It’s not a military invasion this time, and it doesn’t directly involve Donald Trump himself. But it’s just as insidious, and almost as destructive.

While Trump gleefully dismantles America’s ocean monitoring systems and dismantles environmental protections across the country, his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner are happily occupied with their latest project: building multi-billion-dollar private resorts on what were protected wetlands in Albania.

The project would include the construction of hotel complexes in the Vjosa-Narta coastal region in the community of Zvernec, as well as on the uninhabited island of Sazan — currently home to flamingos, Mediterranean monk seals, and nesting sites of sea turtles, all of whom would be losing their homes to a playground for the rich and infamous. Excavators have already begun clearing pine forests and dunes, and erecting barbed-wire fences to keep locals and tourists away from their beaches.

But there is trouble in the Albanian paradise. When it was recently revealed that Prime Minister Edi Rama had been secretly facilitating the project by pushing through legislation in 2024 changing the protected status of the regions, the people revolted, taking to the streets of Tirana en masse and demanding Rama’s resignation.

Chanting “Cancel the project,” and carrying banners reading “Albania is not for sale” and “Ivanka, go home,” the protesters demanded that the project be stopped because of concerns over environmental damage and government corruption. [Agence France Presser, June 2, 2026.]

And now Albania’s Special Anti-corruption Prosecution office, known as SPAK, has opened a formal investigation into how that change to Vjosa-Narta’s protected status was quietly orchestrated. [Occupy Democrats, June 2. 2026.]

There seems to be no limit to the lengths the Trump family will go to in order to further line their already overflowing pockets, without giving a moment’s consideration to the impact on other people’s lives or the world’s natural environment.

Here’s hoping the good people of Albania are able to win this one for the flamingos, the monk seals and the sea turtles, and send Jared and Ivanka packing. The world doesn’t need more Trump Towers.

Enough is enough.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
6/3/26