Donald Trump expressed his condolences after the death of Jesse Jackson. “He will be missed”

Ashley Davis17/02/2026

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“I knew him well long before I became president. He was a good man, with personality, persistence and 'street smarts,'” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website. The president emphasized that for years he had provided offices for Jackson's organization, the Rainbow Coalition, in his building on Wall Street in New York.

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Donald Trump expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased. He also refuted accusations of racism

Trump used the condolence post to defend himself against accusations of racism, writing that “despite being falsely and persistently called a racist by scoundrels and lunatics from the radical left,” he was always willing to support Jackson.

The president also listed his achievements in areas close to Jackson, which he had asked for and which, according to Trump, no other president had dared to undertake. This is about criminal justice reform and funding for African American colleges and universities (HBCUs). He also claimed that Jackson “hated” Barack Obama.

“He loved his family. My deepest sympathies and condolences go to them. We will miss him!” – the president concluded the entry.

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Pastor Jesse Jackson has died. He was 84 years old

Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday at the age of 84. He was an icon of the fight for civil rights of black people in the United States and a close associate of Martin Luther King. After his assassination in 1968, he became one of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement. In the 1980s, he was also a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, becoming the first African American to achieve significant success in the presidential primaries.

In 2017, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and in 2025, progressive supranuclear palsy was confirmed. In the last months of his life he was hospitalized.

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