Prez pulls out of Doral plan
Don nixes G-7 meeting
President Trump said Saturday that he will no longer host the G-7 Summit at his financially struggling Miami golf resort — but blamed the media and Democrats for his about-face, rather than concern over an appearance of self-dealing.
Trump made the announcement in a trio of evening tweets that lashed out at his Democratic rivals and at press opposition — which included an editorial in the New York Post — to his holding the summit at Trump National Doral.
“I thought I was doing something very good for our Country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G-7 Leaders,” the president tweeted.
“It is big, grand, on hundreds of acres, next to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has tremendous ballrooms & meeting rooms, and each delegation would have its own 50 to 70 unit building,” Trump wrote.
“I announced that I would be willing to do it at NO PROFIT or, if legally permissible, at ZERO COST to the USA. But, as usual, the Hostile Media & their Democrat Partners went CRAZY!” he added.
“Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020,” he concluded.
“We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately. Thank you!”
Plans to host the summit had earned bipartisan condemnation.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said choosing Doral “is among the most brazen examples yet of the President’s corruption. He is exploiting his office and making official U.S. government decisions for his personal financial gain.”