The decision was immediately met with widespread backlash. The G7, an organization representing the world’s most developed economies, meets annually.
Trump later reluctantly changed the location to Camp David, though he maintained that the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution that prohibits Presidents from personally profiting from their office is “phony.”
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