Earlier this week, Donald Trump announced that Trump National Doral, the Miami resort where business is in sharp decline, is a strong contender to host next year’s G7 summit. “It’s got tremendous acreage, many hundreds of acres, so we can handle whatever happens,” Trump said from Biarritz, France, pitching the property to reporters. “People are really liking it and plus it has buildings that have 50 to 70 units. And so each delegation can have its own building. We haven’t found anything that could even come close to competing with it,” he claimed at the beginning of a bilateral meeting with Angela Merkel, who was probably internally screaming whatever is German for “I survived the Stasi for this?!”

In addition to the implications of forcing foreign governments to spend untold amounts of money at his personal resort and promoting the property on a world stage—things that some people view as in violation of the Constitution—concerns quickly turned to the fact that Doral, reportedly has had a run-in with bedbugs. By Monday evening, the hashtag #TrumpBedBugs was trending on Twitter, where naturally, an incensed U.S. president couldn’t help but weigh in Tuesday:

Shockingly, for a guy who has literally told 12,019 “false or misleading claims” between January 20, 2017, and August 5, 2019, this statement was reportedly not true. In fact, the Trump Organization was sued in July 2016 by insurance executive Eric Linder “after his back, face, and arms were devoured by voracious bedbugs” during a stay in March of that same year, according to the Miami Herald. (Linder’s attorneys included stomach-turning photos of his back and neck covered in red splotches.) While Doral made the bizarre claim that the guest “conducted himself so carelessly and negligently that his conduct was the sole proximate cause or contributing cause”—did he raid the minibar and have unprotected sex with a bedbug?—the Trump Organization agreed to a tentative settlement in January 2017.

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