Georgia's then-President Mikheil Saakashvili and Donald Trump appeared in March 2011 to announce plans to build two Trump-branded towers in Georgia, one in the Black Sea resort of Batumi and one in the capital city, Tbilisi. Days after Donald Trump's election victory, a news agency in the former Soviet republic of Georgia reported that a long-stalled plan for a Trump-branded tower in a seaside Georgian resort town was now back on track.