US EditionTrump on Juneteenth: US has ‘too many non-working holidays’
- On Juneteenth 2023, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social criticizing too many non-working holidays in the U.S., including Juneteenth.
- Trump's remarks referenced Juneteenth, a federal holiday established in 2021 by President Joe Biden to commemorate the June 19, 1865, emancipation announcement in Galveston, Texas.
- Trump claimed in earlier statements that he made Juneteenth "very famous" and called the holiday important, despite not commemorating it publicly this year or signing a proclamation.
- In his post, Trump said non-working holidays cost the country billions and businesses want to remain open because workers "don't want it either," highlighting economic concerns.
- Juneteenth remains a federal holiday recognized by over 30 states and marks a historic end to slavery, but debates continue about its observance amid economic and political tensions.
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Trump: Juneteenth One Of 'Too Many Non-Working Holidays'
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty Black MAGA, y’all alright? Donald Trump has once again shown us who he is, the most un-American, unproductive, and unapologetically divisive figure ever elected to the highest office in the land, who has the audacity to complain about “non-working” holidays—namely, Juneteenth. On Thursday (Jun 19), as Black Americans celebrated Juneteenth, commemorating the end of chattel slavery in the United States, Trump didn’t is…
President Donald Trump called on Thursday to reduce national holidays, arguing that days off cost the United States billions of dollars in losses.
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN President Donald Trump on Thursday called for curtailing national holidays, arguing that the days off cost the United States billions of dollars in losses. “Too many holidays with no work in America. It costs our Country BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all these businesses closed,” Trump wrote on Truth Social during Juneteenth, a newly designated national holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the US.
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