DCPD-202600321 - Remarks During a Visit to National Mall Reflecting Pool and an Exchange With Reporters - DCPD-202600321 | Content Details

DCPD-202600321 - Remarks During a Visit to National Mall Reflecting Pool and an Exchange With Reporters

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

Document Categories: Addresses and Remarks : Visit to National Mall Reflecting Pool

Subjects: 2024 Presidential election
2026 midterm elections
Brazil : President
China : President
Crime rates
District of Columbia, law enforcement improvement effort
Gasoline costs
Holy See (Vatican City), Pope
Iran, commercial transit through Strait of Hormuz
Iran, diplomatic engagement with U.S.
Iran, U.S. military operations
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, renovation work
Oil and natural gas, domestic production
Oil markets and prices
Pakistan, Chief of Defense Forces
Pakistan : Prime Minister
ran, nuclear weapons development
Secretary of Homeland Security
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Interior
Stock market
Tariffs
Turkey U.S. citizen, release from detention
U.S. Court of International Trade
Visit to National Mall Reflecting Pool
White House Ballroom construction project
White House Border Czar

Names: Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Brunson, Andrew C.; Burgum, Douglas J.; Cornyn, John, III; Homan, Thomas D.; Katzmann, Gary S.; Leo XIV, Pope; Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio; Mullin, Markwayne; Munir Ahmed Shah, Syed Asim; Obama, Barack; Paxton, W. Kenneth, Jr.; Reif, Timothy M.; Restani, Habe A.; Rubio, Marco A.; Sharif, Shehbaz; Xi Jinping.

Notes: The President spoke at 7:27 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. In his remarks, he referred to Andrew C. Brunson, pastor, Dirilis (Resurrection) Church in Izmir, Turkey, who was detained by Turkish authorities on October 7, 2016, and returned to the U.S. custody on October 12, 2018; Gary S. Katzmann and Timothy M. Reif, judges, and Habe A. Restani senior judge U.S. Court of International Trade; Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir of Pakistan. A reporter referred to Jin "Ezra" Mingri, pastor, Zion Church of Beijing, China, who was detained by Chinese authorities in 2025. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on May 8.