Content Details
DCPD-202600115 - Remarks at a Black History Month Reception
- Category
- Budget and Presidential Materials
- Collection
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Publisher
- Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
- Event Date
- February 18, 2026
- President
- Donald J. Trump
- Document Categories
- Addresses and Remarks : Black History Month reception
- Subjects
- America's 250th birthday celebration
Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division
Bahamas, U.S. Ambassador
Black History Month
California, 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Crime rates
Criminal justice system, reform efforts
Deaths, Jesse L. Jackson, Sr
Department of Agriculture, Director of Public and Private Partnerships
Department of Agriculture, National Nutrition Adviser
Department of War, General Counsel
District of Columbia, law enforcement improvement efforts
Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup
Gasoline costs
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Illegal immigration
Inflation
Job creation and growth
Massachusetts, Harvard University in Cambridge
National Guard
Opportunity Zones, improvement efforts
Pardons and commutations
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Saudi Arabia, King
School choice and voucher programs
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of the Treasury
Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
Stock market
Tax Code reform
Tennessee, law enforcement improvement efforts in Memphis
Undocumented immigrants, deportation of criminals
Venezuela, U.S. military capture and exfiltration of President Maduro
White House Ballroom construction project
White House Director of Minority Outreach
White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
White House Pardon Czar
- Names
- Alexaander, Miracle; Alexander, Greta; Bessent, Scott K.H.; Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Bradford, Arnetta; Bradford, Chad; Brown, Jim; Carson, Benjamin S., Sr.; Carson, Candy; Chavez-DeRemer, Lori M.; Cook, Forlesia; Dhillon, Harmeet K.; Hannity, Sean P.; Infantino, Giovanni V.; Jackson, Jesse L., Sr.; Johnson, Alice M.; Johnson, Diante; Kennedy, John N.; King, Alveda C.; Levell, Bruce; Matthews, Earl; Minaj, Nicki; Mitchell, Kelly; Patton, Lynne; Rankin, Corinn; Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, King; Scott, Timothy E.; Taylor, Lawrence; Terrell, Leo; Trump, Melania; Turner, E. Scott; Tyson, Mike; Walker, Herschel J.
- Locations
- Washington, DC
- Notes
- The President spoke at 3:12 p.m. in the East Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to civil rights advocate and former Democratic Presidential candidate Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., who died on February 17; Sen. Timothy E. Scott; Sean P. Hannity, host, Fox News Channel's "Hannity" program; White House Director of Minority Outreach Lynne Patton of White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities Executive Director Kelly Mitchell; Corrin Rankin, chairwoman, California Republican Party; Diante Johnson, founder and president, Black Conservative Federation; Giovanni V. Infantino, president, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA); former professional boxer Mike Tyson; Jim Brown, former fullback, National Football League's Cleveland Browns; Lawrence Taylor, former linebacker, NFL's New York Giants; King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia; and Chad Bradford, husband of Arnetta Bradford, owner of the HeBrews 11:1 coffee shop in Hope, AR. Ms. Bradford referred to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on February 19.