President Trump appeared to mark Juneteenth on Thursday with a Reality Social put up arguing the US has “too many non-working holidays.”
“It’s costing our Nation $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to maintain all of those companies closed. The employees don’t need it both! Quickly we’ll find yourself having a vacation for each … working day of the 12 months,” Mr. Trump wrote. “It should change if we’re going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The put up didn’t explicitly point out Juneteenth. CBS Information has reached out to the White Home for remark.
The vacation commemorates the top of slavery within the U.S. after the Civil Battle — particularly, the day in 1865 when Union troopers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and belatedly introduced that enslaved individuals had been freed.
Juneteenth has been a federal vacation since 2021. Federal and state authorities places of work are typically closed in consequence, together with banks and inventory exchanges, however non-public companies aren’t required to shut for Juneteenth or some other vacation, and many retail institutions stay open.
When requested earlier Thursday if the president deliberate to commemorate Juneteenth, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters: “I am not monitoring his signature on a proclamation right now. I do know this can be a federal vacation. I need to thank all of you for exhibiting as much as work. We’re definitely right here. We’re working 24/7 proper now.”
Mr. Trump honored Juneteenth throughout his first time period, together with in 2017, when he known as it “a historic day recognizing the top of slavery.” He issued comparable messages in 2018 and 2019, and in 2020, he mentioned throughout an interview that he “made Juneteenth very well-known” — referring to his determination to not maintain a marketing campaign rally in Oklahoma on the vacation.
“It is truly an necessary occasion, an necessary time. However no one had ever heard of it,” Mr. Trump mentioned in a 2020 interview with The Wall Avenue Journal.
Former President Joe Biden signed a invoice making Juneteenth an official federal vacation in 2021, after the measure handed each homes of Congress with overwhelming bipartisan margins. One longtime backer of the vacation is Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.
