Content Details
DCPD-202600281 - Remarks on the Situation in Israel and Lebanon and an Exchange With Reporters
- Category
- Budget and Presidential Materials
- Collection
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Publisher
- Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
- Event Date
- April 23, 2026
- President
- Donald J. Trump
- Document Categories
- Addresses and Remarks : Israel and Lebanon situation
- Subjects
- 2020 Presidential election
Digital services taxes
Economic improvement
Election security and integrity, strengthening efforts
Federal Reserve System
Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup
Gasoline costs
Group of Seven (G–7) nations
Group of Twenty (G–20) nations
Iran, commercial transit through Strait of Hormuz
Iran, regional involvement
Israel, Ambassador to U.S.
Israel, military operations in Lebanon
Israel, military operations in Lebanon" n
Israel, Prime Minister
Israel, U.S. Ambassador
Lebanon, Ambassador to U.S.
Lebanon, Hizballah political-paramilitary organization
Lebanon, Israeli military operations
Lebanon, President
Lebanon, U.S. Ambassador
n
Oil and natural gas, domestic production
Prediction markets
Russia, conflict in Ukraine
Russia, President
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act
Saudi Arabia, King
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Spirit Airlines
Stock market
Tariffs
Ukraine, President
Ukraine, Russian invasion and airstrikes
Venezuela, oil supply and refining
Venezuela, U.S. military capture and exfiltration of President Maduro
Vice President
Virginia, Governor
- Names
- Aoun, Joseph; Bessent, Scott K.H.; Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Huckabee, Michael D.; Issa, Michel; Leiter, Yechiel; Lutnick, Howard W.; Moawad, Nada Hamadeh; Netanyahu, Benjamin; Obama, Barack; Powell, Jerome H.; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Rubio, Marco A.; Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, King; Spanberger, Abigail D.; Trudeau, Justin P.J.; Van Dyke, Gannon K.; Vance, James D. "J.D."; Youngkin, Glenn A.; Zelenskyy, Volodymyr.
- Locations
- Washington, DC
- Notes
- The President spoke at 5:24 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel; King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia; former Presidents Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Barack Obama; MSG Gannon K. Van Dyke, USA, who was indicted on charges of unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction; U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard W. Lutnick; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott K.H. Bessent; former Prime Minister Justin P.J. Trudeau of Canada; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine; and Gov. Abigail D. Spanberger and former Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin of Virginia. He also referred to S. 1383. Reporters referred to Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Lebanese Affairs Prince Yazid bin Mohammed bin Fahd Al Farhan of Saudi Arabia; former President Nicolás Maduro Moros of Venezuela, who was captured, along with his wife Cilia Flores, in a U.S. military operation in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 3 and exfiltrated to the U.S. for criminal processing in New York City; and President Xi Jinping of China. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on April 24.