Far and away
“Bring the leaders of the free world to Doral, he said. What could go wrong, he said,” tweeted songwriter Holly Figueroa O’Reilly, founder of Blue Wave Crowdsource, which supports Democratic candidates.
Twitter users began using the hashtag Thursday after White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced that the G7 summit would take place at Trump’s Doral resort because it was “far and away the best physical facility for this meeting.”
Except for the bedbugs. And the heat. And the humidity. And the overall who wants to be stuck at a crap Trump resort near Miami airport. And the fact that there are many better physical facilities. Other than that, it’s definitely the best.
Miami is going to be a security nightmare. There is a reason they are usually hosted in relatively small towns that can essentially be stopped for the purpose: Biarritz, La Malbaie, Taormina, Kashiko, Schloss Elmau. The one in Brussels was not planned for there, and it was extremely difficult. Before that, Enniskillen, Camp David, Deauville,etc., etc. The last big city was St.Petersburg, where they were not troubled by the possibility of protestors. Since Genoa in 2001, the received wisdom is a certain sort of footprint, somewhat isolated, controlled access, relatively small population, areas without much violent crime, and citizens who will accept the disruption to their lives of the summit plus the protestors
Miami….much bigger than Genoa, heavily-armed population, and doesn’t meet a single one of those criteria
@Naif – yeah I remember there was a G8 in Gleneagles, which is an isolated luxury hotel. The protesters had to come to Edinburgh, about 35 miles away, and generally held up the traffic. We corporates were told to dress down so as to not attract their attention. It was quite a scary and horrible time as the city was crawling with police from the rest of the UK. There’s usually not much police presence in Edinburgh, and they are low-key so masses of police vans everywhere and police with non-local accents felt like an occupation.
Sounds like every mining town during the miners’ strike, with the exception that many of those ‘police’ officers had a suspiciously military bearing.
Gleneagles was particularly terrible and tense, because of credible threats that were borne out with the London bombings.