{"id":65841,"date":"2026-02-17T15:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-honors-jesse-jackson-as-force-of-nature\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:11:53","slug":"trump-honors-jesse-jackson-as-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-honors-jesse-jackson-as-force-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump honors Jesse Jackson as &#8220;force of nature&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>President Trump on Tuesday extended sympathies to the family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson following his <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jesse-jackson-dies-age-84-civil-rights-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">death at 84<\/a><\/span> and called the civil rights leader a &#8220;force of nature like few others before him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116086206069142759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a> on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said he knew Jackson years before he became president and provided assistance to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization that Jackson founded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and &#8216;street smarts,'&#8221; Mr. Trump wrote. &#8220;He was very gregarious &#8211; Someone who truly loved people! Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a Racist by the Scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left, Democrats ALL, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president listed policies enacted during his two administrations that he said Jackson supported, including criminal justice reform, more funding for historically Black colleges and universities, and &#8220;Opportunity Zones,&#8221; which are tax incentives that aim to spur economic development in low-income areas and were created through the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-tax-bill-is-one-year-old-here-are-the-winners-and-losers\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">2017 tax reform legislation<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesse was a force of nature like few others before him,&#8221; Mr. Trump said, adding that Jackson &#8220;loved his family greatly, and to them I send my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson&#8217;s family said in a statement he died peacefully Tuesday morning. He was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/rev-jesse-jackson-hospitalized-november-2025\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">hospitalized in November<\/a><\/span> for observation for a neurodegenerative condition, which he had been diagnosed with last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump and Jackson&#8217;s relationship dates back decades. Photos show the two men together at a boxing match in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1988, as well as at a campaign event in New York later that year. In 1997, the president announced he would donate office space to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainbowpush.org\/rpc_new_york_wall_street_project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wall Street Project<\/a> in The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street, which he was renovating, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/01\/16\/business\/jesse-jackson-sets-up-office-to-monitor-corporate-action.html#:~:text=office%20space%20to%20Jackson's%20civil%20rights%20group%2C,Street%2C%20a%20building%20Trump%20is%20renovating%20(L)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/public-affairs-event\/user-clip-jesse-jackson-introducing-donald-trump\/4687218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">introduced Mr. Trump<\/a> during a conference hosted by the Wall Street Project in January 1998, jokingly calling him &#8220;the most bashful and the most retreating and the most self-effacing&#8221; as Mr. Trump looked on.<\/p>\n<p>One year later, Jackson again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/public-affairs-event\/user-clip-donald-trump-jesse-jackson\/4620219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">introduced<\/a> Mr. Trump and praised him for offering the Wall Street Project work space at 40 Wall Street, which Jackson said was &#8220;to make a statement about our having a presence there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One can miss his seriousness and his commitment, for his success is beyond argument,&#8221; Jackson said of Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/rev-jesse-jackson-presidential-campaigns-1984-1988\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">who ran for president as a Democrat<\/a><\/span> in 1984 and 1988, also said that during those bids, Mr. Trump attended a business meeting hosted by the campaign in New York because Mr. Trump &#8220;has this sense of the curious and the will \u2026 to make things better. 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