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White House Reveals G7 Site Alternatives
Making Summits Profitable Again
October 17, 2019. White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced today that the 46th G7 Summit would be held at the Trump National Doral facility in Miami, Florida.
“ Now, let’s talk about the site selection process because I know you folks will ask some questions about that,” Mulvaney announced to a press corps that was for once stunned into silence.
How do we go about doing this? First of all, we use a lot of the same criteria that have been used by past administrations.… We started with a list of about a dozen, just on paper. And we sent an advance team out to actually visit 10 locations in several states. We visited California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. Now, we got that list down to just under 10, and the advance team went out to visit those. And from there, we got down to four finalists that our senior team went out to look at. They looked at — I think it was one in Hawaii, two in Utah, and then the Mar-a-Lago facility in Florida.
Mulvaney did not name the unsuccessful sites other than the swank, luxurious, super fancy Mar-a-Lago (which features special discounts for AAA members and international despots), but a disgruntled White House staffer who wished to be known only as “JK” provided the press with names of…
