As federal and local governments, the Post Office, banks, financial institutions and other businesses closed down for Juneteenth, President Donald J. Trump marked the newest national holiday in his own unique way.
In 2021, Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden declared that “Juneteenth National Independence Day” would be added to the calendar of official federal holidays, sticking with this theme of stoking racial divisiveness by creating an alternate “Independence Day” for blacks weeks before the Fourth of July, a decision that came as a part of the great “racial reckoning” after the death of career criminal and drug addict George Floyd.
With the media bemoaning the White House’s silence about Juneteenth, Trump took to Truth Social to suggest that Biden’s federal holiday should be clawed back because it’s wasteful and detrimental to the economy.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 19, 2025
“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Thursday.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked by a reporter about whether Trump planned to commemorate the holiday during Thursday’s daily press briefing.
Karoline Leavitt is having none of the phony Juneteenth holiday BS from the White House press pool today pic.twitter.com/lXMw6jVp1L
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) June 19, 2025
“I’m not tracking his signature on a proclamation today. I know this is a federal holiday, I want to thank all of you for showing up for work. We are certainly here. We’re working 24/7 right now,” she responded, brushing off the attempt to stir the pot by suggesting that the administration has more important things to worry about, like the war between Israel and Iran and whether the U.S. will soon bomb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment plant.
To mark the federal holiday that he created, the disgraced former leader traveled to Galveston, Texas on Juneteenth where he spoke at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church where the original order that announced the end of slavery in Texas was read on June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
One of the proudest moments of my presidency was making Juneteenth a federal holiday. It’s a day of liberation. It’s a day of remembrance. And it’s a day of celebration. Today, it was an honor to be in Galveston where freedom rang out 160 years ago. https://t.co/C7mmVKEEGD
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 20, 2025
The senile Democrat said that “the events of Juneteenth are of monumental importance to America’s story,” adding, “Still today, some say to me and you that this doesn’t deserve to be a federal holiday. They don’t want to remember…the moral stain of slavery.”
Biden couldn’t resist taking a not-so-thinly veiled dig at Trump, criticizing the renaming of military bases that he had previously stripped of their Confederate namesakes.
“What are we doing now? Reinstating those names,” the former president whined without mentioning Trump by name.
CNN reported that there has been a “scaling back” of Juneteenth celebrations this year as the era of DEI and racial divisiveness that was whipped up by Biden and his fellow Democrats is now waning.
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