--- ---  # Watch Live: President Trump Meets Palestinian Leader Abbas at the White House by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra May 3, 2017 3:20 PM UTC  Mahmoud Abbas speaks to the media at the Chancellery on April 19, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. Mahmoud Abbas speaks to the media at the Chancellery on April 19, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.Sean Gallup—Getty Images by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra May 3, 2017 3:20 PM UTC [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4758355/trump-100-days-republican-congress-relationship/) is meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Wednesday, after Trump recently reiterated that he hoped to see peace in the region. “I want to see peace with Israel and the Palestinians,” Trump said[ in an interview with Reuters last week.](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-interview-highlights-idUSKBN17U0D4) “There is no reason there’s not peace between Israel and the Palestinians — none whatsoever.” Trump previously met with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu](http://time.com/4642753/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-jerusalem/), and said during a joint press conference that he had no preference between a two-state and one-state solution. Trump’s meeting with Abbas will take place at 11:50 a.m. ET. Watch live above. Donald Trump Meets Palestinian Leader Abbas: Watch Online ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4764854/donald-trump-palestinian-leader-abbas-watch-online/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4764854/donald-trump-palestinian-leader-abbas-watch-online/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Trump Meets Palestinian Leader Abbas at the White House","datePublished":"2017-05-03T15:20:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:43:29.294Z","description":"Trump will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas","url":"https://time.com/4764854/donald-trump-palestinian-leader-abbas-watch-online/","keywords":["White House","livestream","onetime","President Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6283798ff88f763/6988cbcf86f68e38176e48ba/mahmoud-abbas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6283798ff88f763/6988cbcf86f68e38176e48ba/mahmoud-abbas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mahmoud Abbas Visits Berlin","caption":"Mahmoud Abbas Visits Berlin","creditText":"Sean Gallup—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4764854/donald-trump-palestinian-leader-abbas-watch-online/","name":"Watch Live: President Trump Meets Palestinian Leader Abbas at the White House"}}]}] ```