Now the world faces the question of what comes next.
Whenever the president is interrupted at an event with a whisper or note from an aide, something significant and possibly historic is afoot.
Perhaps the most memorable example in recent times is when White House chief of staff Andy Card approached President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, while he was reading to students at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, to inform him that the nation was under attack.
President Donald Trump received far better news when Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified him that a peace deal between Israel and Hamas was close, just a day after the war in Gaza following the brutal terrorist attack against the Jewish state hit the two-year mark.
Trump is a master of big media moments. The event Rubio interrupted was meant to highlight the prevalence and severity of antifa violence across the country. Many reporters were likely hearing about this criminal behavior for the first time.
Rubio came in to tell the president so that he could announce the agreement, the first phase of what is hoped to be a larger peace deal, himself on Truth Social. If every Israeli hostage is returned and the ceasefire holds, the image of Rubio whispering to Trump and passing him a note will go down in history alongside the three-way handshake between President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
