Previous plans for a Trump Tower in Queensland almost 20 years ago went the way of other imagined edifices in Rio, Batumi and Tijuana

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Five towers rise from the port of Rio de Janeiro, each 38 storeys high, together the largest office complex in Brazil. A 47-storey glass monolith of luxury residential condominiums and a casino soars above the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi. An ocean resort in Tijuana, Mexico looms over the Pacific.

Separated by continents, two things unite these projects. One is the name emblazoned upon their peaks like crowns: Trump. The other is the fact they were never built, existing only in the archives of the internet as breathy press releases and glossy renders.