President Donald Trump is not, historically, a Camp David guy.
The wood-wrapped rooms of the Laurel Lodge are not his happy place. His predecessors have chosen the retreat as an escape from cameras and formality; Trump rarely objects to having his picture taken or an extra chandelier or two.
There have been no reports of Trump ordering up new varnish on the rustic woodwork, no requests for his gold guy to apply a layer of gilt on the hand-carved wooden signs.
Instead, he’s mostly avoided going at all.
But there he was Friday, under the watchful gaze of his predecessors, convening his Cabinet amid the pines.
