Subj : Re: Question for Fox News
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Wed Jun 15 2022 01:13:48

On 15 Jun 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
 AT>  MP> I am not 100% on how that works.  I would guess that the White House
 AT>  MP> announces that the President plans to address the Nation on a date an
 AT>  MP> time, and then the networks decide if they are covering it.
 AT> That's what I always thought too, until now. Trump can't be that much of
 AT> a dummy that he just forgot to conduct those broadcasts.

They are referred to officially as "Address to the Nation," and apparently
the President requests them. Obama requested 20 of the over two terms, and
Trump requested 26 of them in one term:

* Sep. 9, 2020     On Judicial Appointments
* June 1, 2020     On the protests and riots following the death of George
Floyd
* March 11, 2020   On the coronavirus pandemic
* Feb. 6, 2020     On the acquittal of the impeachment vote
* Jan. 8, 2020     On the assassination of Qassam Soleimani and subsequent
Iranian attack on US bases in Iraq
* Oct. 27, 2019    On the Killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
* Oct. 23, 2019    On the Turkish Invasion of Syria
* August 5, 2019   On the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton
* Jan. 25, 2019    Announcing an end to the government shutdown
* Jan. 19, 2019    Announcing a new immigration proposal to end the
government shutdown
* Jan. 8, 2019     On the Government Shutdown and the Proposed United
States-Mexico Border wall
* July 9, 2018     Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme
Court
* May 8, 2018 Termination of the Iran Nuclear Deal
* April 13, 2018   Allied Airstrikes on Damascus and Homs
* Feb. 15, 2018    On the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting
* Dec. 18, 2017    On National Security
* Dec. 6, 2017     Recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and moving
of US embassy
* Nov. 15, 2017    On returning from a trip to Asia
* Oct. 13, 2017    On United States Policy towards Iran
* Oct. 2, 2017     On the Mandalay Bay Shooting
* August 21, 2017  On the situation in Afghanistan
* August 14, 2017  On the Charlottesville Race Riots
* June 14, 2017    On the Congressional baseball shooting
* June 1, 2017     Withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate
Agreement
* April 6, 2017    US Strike on Shayrat airfield
* Jan. 31, 2017    Nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme
Court

Jeff.

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