President Donald Trump canceled a trip with his Cabinet to Camp David set for Wednesday, citing forecasts of bad weather as the reason he won’t make what would have been a rare visit to the rural presidential retreat.
Instead, Trump said, he will convene his Cabinet at the White House, a meeting that comes as he seeks to negotiate an end to the war with Iran and boost his flagging approval ratings ahead of the fall midterms.
The White House had announced plans Tuesday morning for the meeting at Camp David, which would have been only the second time Trump visited since returning to office. But Trump wrote on social media in the evening that he would be “postponing the Cabinet trip to Camp David” because of possible bad weather and would meet at the White House. Showers and storms are in the forecast for Wednesday.
The compound in Thurmont, Maryland — the site of historic diplomatic summits and huddles by past administrations ahead of major military action — has not been a frequent destination for Trump compared with other presidents of recent decades.
The president convened his national security team at Camp David in June 2025, two weeks before the United States launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.
A White House official told The Washington Post that foreign and domestic issues will be discussed during Wednesday’s meeting. In a statement, the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly, said the economy would be talked about during the meeting as one of the “recent successes of the administration,” along with “small business wins.”
Recent public polls have shown Trump’s approval hitting a second-term low as voters have soured on his handling of the economy — an issue that had been a strength for him during his 2024 campaign — and say they disagree with his decision to go to war with Iran.
Cabinet officials are also set to talk about the administration’s anti-fraud task force, headed by Vice President JD Vance, which has continued to tout recent initiatives to identify fraud in federal programs.
If the meeting is closed-door — not the three-hour televised affairs that were his past Cabinet meetings — talk about the war in Iran, which will soon cross the three-month mark, could be the most consequential. The White House official said Trump would discuss “foreign policy updates” with the other officials.
Despite claims over the weekend from Trump and other administration officials that the U.S. and Iran were on the verge of an agreement to end the war, there were few signs in recent days that a deal was imminent. On Monday, military officials confirmed that the U.S. had launched “self-defense” strikes on Iran, which Iran condemned and called a violation of the ceasefire.
A recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that the war with Iran remains deeply unpopular with Americans. The war received approval ratings as low as those found during peak periods of military deaths during the Vietnam and Iraq wars, the poll found.
Independent voters’ disapproval of the Iran war coincides with Trump’s worsening popularity overall.
Other recent presidents used Camp David far more than Trump has. Former president George W. Bush visited the retreat nearly 150 times during his eight years in office, according to data compiled at the time by White House journalist Mark Knoller.
Camp David was where Bush met with his national security team in mid-September 2001, shortly before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. In the years that followed, he held additional meetings at Camp David to discuss the war there and in Iraq.
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