The next time the Group of 20 leaders meet in the U.S., it may be at a property owned by President Donald Trump.
On Friday, Trump revealed that he will hold the 2026 G20 meeting in Miami at his Doral, Florida, golf course.
Trump said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will organize the agenda for the meeting, which he said will focus on “unleashing economic prosperity by limiting, eliminating the burdens of regulations, unlocking affordable energy, and pioneering new technologies.”
The White House said on Friday that Trump’s Doral property would host the meeting “at cost, and will receive no profit from either the State Department or a foreign government.”
The meeting has been scheduled for December 14 and 15, 2026.
This isn’t the first time Trump has voiced his desire to host a major international summit at one of his properties. In 2020, during his first term, Trump wanted to host the G7 summit at his Doral resort but backed off the idea after it was met with significant backlash and ethical complaints.
“Mr. Trump is unashamed of his corruption,” Representative Lois Frankel, a Florida Democrat, said at the time. “He is abusing the office of the presidency and violating law by directing millions of dollars of American and foreign money to his family enterprises by holding an important meeting of world leaders at his Doral resort.”
Charles Fried, a Harvard law professor who served as the solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan, told The New York Times at the time that Trump’s plan “stinks” and was “completely blatant.”
Trump eventually relented but not before painting everyone who criticized him as “crazy.”
“I thought I was doing something very good for our country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G7 leaders,” Trump wrote on Twitter at the time. “But, as usual, the hostile media & Democrat partners went CRAZY!”
He continued, saying that “based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility,” the U.S. would “no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G7 in 2020.”
The summit was eventually rescheduled as a virtual meeting to account for the Covid-19 pandemic.
Before Trump tried to hold the G7 summit at his resort, the U.S. had previously hosted it in Puerto Rico, Denver, Sea Island, Georgia and at Camp David since they began in 1965.
The G20 summit is an economic forum that includes 19 countries and two multi-national blocs — the European Union and the African Union — and its membership represents approximately 85 percent of the global gross domestic product and 75 percent of global trade, according to its website.
