Trump visits Camp David for the first time

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published 17 June 2017

President Trump is visiting Camp David for the first time this weekend with first lady Melania and son Barron, age 11, in a trip that coincides with Father's Day on Sunday. Former President Obama had visited four times by this point in his presidency; former President George W. Bush had made 11 trips to the presidential retreat.

This is also Trump's first weekend overnight trip away from the White House that does not take him to a Trump-branded property like Mar-a-Lago. Earlier this year, Trump suggested he was not inclined to visit the rural Maryland getaway. "Camp David is very rustic. It's nice, you'd like it," he said. "You know how long you'd like it? For about 30 minutes."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.