On February 21, one week after the 2/14/18 Parkland shootings, President Trump, along with VP Pence and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, met in the White House with survivors of the Parkland shooting incident, as well as families of the 17 murdered Parkland students and faculty. Also in attendance were families representing the dead students of Columbine (1999) and Sandy Hook Elementary (2012).

President Trump said, "We want to learn everything we can. Starting about 2 minutes after this meeting we are going to work. We don't want others to go through the kind of pain that you've gone through. It wouldn't be right..."

VP Pence stated at the outset of the listening session that the administration would make school safety the administration's top priority.

Andrew Pollock, whose 18-year-old daughter was murdered in the Parkland shooting incident, denounced the lack of effective response since Columbine. "It doesn't make sense. Fix it! There should have been one school shooting. We should have fixed it. And I am pissed. Because my daughter is in the cemetery..."

A Parkland survivor asked, "How many children have to get shot?"

President Trump promised, "We're going to get it done. It's not going to be talk like it was in the past."