boston | President Donald Trump raised more than a few eyebrows with his
remarks Wednesday — the first day of Black History Month — during an
“African American History Month Listening Session” at the White House.
Sitting beside Housing secretary nominee Ben Carson in the Roosevelt
Room, Trump began the session with a circuitous speech in which the
president, among other things, lambasted the media and rehashed a recent controversy involving a Martin Luther King Jr. statue in the Oval Office.
“Donald Trump just gave a Black History Month speech about the persecution of Donald Trump,” reads the headline of the Toronto Star‘s account of the speech. A few highlights below, as noted by reporters:
