Trump to host Cabinet at Camp David as Iran talks continue

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures while speaking to reporters after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, May 15, 2026.
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President Donald Trump and his entire cabinet will meet at Camp David on Wednesday, a White House official told CNBC on Tuesday, hours after new U.S. attacks on Iran raised concerns about an expected peace deal.
Trump and his top officials will make a rare trip to the woods of Maryland to discuss both domestic and foreign issues, a White House official told The New York Post early Tuesday.
These include “the administration’s recent accomplishments, including economic and small business gains, highlights of the Fraud Elimination Task Force, and foreign policy updates,” the official told the Post. The White House confirmed the Post’s report to CNBC.
Although Trump frequently leaves the White House to spend time elsewhere, he often prefers to travel to his own properties and rarely visits Camp David during either presidency.
The presidential estate has historically been the scene of some significant US policy developments. 1978 Camp David AccordsAgreement signed by President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which formed the basis of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.
The US and Israel’s current war in the Middle East is expected to be the main topic of discussion at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting.
Signs of diplomatic progress are increasing in recent days Trump’s claim A post on Truth Social on Saturday stated that the US-Iran deal was “largely negotiated”, leading many observers to believe that an end to the nearly three-month-long war was near.
But no deal emerged over the weekend and Trump later make your language proficientHe wrote on Monday that a final deal with Iran “will either be big and meaningful, or there will be no deal.”
If negotiations fail, “Return to the War Front and shoot, but bigger and stronger than ever – And no one wants that!” he wrote another post Monday morning.
US forces then launched an attack on southern Iran in the early hours of Tuesday local time. U.S. Central Command said the actions were taken in self-defense to “protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.”
Even as news organizations report that some of the biggest sticking points are still being resolved, administration officials continue to insist that at least a short-term deal is on the horizon.
The Strait of Hormuz, a vital trade route whose virtual closure during the war caused a historic global energy supply shock, must be reopened “one way or another”, the Foreign Secretary has said Marco Rubio he said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Rubio also said further discussions on the agreement’s language “could take several days.”
Trump threw a wrench into the mix on Monday, saying in one of his social media posts that he “mandatory demands” that a group of Middle Eastern countries “immediately sign the Abraham Accords” to normalize relations with Israel as part of a deal with Iran. Reuters reported that Pakistan had already rejected the offer.
In the statement made by the White House, it was stated that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who announced last week that she would resign at the end of June due to her husband’s illness, will attend the Camp David meeting.




