"President Trump <a href=""http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/politics/african-american-meeting-donald-trump-frederick-douglass/"" target=""_blank"">met with several African-American leaders</a> for a listening session to kick off Black History Month on Wednesday, February 1. Trump was seated between Ben Carson, his nominee to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Omarosa Manigault, a former ""Apprentice"" contestant and now an assistant to the President."