Trump golf course to host next G7 summit

One of President Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Florida will host the G7 summit next June, the White House has announced.

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters that President Trump would not profit from the event.

Mr Mulvaney said “Donald Trump’s brand is probably strong enough as it is”, so he did not need a branding boost.

Mr Trump’s property, the National Doral Miami, is located around 8 miles (13 km) from Miami’s airport.

Mr Mulvaney told reporters on Thursday that an advance team of scouts had started with about a list of possible locations for the summit in about a dozen states.

The advance team, he said, went to visit the event spaces in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Tennessee and Utah.

“And it became apparent at the end of that process that Doral was by far and away, far and away, the best physical facility for this meeting.

“In fact I was talking to one of the advance teams when they came back and I said, ‘what was it like?’ And they said, ‘You’re not going to believe this but it’s almost like they built this facility to host type of event.'”