Content Details
DCPD-202600127 - The President's News Conference
- Category
- Budget and Presidential Materials
- Collection
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Publisher
- Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
- Event Date
- February 20, 2026
- President
- Donald J. Trump
- Document Categories
- Interviews With the News Media : News conferences, February 20
- Subjects
- 2024 Presidential election
Automobile industry, strengthening efforts
Board of Peace
Canada, trade with U.S.
China, President
China, synthetic opioid supply chain
Crime rates
Economic improvement
Europe, energy sources
Europe, migration issues
Farmers, Federal assistance
Federal Reserve System
Free and fair trade
House minority leader
India, Prime Minister
India, relations with Pakistan
India, relations with U.S.
India, trade with U.S.
Iran, diplomatic engagement with U.S.
Iran, political unrest and violence
News media, Presidential interviews
Opioid epidemic, efforts to combat
Pakistan, Prime Minister
Pakistan, relations with India
Semiconductor manufacturing
Steel and aluminum, U.S. tariffs on foreign imports
Stock market
Supreme Court Associate Justice
Switzerland, trade with U.S.
Syria, President
Tariffs
Tax Code reform
U.S. diplomatic efforts, expansion
U.S. military readiness, improvement efforts
U.S. Supreme Court decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump concerning tariff policy
U.S. Trade Representative
Vietnam, General Secretary
- Names
- Alito, Samuel A., Jr.; Barrett, Amy Coney; Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Ford, William C., Jr.; Gorsuch, Neil M.; Greer, Jamieson L.; Jackson, Ketanji Brown; Jeffries, Hakeem S.; Kagan, Elena; Kavanaugh, Brett M.; Keller-Sutter, Karin; Lâm, Tô; Modi, Narendra; Moore, Stephen; Powell, Jerome H.; Roberts, John G., Jr.; Saville, Andrew; Saville, Earl Dean, Jr.; Shara', Ahmad Husayn al-; Sharif, Shehbaz; Sotomayor, Sonia M.; Thomas, Clarence; Warsh, Kevin M.; Xi Jinping.
- Locations
- Washington, DC
- Notes
- The President's news conference began at 1:20 p.m. in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan; Andrew Saville, president, Coosa Steel Corp., and his father Earl Dean Saville, Jr.; Stephen Moore, senior visiting fellow in economics, Heritage Foundation; General Secretary Tô Lâm of Vietnam; House Minority Leader Hakeem S. Jeffries; William C. Ford, Jr., executive chairman, Ford Motor Co.; Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors Jerome H. Powell; Kevin M. Warsh, the President's nominee to be Federal Reserve Chairman; former President Karin Keller-Sutter of Switzerland; Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justices Sonia M. Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson; and President Ahmad Husayn al-Shara' of Syria. He also referred to Proclamation 11012. A reporter referred to Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani and Commander in Chief of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazloum Abdi of Syria.