President Donald Trump's use of his public office to enrich himself has reached a new low. At a public appearance at the summit of the Group of Seven major industrial nations last week, he proposed that the next meeting be held in Doral, Florida, at the golf resort that his business owns. Not long afterward, the official White House account tweeted, “President @realDonaldTrump shares the location of the next @G7 summit, hosted by the United States!”
Hosting the summit at Doral would compel the federal government to spend money at the resort and could potentially require foreign governments to do the same. The result would be an enormous windfall for the president and his business, not to mention publicity and promotion of the property — an advertising campaign money could not buy.
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