Trump Selects His Own Doral Resort To Host The 2026 G20, Resolving Long-Standing Concern That The Year's Largest Gathering Of World Leaders Would Enrich Someone Other Than The President

WASHINGTON. President Donald J. Trump announced from the Oval Office on Friday that the 2026 Group of 20 summit, the year's premier gathering of the leaders of the world's largest economies, will be held at Trump National Doral Miami, a golf resort owned by President Donald J. Trump.

The selection concluded a site-evaluation process in which the President weighed the relative merits of Trump National Doral Miami against the possibility of holding the summit somewhere he does not own. Officials said the event, scheduled for December 14 and 15, had been awarded to the property on the strength of its convenient proximity to the airport, its generous acreage, and the President's deep personal familiarity with the grounds.

"It's the best," the President said of the resort he has owned since 2012, citing its proximity to the Miami airport. He did not address whether any competing venues had been considered.

The arrangement marks the President's second attempt to route a global summit through his own hospitality business. In 2019 he awarded the 2020 G7 to the same resort before abandoning the plan within days amid bipartisan objections and the constitutional clause prohibiting the President from accepting payments from foreign governments. Administration officials emphasized that the difference this time is that the President intends to go through with it.

To address concerns, the White House clarified that Trump National Doral would host the visiting delegations, their staffs, and their security details "at cost," an assurance that the property owned by the President would charge the federal government and the assembled foreign governments only what it costs the property owned by the President to host them. The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed for records related to the decision, a step the administration noted would not change it.

At press time, an aide was seen carrying a freshly printed "G20 Miami 2026" sign into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, resolving any lingering doubt about which Miami property had been under consideration.