Thursday, October 8, 2026
Trump wants a second Camp David. At his golf club.
Trump said Wednesday he wants a presidential retreat at his golf club in West Palm Beach, two minutes from the airport. The club would pay to build it as a “gift” and give future presidents free membership. Camp David is a guarded Navy camp of cabins in the Maryland woods. He says the Secret Service suggested it.
The president has a weekend place in the woods called Camp David. Now he says presidents should also get to stay at his golf club in Florida, two minutes from the airport, and his club will pay for it. Camp David is cabins hidden in a park, like a secret fort you can’t see from the road. The grown-ups are sorting out whether that’s fair.
Why it worksA seven-year-old takes one vivid feature for the whole event, so the script gives them the fort in the woods and the golf club two minutes from the airport, and leaves the lawyer’s letter out. Who pays is a grown-up’s question at seven. Expect “can I go to Camp David?” No. It isn’t even on the park map.
- “Does the president get a holiday house?”
- Yes. Camp David is his weekend place in the woods. Now he wants one at his golf club in Florida too.
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Camp David is a hidden Navy camp of cabins in a Maryland park. Trump says presidents should also get weekends at his golf club in Florida, and his club will build it as a gift. Like a kid offering to host every sleepover at his house: generous, and the house is still his.
Why it worksThis age is working out fairness, so the script hands them the chain: a camp the Navy runs, a club the president owns, a letter offering it free, a gift that stays his. The sleepover host is a mechanism they own. Expect “is that allowed?” Nobody in the articles says it isn’t. A county board got the letter.
- “Who pays for the new Camp David?”
- His club, Trump says, as a gift. Nothing from the government.
- “What is Camp David?”
- The president’s country retreat: cabins in a Maryland park, run by the Navy.
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Is it a gift if the giver keeps the house? Trump’s club offered to build a presidential retreat at “no cost to the federal government” and give future presidents free membership. He says “this wouldn’t be for me.” Second: Camp David is a hidden Navy camp. Is a golf club as safe?
Why it worksA teenager can hold two true things at once: the club pays, and the club is his. The script puts his words next to the lawyer’s letter and asks which to weigh. The second question is open: the BBC asked the Secret Service and has no answer yet. Expect “so is this corruption?” I don’t know. The articles don’t say.
- “What does Trump get out of it?”
- Nothing, he says: “for all future presidents.” They’d stay at a club he owns.
- “Would Camp David close?”
- The articles don’t say so. Trump called the club a second retreat.
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Based on the headline: Trump wants a second Camp David. At his golf club.