Donald Trump has plans to take his love affair with the golf course he owns in New Jersey into eternity. Trump said yesterday he envisions himself and family members buried in vaults of a mausoleum he proposes building to the right of the first hole at Trump National Bedminster. "Hopefully I'll be around for a long time and I won't have to worry about it, but it certainly could fit the bill," he said yesterday in a phone interview. Planning board and state officials yesterday could not immediately cite regulations for legally building a mausoleum that was not part of a religious or non-denominational cemetery. "In all my years on the planning board, I don't think I've ever seen an application for a mausoleum," said Bedminster Planning Board member Paul Henderson, who has served for more than 15 years on the panel. "Bedminster would approve the building, but the state would approve it as a burial site," Henderson said. According to a spokesman for the state Division of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the New Jersey Cemetery Board, "local zoning approvals are the first step." A mausoleum may need additional approvals from the board, which normally licenses and oversees religious and non-denominational public cemeteries, said the spokesman, Jeff Lamm. Faced with the possibility of a long approval process, Trump said he was willing to start off simple, by calling the mausoleum building a wedding chapel. "We're planning a mausoleum/chapel," Trump said. Trump said the course is so beautiful he envisioned it being a final resting place for himself and family members. The family also has a plot in Queens, N.Y. A few lucky Trump National golf club members also may end up with the privilege of being buried in one of the vaults, he said. "Where can you find anything more beautiful than this? The club is beautiful. Bedminster is beautiful," Trump said. Trump insisted he had no pressing need to build a mausoleum any time soon and assured that he was in "100 percent good health." "Just for the future," he said. "It's a good thing to plan."
Newark Star-Ledger
I don't know about you, but I would not want to get married in what will someday be someone's permanent final resting place. And I really thought he would want to be buried someone more grand like the lobby of Trump Towers.
