In yet another unforced error instigated by the Trump administration, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced that the next G-7 summit will be held at President Trump’s private golf club in Doral, Florida.
Trump is a billionaire, and it’s not as though holding a single summit will enrich him in any meaningful way. But it will slightly affect his bottom line, and taxpayers shouldn’t have to wonder about such things. The media and the Left will be enraged, and they have every right to be so. Probably the Right should be angry, too.
At a time when Trump needs Republican fealty the most, he has created a wholly unnecessary stunt that his disgruntled party will now be forced to defend. If Trump had offered to hold it at his property and foot the bill himself, Republicans could laud the move as fiscally conservative. But to use taxpayer funding to force world leaders onto his property is nothing but a vanity project, and one that reads as corruption at first glance.
So Trump’s going to get another bad news cycle, and he’s going to deserve it. His MAGAlytes, who call John McCain a traitor, will laud Trump’s trollery while the Democratic Party prepares its largest voter turnout in history. The rest of us are left rolling our eyes, wondering what we did in past lives to deserve a political class so petulant.
