Trump suggests he might host next year's G-7 summit at a Trump golf resort in Florida

The reporters covering the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France, were briefly ushered into the working session on climate change, oceans, and biodiversity, and one chair was conspicuous empty.

At a bilateral meeting afterward with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had attended the climate session, a reporter asked Trump why he hadn't been there. "We're having it in a little while," he replied.

Trump "didn't appear to hear when a reporter told him it just happened," according to the White House pool report. The pool reporters also noted that while meeting with Merkel, Trump said when he hosts the 2020 G-7 summit, he might hold it at his own private golf resort, Doral, in southern Florida.

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"They love the location of the hotel," Trump said. "We haven't found anything that's even close to competing with it." Trump had apparently raised the idea of hosting world leaders at Doral before, and The Washington Post reported in June about all the ways Trump himself would profit — and does profit richly, directly and indirectly — by hosting such events at his properties, and even just visiting his resorts, as he has more than 125 times while in office.