At the Saturday night opening of the clubhouse of the Trump International Golf Club, Dubai, guests munched on mini chicken burgers<br />and sipped fizzy lemonade while Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s adult sons, lauded the ruler of Dubai and their business partner, Hussain Sajwani.<br />President Trump’s adult sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., attended the opening of the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai.<br />Eric Trump, who with his older brother helps run the Trump Organization now<br />that their father is president, said before the Dubai event that the company was not the owner of either development, but only collected a small share of the revenues, and that it did not control who bought the units in Vancouver or the membership list at the golf course in Dubai.<br />Mr. Sajwani, a billionaire businessman who, like Mr. Trump, built his wealth through real estate, told the crowd<br />that working with the Trumps “was and continues to be a pleasure.”<br />On the other side of the world, in Vancouver, British Columbia, preparations continued for another ribbon-cutting, on Feb. 28, at a new Trump hotel<br />and condo project there, funded by the Malaysian tycoon Tiah Thee Kian and his son, Tiah Joo Kim.<br />“The Trump name represents quality,” said Bill Streeper, the mayor of the Northern Rockies municipality in British Columbia<br />and a major real estate developer, who bought a unit in the tower on the 55th floor in 2013, long before Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination<br />Questions swirled about the commitment of Mr. Sajwani, a Muslim in a predominately Muslim country, to the Trump brand in 2015, after Mr. Trump said<br />that if elected, he would impose a ban on Muslims entering the United States.<br />Mr. Trump’s companies, according to a financial disclosure report, were paid $1 million to $5 million for the Dubai golf course project last<br />year, with another $1 million to $5 million coming from a second Dubai golf course still being built, also in partnership with Mr. Sajwani.
