Ledger · First term · № 110
News conference on the war against ISIS 'in about two weeks'
Never delivered“We're going to be having a news conference in about two weeks to let everybody know how well we're doing.”
- Promised
- , Remarks during the Middle East trip on May 21, 2017, repeated at a televised Cabinet meeting on June 12, 2017
- Stated deadline
- “in about two weeks” → June 4, 2017
- Overdue by
- 9 years, 3 months as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 2 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Foreign policy
- Era
- First term
What happened
No news conference was ever held. Vox tracked it: the first deadline passed, Trump repeated the promise at his June 12 Cabinet meeting, and the second deadline passed on June 26 without the administration organising or even scheduling one.