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President Biden’s public schedule for Friday 02/17/2023:

10:15 AM Official ScheduleThe President receives the President’s Daily Brief
Oval Office Closed Press
10:30 AM Pool Call TimeIn-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
1:30 PM Press Briefing​ Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

Press briefing:


President Biden has tweeted…

He has 1 tweet so far for Friday.

Freshman Senator John Fetterman on Thursday checked himself in to Walter Reed Medical Center for “clinical depression.” At the time of the above statement, Fetterman has remained as an inpatient to receive care on a voluntary base.

His wife’s tweets.

I have mad respect for Fetterman seeking any kind of treatment. I wish him well in recovery.


When the post was posted for Thursday, President Biden had tweeted 1 time. He added 11 tweets giving him a Thursday Tweeting Total of 12 tweets and 0 retweets.

State of the Union 02/07/2023…

President Biden: Let’s make sure working parents can afford to raise a family with sick days, paid family and medical leave, affordable childcare.  (Applause.)  That’s going to enable millions of more people to go and stay at work. 



The photo was taken 09/09/2022 in Ohio during the Intel Groundbreaking event.

The text can be found…

02/15/2023; Economy remarks from Lanham, Maryland.

President Biden: The unemployment rate is 3.4 percent. That’s a 50-year low. My first two years in office, we created 800,000 new manufacturing jobs. Eight hundred thousand. (Applause.)

02/14/2023; NACo Keynote Address Washington Hilton Hotel.

President Biden: In my first two years in office, we created 800,000 manufacturing jobs.  Where in the hell is it written to say we can’t lead the world in manufacturing again?  Where does it say that?  (Applause.)  

02/08/2023; Economy remarks from DeForest, Wisconsin.

President Biden: My first two years in office, we’ve created 800,000 manufacturing jobs.  (Applause.)  Where — I mean it sincerely — with jobs you can live on.  Where is it written America can’t lead the world in manufacturing again?  I didn’t see it written anywhere.

02/07/2023; State of the Union.

President Biden: We’ve already created, with your help, 800,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs — the fastest growth in 40 years.  (Applause.)

President Biden: And we’ve already created — (applause) — we’ve already created 800,000 new manufacturing jobs without this law, before the law kicks in.


The YouTube is 9 minutes and 27 seconds long. His full remarks can be found here.


Economy remarks Lanham, Maryland, 02/15/2023…

The video is 38 seconds long.

President Biden: And, by the way, while we’re on the topic of Medicare: The distinguished senator — and I mean — I shouldn’t be smart guy — Senator Rick Scott from Florida, who is responsible for getting Republicans elected to the Senate, is a little bit in hot water right now. (Laughter.) Because his plan is to sunset Medicare and Social Security — both. Meaning if you don’t reauthorize them every five years, they go out of existence. Sunset them — they’ll go away. As I said in the State of the Union, if everyone tries — if anyone tries to get rid of Social Security or Medicare, I will veto it. (Applause.) If that’s the Republican dream, I’m their nightmare. (Laughter and applause.)


The YouTube is 7 minutes and 35 seconds long.


Response to Aerial Objects Remarks 02/16/2023…

President Biden: I’m grateful for the work over the last several weeks of our intelligence, diplomatic, and military professionals who have proved once again to be the most capable in the world.  And I want to thank you all.

President Biden:  Good afternoon.  Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the incursion by China’s high-altitude balloon, our military, through the North American Aerospace Defense Command — so-called NOR- — NORAD — closely scrutinized the — our airspace, including enhancing our radar to pick up more slow-moving objects above our country and around the world. In doing so, they tracked three unidentified objects: one in Alaska, Canada, and over Lake Huron in the Midwest.

President Biden: We don’t yet know exactly what these three objects were.  But nothing — nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from other — any other country. The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.

President Biden: That’s why I’ve directed my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward, distinguishing — distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not.

President Biden: In addition, we’ve derived — I’ve directly my National Security Advisor to lead a government-wide effort to make sure we are positioned to deal safely and effectively with the objects in our airspace. First, we will establish a better inventory of unmanned airborne objects in space — above the United States’ airspace and make sure that inventory is accessible and up to date. Second, we’ll implement further measures to improve our capacity to detect unmanned objecti- — objects in our airspace. Third, we’ll update the rules and regulations for launching and maintaining unmanned objects in the skies above the United States of America. And fourth, my Secretary of State will lead an effort to help establish a global — a globa- — a common global norms in this largely unregulated space. These steps will lead to safer and more secure skies for our air travelers, our military, our scientists, and for people on the ground as well.  That’s my job as your President and Commander-in-Chief. As the events of the previous days have shown, we’ll always act to protect the interest of the American people and the security of the American people.


His full remarks prior to the showing of “Till” 02/16/2023:

Hello, hello, hello.  (Applause.)  Hello!  The House is here! Well, welcome to the White House, everyone.  This is a special, special occasion.

You know, I’d like to start by thanking the members of Congress who are here.  And is — is Emanuel Cleaver here?  I know that Al Green is here, and Jonathan Jackson is here.  There you are.  I gotcha.  Okay, now I can see you.  Thank you.

I’m honored to host all of you at this special evening during Black History Month for a simple reason: History matters.  (Applause.)  History matters.

Hi, guys.  How are you?  Are you all students?

AUDIENCE MEMBERS:  Yes!

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, good to see you.  Welcome to the White House.

AUDIENCE MEMBERS:  Thank you!

THE PRESIDENT:  Now, remember me when one of you are President and they say, “Joe Biden is in the waiting room.”  Don’t say, “Joe who?”  Okay?  (Laughter.)  You know what I mean?  All right.  Anyway —

To remember history is to shine a light on the good, the bad, the truth, and who we are as a nation.

And our history shows that while darkness and de- — denialism hide very much, they erase nothing.  They can’t erase the past, and they shouldn’t.

Only with truth comes healing and justice and repair and another step forward in the — for that promise we all made but have never reached: a more perfect union.  But we’ve never fully given up on it.

That’s why we can’t just choose to learn what we want to know and what we should kn- — we have to learn what we should know.  We should know everything about our history.  And that’s the — great nations do.  Great nations.  And we’re a great nation.

And that’s why history matters so much.  You know, that’s why this film matters so much.

You know, it was almost exactly one year ago that I signed a law more than 100 years in the making.  (Applause.)  It was an honor.  It was one of the great honors of my career.  The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime.

You know, folks, lynching is pure terror, enforcing the lie that not everyone belongs in America and not everyone is created equal.  Pure terror to systematically undermine hard-fought civil rights.  Innocent men, women, children hung by a noose from trees.  Bodies burned, drowned, castrated.

Their crimes?  Trying to vote.  Trying to go to school.  Trying to own a business.  Trying to re- — preach the gospel.  False — false accusations of murder, arson, robbery.  Lynched for simply being Black, nothing more.  With white crowds, white families gathered to celebrate the spectacle, taking pictures of the bodies and mailing them as postcards. 

Hard to believe, but that’s what was done.  And some people still want to do that.

You know, as this film powerfully does, it tells the story of a mother’s loss and a young son’s promise, a nation’s reckoning about hate, violence, and power.

You know, before 14-year-old Emmett Till left on his trip to visit his family in Mississippi, Ms. Till, a teacher who knew the history, reminded him: “Be very careful how you speak.  Say ‘yes, sir,’ ‘no, ma’am.’  Don’t hesitate to humble yourself if you have to get down on your knees.”

That conversation is not in the distant past.  Same talk today.  So many Black and brown family — parents have to have that similar conversation with their children, worrying about whether they’ll come home from a walk down the street or playing in the park or just driving their car — like we saw Tyre Nichols, just last month — and becoming a victim to too many acts of hate and violence unleashed on those known and unknown.

Folks, I thought — I got involved in the civil rights movement as a public defender, as my colleagues know, when I was a kid getting out of law school.  And I thought you could defeat hate, we — because we passed the Civil Rights Act and so many other things.

But I learned a lesson: Hate never goes away.  It just hides under the rocks until it’s given a little oxygen by lousy people. 

And what stops it?  Only one thing that stops it is all of us.  Silence is complicity.  It really is.  Silence is complicity.  (Applause.)

And, folks, we can’t remain silent.  Denialism is worse, and it’s unacceptable.

To the Till family, the civil rights leaders, faith leaders, and so many others gathered here today, as I told many of you at the bill signing last year: Thank you, thank you, thank you for never ever, ever giving up and always — as my mother would say — keeping the faith.

To everyone involved in this film, to paraphrase Maya Angelou: People will never forget how you make them feel.  People will never forget how you make them feel.

You know, you have that artist’s gifts of making us feel our common humanity.

And there is one more hero in this story they have to acknowledge, and it’s — a lot of people forget this: the Black press at the time. 

At the time — (applause) — at the time, Jet Magazine, the Chicago Defender, and other Black newspapers were unflinching and brave in sharing the story of Emmett Till and searing it into the nation’s consciousness.

Fearless trailblazers like Ida B. Wells, a brilliant, gifted writer, exposed the barbaric — (applause) — the barbaric nature of lynching as a tool to intimidate and subjugate Black Americans.

She once said, quote, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon the wrongs.”  “Turn the light of truth upon the wrongs.”  That’s our charge today; it still exists. 

Just imagine Emmett Till standing with us today.  Just imagine if he was standing with us today.  Maybe he’d be a grandpop, passing down wisdom of the struggle and hope to all the young people here today.

At the start of this new year, I signed the — posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and Mrs. Till. 

Imagine — (applause) — no, imagine if we could’ve done that in person, celebrating their contributions to the American life as a reflection of the dreams that they made possible.

Imagine.  And let’s continue the work ahead after we imagine that to inspire people of this great nation to reach higher, search for the stars, dig deeper in our souls, to fill the true — the true and sacred promise of America for all Americans.

And now, from the White House, during Black History Month, it’s my honor — and it is a genuine honor — maybe the greatest honor I’ve had since I’ve become President — my honor to introduce the film, “Till.”  God love him.  (Applause.)

White House.gov. 02/16/2023.

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