President Trump on Monday continued to rail about having to remove his Doral golf resort as host of the G-7 gathering of world leaders, saying he “would have done it for free.”

“I own a property in Florida. I would have given it for nothing,” the president said during a meeting of his cabinet in the White House. But “the Democrats went crazy, even though I would have done it for free.”

He said that if his South Florida golf resort hosted next June’s summit, “Everyone in the G-7 would have had their own building.”

“It would have been the best G-7 ever,” he said.

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced last Thursday that the administration had selected Doral as the site of the G-7, prompting criticism that Trump would profit personally from the presidency.

Mulvaney said Trump planned to host the gathering at cost, but Democrats and some Republicans said Trump would still benefit from the exposure his resort would have received.

Trump dismissed that criticism.

“I don’t need promotion. I don’t need promotion,” he said, and then questioned former President Barack Obama’s business dealings while he was in the White House.

“Obama made a deal for a book. Did he run a business?” Trump asked. “He has a deal with Netflix. When did they start talking about that?”