President Donald Trump listens as Miami Mayor Francis Suarez speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Washington, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A military aide places a G20 sign in the Oval Office as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent walks past as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump says US will host next year鈥檚 G20 summit at his Florida golf club but he won’t make money
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will host next year鈥檚 Group of 20 summit at his golf club in Doral, Florida, arguing it was 鈥渢he best location鈥 for the high-stakes international gathering but insisting his family’s business “will not make any money on it.鈥
President Donald Trump listens as Miami Mayor Francis Suarez speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Washington, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
By Seung Min Kim And Will Weissert The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will host next year鈥檚 Group of 20 summit at his golf club in Doral, Florida, arguing it was 鈥渢he best location鈥 for the high-stakes international gathering but insisting his family’s business “will not make any money on it.鈥
In his first term, Trump tried to host a separate global summit at the club, but backed down after criticism from his own party about the propriety of doing so. Now, though, Trump rarely travels domestically without golfing at or staying in properties bearing his name and has faced very little political blowback.
Trump’s sons have taken over running the while their father is in the White House. But the president has nonetheless prided himself in blurring the line between domestic and global policy and generating profits for the Trump brand.
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He’s actively promoted his $TRUMP and even hosted the top 220 investors in it for a in May at his golf property in Virginia. The president made his first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, after his sons . Trump also went to Scotland to course there.
The G20 is made up of some of the world鈥檚 major economies, the European Union and the African Union. Hosting the G20 at Doral would be an especially striking example of using the presidency to enrich his family, but Trump wasted little time defending it.
鈥淚 think everybody wants it there,鈥 he said when asked if the global summit would be at his golf club and spa. Trump noted that the conference would be occurring in December 2026, a time of year when hotels in South Florida are often more full, and said that Doral had the space and was ideally suited because of its close proximity to the city鈥檚 airport.
The United States hasn’t hosted a G20 since it was held in Pittsburgh in 2009. The president suggested that organizers had requested the summit be at his property, but didn鈥檛 elaborate. He said each delegation from different countries 鈥渨ill have its own building.鈥
鈥淚t鈥檚 the best location, it鈥檚 beautiful, beautiful everything,鈥 Trump said, while adding, 鈥淲e will not make any money on it.鈥
鈥淲e鈥檙e doing a deal where it鈥檚 not going to be money, there鈥檚 no money in it. I just want it to go well,鈥 Trump said. 鈥淚 think it’ll be really a beautiful thing.鈥
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He also called Doral 鈥渧ery, very successful, one of the most successful properties in the country.鈥
Miami Mayor Frances Suarez, who attended Friday’s G20 site announcement in the Oval Office, said it 鈥減uts us on the global map” but also acknowledged that, for the area, 鈥淚t’s a tremendous boom for your economy.鈥
鈥淎s the president knows,” Suarez added. “He has multiple hospitality assets.鈥
Trump also said Friday that he would not be attending this year’s G20 in South Africa, but planned to send Vice President JD Vance in his place.
