarrington) July 31, 2022
In 2015, Trump received the approval to build a family cemetery at his Bedminster golf course that would include a classical mausoleum. The twice-impeached ex-president has indicated that he wants to be buried there after he dies.
“It’s never something you like to think about, but it makes sense,” he told Page Six in 2007. “This is such beautiful land, and Bedminster is one of the richest places in the country.”
Here’s how folx on Twitter have been reacting to the whole thing…
Doubt there is a new low? This is the miserly grave of Ivana Trump, also known as a tax break for her ex-husband. pic.twitter.com/Tozbyp33LY
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) July 31, 2022
Trump buried his ex-wife Ivana — whom he raped & cheated on with Marla Maples — at his Bedminster Club for a tax break. Then, he played golf on her grave while taking Saudi Arabian blood-money. I never want to hear the media criticize Biden for spending the weekend in Delaware.
— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) July 31, 2022
Ivana's grave might be the most bizarre thing yet about the Trumps.
My God, what is wrong with these people? pic.twitter.com/NsXsN2i7Um
— SCOTUS is now just a political org (@DaleGeldart) July 31, 2022
The Ivana story got even worse
By burying her in a pauper’s grave at his golf course, Trump has evaded property, sales & income taxes
Worst of all her kids let it happen! Ivanka desecrated her own mom, who has become in death nothing more than Trump’s latest tax evasion scheme
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) July 31, 2022
Ivana Trump’s Grave site …. ?Hmm can’t help but wonder if Melania had anything to do with the planning? pic.twitter.com/T0W8Qfjw6k
— Beyond My 4 Walls (@VWalls4) July 31, 2022
After they arrest Trump, they should dig up Ivana’s grave and see what he really buried there.
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) August 1, 2022
When I saw this earlier, I thought it was a joke. Then I Googled it. Who gets buried at a golf course? And how can Ivana rest with Trump sweating over her grave all the time? pic.twitter.com/0sKkyo1amy
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) July 30, 2022
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump asked for money to allow people to visit Ivana's grave.
— Kiki (@Kikokiki_txt) July 30, 2022
It will look better once they install the putt putt windmill for the trick shots. pic.twitter.com/SSLHA2WheY
— ™ (@FrancisWegner) July 29, 2022
Now that we know Ivana Trump is buried next to the first hole of Trump’s golf course, we can assume that Melania will be buried on the third hole. Right?
— Mayo ? (@MayoIsSpicyy) July 30, 2022
Jim
Donald using corpses to save a buck.
Is anyone really surprised?
prarie pup
Nope. Not at all.
Cam
And her monster children are fine with this.
JohnMc888
According to their weird eulogies at her Funeral Mass she was quite an abusive monster to them.
JohnMc888
The New Jersey law reads “dedicated” to use as a cemetery. That golf course is dedicated to being a golf course, not a cemetery. You can’t just bury a dead relatives in your back yard and stop paying property taxes on your house. This version of the story may be deliberately leaving out the wording of the law that uses the term “dedicated.” Other versions leave in that key word. Maybe Trump would get a miniscule reduction in his golf course taxes because a tiny part is ‘dedicated” to being a graveyard.
This viral story seems to me to be a click bait distortion of the facts.
Who knows, Trump might be planning to turn the golf course into a real cemetery with people purchasing 99 year plots at outrageous prices just to be near one of America’s Trump queens.
abfab
Par for the course for this fat, slimy, ugly, scuzzy, disgusting POS.
LMG
When can we expect the miniature golf course that will be built to surround the grave? Every time we have a winner, he or she gets a free plot that will be artistically arranged around Ivana’s. Notice, there are no red roses currently on the latter’s grave. Only white. T has pre-ordered a ton of Marigolds for his own. C’est la vie!
Matthewnow
It’s ok president orange face (intentional lower case), I hear it’s a dry heat.
Josh in OR
I can’t figure out how her EX husband (and rapist) gets to have ANY say on where she’s buried.
That said, this doesn’t at all surprise me. Trump is and has always been three times as much human excrement as can comfortably fit in his ugly suits…
andrewl
I am neither a Trump supporter nor a Trump apologist. However, one thing to point out is that when a grave has been freshly dug and filled, one has to wait months for the soil to settle before a headstone can be installed. Until then any grave will appear forlorn.
Fahd
As rich as these people allegedly are, that’s the flower arrangement left on the grave? Why did she trust them to do right by her? Surely she knew with whom she was dealing. Who was the lawyer who drew up Ivana’s will?
still_onthemark
The tweets are funny, especially the one with the putt-putt golf windmill. But it would never happen because Trump is sure windmills cause cancer!
abfab
How do we know she’s really in there.
bachy
One thing you can say about The Failure 45 Show is that it’s consistent.
Consistently dreadful.
SiamSean
She is not buried at the golf course. That in itself is a scam.
Bromancer7
Let’s not forget that Ivana was also a horrible person, and this ending is quite befitting of a woman who was a real-life monster herself. Sociopaths eating themselves alive, and I’m a-OK with all of it.
maxdadmark
Agree 100%
winemaker
Can the hatemongers ever let go of something and let the dead rest in peace? Just what maliciousness has Ivana Trump done to the gay community? Really Ivana Trump and Donald Trump were divorced 30 years ago after a very tumultuous marriage and an even more public and bitter divorce. After the divorce, both went on with their lives and Ivana pretty much stayed out of the limelight and public for years. Time to let it go.
johncp56
??? let what go missy, he is a scum bucket, reason this is a topic is just this they were divorced and he uses her dead body for a tax right off LOL what hatemongering he is trashing the gay Community even harder now, so yes it is open for debate, the guy is scum at the bottom of a out house
johncp56
Cant say I do not like a tax loop hole myself, but this is scummy from the scummiest of them all, wow