Why are URLs not getting linkified when enclosed in Html.fromHTML() in my Android app?

Question

I have the following code executed in onBindViewHolder() of a RecyclerView:

    String commentPrompt = "<html><b>" + ((ViewHolder) viewHolder).comment.getText().toString() + "</b></html>";
    TextView commentText = new TextView(context);
    commentText.setText(item.comment);
    Linkify.addLinks(commentText, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

    if (!item.comment.contains("www.") || item.comment.contains("https://")) {
        ((ViewHolder) viewHolder).comment_text.setText(Html.fromHtml(commentPrompt + BLANK + item.comment, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));
    } else {
        ((ViewHolder) viewHolder).comment_text.setText(Html.fromHtml(commentPrompt + BLANK + commentText.getText(), Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));
    }

    ((ViewHolder) viewHolder).comment_text.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

The problem is that when

        ((ViewHolder) viewHolder).comment_text.setText(Html.fromHtml(commentPrompt + BLANK + commentText.getText(), Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));

is called, commentText is not linkified (text at the bottom):

But when I change the code to the following:

((ViewHolder) viewHolder).comment_text.setText(commentText.getText());

The URLs do get linkified, but I lose the "Comment:" prompt:

How can I preserve the bold-faced prompt and still display live links?

Why are URLs not getting linkified when enclosed in Html.fromHTML() in my Android app?

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