US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 25, 2026. President Trump is on his way back to Washington where he will be attending the White House Correspondents’ dinner for the first time while in office —Kent NISHIMURA—AFPPresident Donald Trump abruptly canceled plans for U.S. envoys to travel to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran on Saturday, throwing the latest round of negotiations aimed at ending the war in doubt. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, were due to travel to Islamabad for talks with Iranian leaders later Saturday, but Trump called them off at the last minute, blaming “infighting” among Iran’s leadership. “Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership.’ Nobody knows who is in charge, including them.”“Also, we have all the cards,” he wrote.Read more: Tehran Says ‘No Decision Yet’ on Joining Peace Talks as Iranian President Flags Distrust of WashingtonHe reiterated that point when speaking to reporters in West Palm Beach on Saturday before boarding Air Force One.“We have all the cards. We’re not going to spend 15 hours in airplanes all the time, going back and forth, to be given a document that was not good enough,” he said, adding that Iran could just “call” the U.S.The news comes a day after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox…
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