Donald Trump will host the next G7 summit at one of his golf clubs in Florida

The next G7 summit, scheduled for 2020 in the United States, will be held in one of the golf clubs of President Donald Trump in Florida, the Trump National Doral Club announced Thursday that its chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney

The idea, which Trump himself openly defended at the last G7 in Biarritz, France, provoked wave of criticism and questions about potential conflicts of interest.

"This is not the only place possible, but is the bestMulvaney said at a press conference at the White House.The mogul bought the place in 2012 and presented it on the Internet as a "tropical oasis" offering over 600 rooms, two of which " Presidential Suites "and a large dance lounge named" Donald J. Trump ".

"We used the same criteria used by previous administrations" for the organization of summits, he said, adding that 12 options had been studied. "It's a great site," Trump said in Biarritz.

"It has a considerable area, hundreds of hectares, so we can organize any event on the spot," he added. "It's right next to the airport (…) and every delegation can have its own building," he said.

By minimizing ethical or legal issues, Trump had ensured that with the summit, he would not touch "anything" profits. "I do not mind making money," he added, recalling an argument he had made several times that the Presidency had instead reduced his fortune. Despite this, he simply assumed that his club's annual dues were doubled in March in Lago, where he had received several leaders.

Mulvaney said the operation would be done at cost.

G7 Conflict of Interest Disputes

The Speaker of the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, Jerry Nadler, said CNN that "Doral's decision may reflect the first publicly known case in which foreign governments would be forced to pay for President Trump's private affairs doing business with the United States, "said Nadler.

"It's a conflict of interest because you'll benefit from it – in fact, if you were a federal employee other than the president of the United States, it would be a crime participate in this activity, "said Walter Shaub, former director of the White House Government's Office of Ethics.

Climate change, outside the summit agenda

The choice of place is not the only controversy of this G7 summit. As Mulvaney progressed, "the issue of climate change will not be on the agenda" of the meeting between the leaders of the powers.

Trump, a climate skeptic, has pulled his country out of the Paris deal and has moved away from all the initiatives to fight global warming at major international events. Indeed, during the last summit in Biarritz, where the issue was central in the midst of the fire crisis in the Amazon and the growing mobilization of young people around the world, Trump Justified agenda items for skipping a meeting on climate change.