Tag: G-7 summit

Trump’s Doral resort was a last-minute addition in search for G-7 site, newly released email shows

Washington Post logoSecret Service agents had identified four U.S. sites as finalists for next year’s Group of Seven summit — but then they were told to add a new finalist: President Trump’s Doral resort, according to an internal Secret Service email released late Friday.

“Our original itinerary included Hawaii, Utah, California and North Carolina,” a Secret Service official wrote, describing a trip that a team of Secret Service personnel took in July to examine the finalists. “By departure, they had already cut two (California and North Carolina) and added Miami on the back end.”

“Miami” meant President Trump’s resort near the Miami airport, which hadn’t been among the original 10 sites that the Secret Service team had vetted. Although vetting of possible sites had begun in late May, the official wrote on July 12 that “yesterday was the first time we put eyes on this [Doral] property.”

View the complete November 15 article by David A. Fahrenthold and Josh Dawsey on The Washington Post website here.

Trump finds himself on his heels and fumbling at G-7

Washington Post logoPresident Trump is used to going to gatherings of world leaders and throwing his weight around — even if to no other end than making his counterparts squirm and cater to him.

But on Sunday, he found himself on his heels and fumbling throughout much of the first day of the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France.

While his trade war with China isn’t the subject of the meeting, it’s clearly one of the major subplots. With the implications for the global economy clear and increasingly ominous, the summit is not exactly the friendliest venue for Trump.

View the complete August 25 article by Aaron Blake on The Washington Post website here.

Trump, self-described ‘Chosen One,’ heads to G-7 looking for ‘respect’

President heads to France summit after an odd, chaotic week — even by his standards

Look out, Biarritz, here comes “The Chosen One.”

The chic resort town on France’s picturesque Basque coastline will host a G-7 summit this weekend amid worries about a global recession and fraying alliances in Europe and Asia. President Donald Trump — who used that moniker Wednesday to describe himself as a savior in a decades-old trade dispute with China despite so far failing to resolve a single issue — will be center stage after one of the most erratic and strange weeks of his wild presidency.

Early in the two-day summit, the president is expected to make a pitch that other governments mirror his economic stewardship with tax cuts and moves like cutting regulations. That will come during a special session on the state of the global economy that his administration requested be added to the agenda amid worldwide recession worries — even though Trump has said he sees no such major economic slowdown on his own turf.

View the complete August 23 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.