The president defends a plan to hold a G-7 meeting at his private golf club.
President Trump on Monday defended the idea of holding the 2020 meeting of the G-7 at his Trump National Doral Miami Golf Resort, denying that this was a scheme to line his own pockets and claiming, as he has before, that being president is costing him billions of dollars.
“Doral happens to be within Miami. It’s a city. It’s a wonderful place. It’s a very, very successful area of Florida. It’s, very importantly, only five minutes from the airport. The airport’s right next door. It’s a big international airport, one of the biggest in the world. Everybody that’s coming, all of these people with all of their big entourages come.
“And we have many hundreds of acres, so that in terms of parking, in terms of all of the things that you need, the ballrooms are the biggest in Florida and the best. It’s brand new and my people wanted it. From my standpoint, I’m not going to make any money. In my opinion, I’m not going to make any money. I don’t want to make money. I don’t care about making money.
Trump has written down his overall net worth, but most of the $1.4 billion in losses stem from correcting his own past reporting of his assets.
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