President Donald Trump introduced Tuesday afternoon he’ll cancel plans to carry a gathering of his Cupboard on the Camp David presidential retreat and maintain it within the White Home as a substitute as a result of inclement climate forecast for Wednesday.
“Based mostly on the doable unhealthy climate circumstances tomorrow, we shall be having our Cupboard Assembly within the White Home, and shall be suspending the Cupboard journey to Camp David,” Trump posted on his social media platform.
The Nationwide Climate Service forecasts thunderstorms within the area on Wednesday.
In keeping with a White Home official, all Cupboard members had been anticipated to attend, and the assembly would “spotlight current successes of the administration together with economic system and small enterprise wins, Activity Power to Get rid of Fraud highlights, and overseas coverage updates.”
President Donald Trump speaks at Rockland Group Faculty, Could 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y.
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The plans to journey to the presidential retreat was first reported by the New York Submit.
The journey would have been Trump’s first return to Camp David in nearly a 12 months.
Trump beforehand visited the retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park in Frederick County, Maryland, final June in what the White Home described on the time as “an everyday off campus retreat of principals attended by the President and Vice President.”
The choice to carry an official Cupboard assembly at Camp David marked a departure from typical follow, although it isn’t unprecedented for Trump, who held a Cupboard assembly there in September 2017 throughout his first time period, as properly, which was closed to the press.
