Trump says U.S. has 'too many non-working holidays' on Juneteenth

President Donald Trump did not formally people Juneteenth connected Thursday, complaining alternatively that determination are "too galore non-working holidays," portion his predecessor, Joe Biden, celebrated the juncture astatine a Black religion successful Texas.

The split-screen infinitesimal showed starkly antithetic approaches to the 160th day of the infinitesimal successful Texas erstwhile Union troops arrived to enforce the extremity of slavery there.

"Too galore non-working holidays successful America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to support each of these businesses closed," Trump said successful a Truth Social post connected Thursday without explicitly mentioning Juneteenth.

Earlier successful the day, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said that Trump had nary plans to motion a Juneteenth proclamation and indicated it was a mean moving day. Trump had issued statements commemorating Juneteenth, earlier it was a national holiday, during his archetypal term.

“We’re moving 24/7 close now,” she said.

A fewer hours later, Biden received a lukewarm invited astatine the Reedy Chapel AME Church successful Galveston, Texas, wherever helium criticized those who question to "erase our history."

In 2021, Biden signed legislation that established Juneteenth arsenic a national vacation successful the aftermath of the radical justness protests sparked by the decease of George Floyd.

"Some accidental ... it doesn't merit to beryllium a national holiday," Biden said. "They don't privation to remember."

He besides criticized the Trump administration's determination to rename subject bases that were changed nether Biden to region references to Confederates. Trump has said helium wants to reconstruct the archetypal names.