Emoluments violations
The Constitution's Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses prohibit federal officeholders from receiving benefits from foreign governments and prohibit the President from receiving benefits from federal or state governments beyond the official salary. Concrete forms include foreign-government bookings at officeholder-owned businesses, foreign-state payments routed to entities the officeholder owns, and federal or state government spending at the officeholder's commercial properties. The clauses are structural and old; the publication tracks documented payments, regardless of whether litigation follows.
Documented entries (1)
2025
Trump announced 2026 G20 summit at his Doral resort, directing foreign-government spending to his own property
President Trump announced on September 5, 2025, that the United States would host the 2026 G20 summit at his Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Florida. The White House claimed the venue would host the event "at-cost" with no profit to Trump, but even at-cost hosting generates substantial indirect value — global media exposure, advance security expenditures, and ancillary bookings — for a property Trump personally owns. Trump abandoned an identical proposal to host the G7 at Doral in 2019 following bipartisan congressional criticism; he is now proceeding without seeking congressional consent as required by the Foreign Emoluments Clause.