Donald Trump may be the future president, but that doesn’t mean he’s above choosing the place settings and tablecloth fabrics for this week’s inaugural festivities.

“He’s into every detail of everything,” Presidential Inaugural Committee Chair Tom Barrack told The Post. “I beg him all the time to go back to running the free world and let me focus on setting the tables.”

The events begin Tuesday with the Chairman’s Dinner, which includes diplomats, dignitaries, donors and backers.

Trump tapped powerhouse party planner Stephanie Winston Wolkoff to oversee the event, as well as a candlelight dinner on Thursday and the three inaugural balls Friday.

A former Vogue events director, Winston Wolkoff had planned the Met Gala for years. She is also a friend of Melania Trump’s.

“She raised the level of elegance and décor,” Barrack said of Winston Wolkoff. “Washington hasn’t been used to this.”

But it won’t all be gold and glitz. Barrack says the decor is more “traditional Americana.”

“It will have the old-time flair of an era gone by,” he said.

Winston Wolkoff will incorporate the American rose and the peony — the official flower of Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s home state, Indiana.

Unlike years past, when guests paid for drinks, there will be drink tickets, Barrack said.

The Vice President’s Dinner and the Cabinet Dinner are set for Wednesday, each with a guest list of 500. Thursday is the concert on the National Mall with the candlelight dinner at Union Station for 1,500 guests that night. It will be attended by Trump and Pence, according to Barrack.

On Friday, Inauguration Day, the future president and first lady will attend services at St. John’s Episcopal Church before proceeding to the White House for coffee with President and Michelle Obama.

From there, they will all go to the Capitol, Barrack said.

After the swearing-in and parade — and the Obamas flying off to Andrews Air Force Base — Trump returns to the Capitol for a congressional lunch.

That evening, there are three official inaugural galas — the Liberty and Freedom balls at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and the Salute to

Our Armed Services ball, which Barrack said will include first responders. The Freedom ball is expected to have 25,000 attendees, and the Liberty ball 8,000.

On Saturday, Trump will attend a prayer breakfast at the Washington National Cathedral as the Women’s March on Washington starts.

Then, Barrack said, “he’s back to work.”