1. I question whether Trump has the legitimate authority to do this, even if he declares a national emergency (as the proposal requests). So it would be tied up in court for an extended period... unless the city doesn't fight it.

2. The city will fight it, unless they think it's going to work, thereby bringing in large numbers of jobs and lots of tax revenue. They might fight it anyway, just because having the Federal government take city land is a really bad precedent.

3. This guy (James Ingallinera, but from all I see he's just some guy) has no particular experience at making something like this actually work. He's just some random guy. Does anybody have any confidence that anything will actually come of this, even if Trump bought it?

4. What does this say about where we are as a country, that we have random people asking the president to take 500 acres from someone else by executive order, and to give it to them? That has way too much of a "random peasants petitioning the king for favor" vibe for my bred-in-a-democracy taste.