Overview

• During a White House roundtable on antifa with conservative influencers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed President Trump a folded note in the Blue Room.
• A photographed close-up showed the handwritten message: "You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first."
• Roughly two hours later, Trump posted that Israel and Hamas had signed off on the first phase of a peace plan, saying all hostages would be released "very soon" and Israeli troops would pull back to an agreed line.
• The urgency coincided with the third day of U.S.-led negotiations at an Egyptian resort involving adviser Steve Witkoff and mediators from Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.
• The photographed note prompted questions about staff-prepared presidential posts, suggesting a prewritten message awaited Trump’s approval to make the announcement first.