US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to reporters after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on 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. strikes in Iran raised concerns about an anticipated peace deal.
Trump and his top officials will make the rare trip to the woodsy Maryland retreat to discuss issues both foreign and domestic, a White House official told The New York Post earlier Tuesday.
They include the “recent successes of the administration including economy and small business wins, Task Force to Eliminate Fraud highlights, and foreign policy updates,” the official told the Post. The White House confirmed the Post’s report to CNBC.
While Trump frequently leaves the White House to spend time elsewhere, he usually opts to travel to his own properties, only rarely visiting Camp David in either of his presidential terms.
The presidential property has historically been the site of some significant U.S. policy developments — including the 1978 Camp David Accords, which were signed by President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and laid the groundwork for an Israel-Egypt peace treaty.
The U.S. and Israel’s current war in the Middle East is widely expected to be a main topic of discussion at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting.
Mounting signs of diplomatic progress in recent days, including Trump’s claim in a Truth Social post Saturday that a U.S.-Iran deal “has been largely negotiated,” led many observers to believe that an end to the nearly three-month war was imminent.
But no deal emerged over the weekend, and Trump later appeared to qualify his language, writing on Monday that an eventual agreement with Iran “will either be a great and meaningful one, or there will be no deal.”
If the negotiations fail, it will be “Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before — And nobody wants that!” he wrote in another post Monday morning.
U.S. forces later conducted strikes in southern Iran early 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.”
Administration officials continue to insist that at least a short-term deal is in view, even as news outlets report that some of the biggest sticking points are still being hashed out.
The Strait of Hormuz, the vital trade route whose de facto closure amid the war has caused a historic global energy supply shock, has to be reopened “one way or the other,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Rubio also said that further talks on the language of a deal could “take a few days.”
Trump threw a curveball into the mix when, in one of his social media posts Monday, he said he was “mandatorily requesting” that a slew of Middle Eastern nations “immediately sign the Abraham Accords” to normalize relations with Israel as part of a deal with Iran. Pakistan already rejected the proposal, Reuters reported.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who announced last week she would resign in late June due to her husband’s illness, will attend the Camp David meeting, the White House said.
