Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., on Thursday criticized President Donald Trump for “whimsically” deciding to meet with leaders of the Taliban at Camp David, although it was cancelled.
Trump tweeted last Saturday that he had cancelled a planned meeting with the President of Afghanistan and major Taliban leaders at Camp David for peace negotiations after a deadly attack in Kabul was attributed to the group.
“I will support the idea of continuing to negotiate with the Taliban, but bringing them to Camp David without having an agreement in place that is a durable cease-fire and without having a clear commitment to have the Afghan government, the elected government and President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan in that meeting is just a reminder of how at times this administration’s decisions on really important, symbolic issues like that happen at the last second whimsically,” Coons said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” on Thursday.
“We have a Monty Hall president who thinks he can make a deal with just about anybody and doesn’t listen to his diplomats and his generals. Camp David is a place where major peace agreements have been concluded, but after years of work and with real clarity in advance about exactly what is going to happen at that conversation, that’s not what was going on here. This was a fairly last-second decision that came apart just as quickly.”
© 2026 Newsmax. All rights reserved.