Scoop: Trump held lengthy Camp David strategy session with top team on Iran and Gaza

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

11 hours ago


President Trump and his entire top foreign policy team huddled in Camp David for hours on Sunday to discuss U.S. strategy on the Iran nuclear crisis and the war in Gaza, two U.S. officials and another source with knowledge tell Axios.

Why it matters: Trump's missions to reach a nuclear deal that averts war with Iran and a hostage and ceasefire deal that could end the war in Gaza have both faced recent setbacks.

A senior U.S. official told Axios the president sees both crisis as intertwined and part of a broader regional reality he is trying to shape.

Behind the scenes: U.S. officials said the "retreat" in Camp David included several policy sessions.

The meeting on Iran and Gaza was attended by Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, chief of staff Susie Wiles, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA director John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and other senior officials.

Trump said Monday that "generals and admirals" also attended the meetings but declined to say what was discussed.

"The retreat allowed all the senior people in the administration to sit together for a long time and discuss these issues," a U.S. official said. The White House didn't respond to a request for a comment.

Split screen: Iranian officials have been finalizing their response to the U.S. nuclear deal proposal, and are expected to deliver a formal rejection in the next 24 hours.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/trump-camp-david-iran-gaza-meeting

[Lovie777]

1. And Los Angeles too...................

[Ray Bruns]

2. Bullshit. His team might have met to discuss strategy but stinky was watching Fux Noise as always.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump's goal is to make money and accrue more power.

That is the only thing he can understand in these talks.

[LisaM]

10. That's the first thing that occurred to me, too.

I can't see Trump huddled around for hours having a serious discussion about anything. He has the attention span of a gnat, unless it has to do with personal grievance or petty revenge.

[drmeow]

12. I was about to post something

very similar:

"the president sees both crisis as intertwined and part of a broader regional reality he is trying to shape"

The President doesn't know jack $hit about the realities of either crisis and it is part of a broader regional reality his handlers want to impose!

[tanyev]

4. Did the Trump "strategy session" consist of Donny talking at length about how good

his ratings are and how beautiful and very, very major his birthday parade is going to be? Then when other people finally spoke, did Donny spend all his time scribbling new nickname ideas for Gov. Newsome and the California protestors?

[lapfog_1]

5. The collective IQ of this group

Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, chief of staff Susie Wiles, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA director John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard

is about the same as the average field mouse.

[creon]

6. really?

Hard to imagine those people actually trying to figure qnything out.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. "Top" is very much a relative term here. nt

[Turbineguy]

8. "top team"......

Trump is in his element. They're about to start shooting Americans.

[johnnyfins]

9. I find it difficult to believe that the use of

the military, domestically, was not discussed.

[ananda]

11. Is he still chasing that peace prize Obama and Carter got?

So far he's batting zero for three...