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Consumer Confidential: Like Trump, the founding fathers were businessmen. That's where the similarities end

It would be nice to think that all Americans - Republican and Democrat, conservative and progressive - were equally gobsmacked when President Trump used an international economic summit Monday as an infomercial for his hotels.

Trump plugged his golf resorts in Britain and Ireland while meeting with the new British prime minister, Boris Johnson. Then at a post-summit news conference, he raised the idea of holding next year's G-7 event, which the United States is hosting, at his Doral resort near Miami.

"It's got tremendous acreage, many hundreds of acres, so we can handle whatever happens," Trump said. "It's really - people are really

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