President Donald Trump made a social media appearance on Thursday on the federal holiday (Federal Holiday) to criticize the number of “non-working holidays” in the United States.
“There are too many non-working holidays in the United States. Losing our country billions of dollars to shut down all these businesses. Workers don’t want it either! Soon we end up having a holiday every year. If we are going, it has to change and make America great again!” Trump wrote in his post on his Truth Social Platform.
The sixteenth century is the oldest regular celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. It commemorated June 19, 1865- the day when General Gordon Granger rode to Galveston, Texas, and told a group of slaves that the Civil War had ended and that they were free–more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the declaration of liberation.
During a White House press conference Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump is unlikely to mark a federal holiday.
“I didn’t track his signature on the announcement today,” Levitt said. “I know it’s a federal holiday – I want to thank everyone who comes to work. We’re certainly here, we’re working 24/7 now.”
Trump had previously tried to praise JuneTe for taking the tenth “very famous” and said in his first semester of 2020: “No one has heard of it.” His comments were posted in the ongoing civil unrest after George Floyd’s death in the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department.
Trump had previously promised to make Junte 1 a federal holiday during the 2020 presidential campaign. Under President Joe Biden’s leadership, Junteenth was not officially a holiday until 2021.
Since reelection, Trump has removed the DEI program from the core of his administration and has weakened the federal government’s diversity efforts through a series of execution orders.
CNN’s Donald Judd contributed to the report.
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