Seven years ago, during a marginally more innocent time, the Trump administration announced plans to hold the 2020 G7 summit at Donald Trump's resort in Doral, Florida. The backlash was fierce, and somehow the then'Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney's dismissive attitude''Get over it''failed to quell concerns, including among Republicans. Two days later, Trump gave up and moved the event to Camp David. (In the end, it was canceled because of COVID.) Things are different in Trump's second term. Later this year, the United States will host the G20 summit'an offshoot of the G7 that includes approximately 20 leaders of the world's largest economies'and the president has selected Trump National Doral as the location. A few days ago, The Washington Post reported that Trump even intends to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin, a global pariah, to the meeting. But the Doral G20 has gotten nowhere near the same amount of attention, and much less backlash. The way the two...
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