--- title: Trump Backs Down on Hosting G7 at His Florida Resort description: President Donald Trump has backed down on plans to host next year's Group of Seven (G7) meeting at his Trump National Doral Miami resort in Florida. canonical: https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/ author: Tara Law article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-20T14:34:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T21:04:09.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Backs Down on Hosting G7 Meeting at His Florida Doral Resort og:description: Even though he felt the resort would be a "very good" location og:url: https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00069c4ae2d3606f/698a0492b21a9c9ef150289b/trump-national-doral.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Trump-Doral-Resort-G7 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Backs Down on Hosting G7 Meeting at His Florida Doral Resort twitter:description: Even though he felt the resort would be a "very good" location twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00069c4ae2d3606f/698a0492b21a9c9ef150289b/trump-national-doral.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Backs Down on Hosting G7 Meeting at His Florida Doral Resort > Sponsored content. 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The White House has concluded that the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort is the “best place” to hold the annual G7 summit, which brings together leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States._  by [Tara Law](https://time.com/author/tara-law/)  ## Tara Law Updated: Dec 12, 2023 9:04 PM UTCPublished: Oct 20, 2019 2:34 PM UTC  A sign is seen near the front entrance to the Trump National Doral golf resort owned by U.S. President Donald Trump's company on October 17, 2019 in Doral, Florida. A sign is seen near the front entrance to the Trump National Doral golf resort owned by U.S. President Donald Trump's company on October 17, 2019 in Doral, Florida. Joe Raedle—Getty Images  by [Tara Law](https://time.com/author/tara-law/)  ## Tara Law Updated: Dec 12, 2023 9:04 PM UTCPublished: Oct 20, 2019 2:34 PM UTC President Donald Trump has backed down on plans to host next year’s Group of Seven (G7) meeting at his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Florida. Plans to hold the [June 2020 meeting](https://time.com/5657375/what-is-g7/) between the U.S. and some of its most powerful allies at the luxury resort [were announced on Oct. 17](https://time.com/5703794/trump-g7-summit-doral/) by Trump’s acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. The announcement has been roundly criticized by both Democrats and Republicans. Some [voiced concerns](https://time.com/5703794/trump-g7-summit-doral/) that the summit would raise the profile of the resort and benefit Trump financially during Florida’s summer off-season, and at a time when the facility is beset with financial difficulties, according to financial documents viewed by the [Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-announces-that-his-doral-golf-resort-in-miami-will-no-longer-host-next-years-g-7-summit-after-criticism/2019/10/19/857361d0-f2dd-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa%5Fstory.html). In a series of tweets on Saturday night, Trump announced that he had decided to move the meeting even though he felt the resort would be a “very good” location. “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. Would set up better than other alternatives,” 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 said that other locations, including Camp David, will be considered as venues. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1185726930764611589) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1185735579327193093) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1185726931611852802) The announcement comes as Trump is facing an [impeachment inquiry](https://time.com/5685325/impeachment-inquiry-donald-trump-democrats/) and numerous other accusations of impropriety, including [two lawsuits](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-facing-emoluments-lawsuits-heres/story?id=65217053) accusing him of violating the Constitution’s [Emoluments Clause](https://time.com/4579979/emoluments-clause-constitution-donald-trump/), which forbids office holders from benefiting from foreign gifts. Trump [has denied](https://time.com/donald-trumps-suite-of-power/) using his time in office to benefit financially. Mulvaney said on [Fox News on Sunday](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mulvaney-insists-no-quid-pro-quo-with-ukraine-after-wh-comments-i-didnt-say-that) that the President had “wanted to put on the absolute best show” for the visiting dignitaries, and that both Trump and Mulvaney had been surprised by the reaction. “The President isn’t one for holding back his feelings and his emotions about something. He was honestly surprised about the level of pushback. At the end of the day, you know, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business,” Mulvaney said. Mulvaney said on Oct. 17 that he understood that the decision to host the G7 at the Trump National Doral Miami was facing criticism, but that the resort had been determined to have the best conditions for the summit. “Listen, I was skeptical. I was,” Mulvaney said. “I was aware of the political, sort of, criticism that we’d come under for doing it at Doral, which is why I was so surprised when the advance team called back and said that this is the perfect physical location to do this.” Others were not so convinced. Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) said to reporters on Friday, “I think that would be better if he would not use his hotel for this kind of stuff,” noting that it’s in the law to “avoid the appearance of impropriety.” Democratic Rep. [Jerrold Nadler](https://time.com/5594378/democrats-pointman-impeachment/), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, had announced that the committee would investigate the decision to host the meeting at the resort and whether Trump had used his time in the White House for financial gain. “The Doral decision reflects perhaps the first publicly known instance in which foreign governments would be required to pay President Trump’s private businesses in order to conduct business with the United States,” Nadler said in an [August statement](https://time.com/5703794/trump-g7-summit-doral/) after Trump first floated the idea. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/"},"headline":"President Trump Backs Down on Hosting G7 Meeting at His Florida Doral Resort","datePublished":"2019-10-20T14:34:45.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T21:04:09.000Z","description":"Even though he felt the resort would be a \"very good\" location","url":"https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/","keywords":["White House","Florida","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00069c4ae2d3606f/698a0492b21a9c9ef150289b/trump-national-doral.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara Law","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-law/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00069c4ae2d3606f/698a0492b21a9c9ef150289b/trump-national-doral.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump-Doral-Resort-G7","caption":"White House Announces That Trump Doral Resort Will Host G7 Summit In 2020","creditText":"Joe Raedle—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/","name":"President Trump Backs Down on Hosting G7 Meeting at His Florida Doral Resort"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Trump's Doral Resort Will Host the G7. 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