Trump trolled after claiming there are too many holidays within the US on Juneteenth | EUROtoday

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President Donald Trump has been mocked on social media after complaining on Juneteenth that the United States has too many public holidays.

“Too many non-working holidays in America,” the president griped on Truth Social on Thursday, providing no different touch upon the annual vacation put aside to commemorate the tip of slavery within the U.S., caused by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 and its enactment on the finish of the Civil War in 1865.

“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!”

President Donald Trump behind his desk in the Oval Office this week

President Donald Trump behind his desk within the Oval Office this week (Reuters)

The White House didn’t maintain an occasion to honor Juneteenth this yr, an event enshrined in American legislation 4 a long time in the past, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stressing that West Wing staffers have been at work as common.

“I’m not tracking his signature on a proclamation today,” she mentioned of the president. “I know this is a federal holiday, I want to thank all of you for showing up to work. We are certainly here. We’re working 24/7 right now.”

Rather than mark the day, Trump in any other case posted on his platform about TikTok, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and eliminating taxes on ideas.

His predecessor, Joe Biden, in contrast, spent the day celebrating at a Black church in Galveston, Texas.

But the president’s frustration about Juneteenth invited derision in response, with California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell requested on X: “Why didn’t he tweet this on Columbus Day?”

Journalist Sam Stein additionally mocked Trump by noting that he “ran on making Juneteenth a national holiday in 2020” in an try to broaden his enchantment to Black voters.

Pundit Harry Sisson commented: “Not only is he trying to make you work MORE, but also he’s taking an apparent dig at Juneteenth.

“This is coming from the same guy who golfs every weekend. Pathetic.”

People dance during a Juneteenth celebration at the African Burying Ground Memorial Park in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Thursday June 19 2025

People dance throughout a Juneteenth celebration on the African Burying Ground Memorial Park in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Thursday June 19 2025 (AP)

Another person cheerily wished the president a “Happy Juneteenth Day!!!!” with a selfie through which he occurred to be sporting an identical “F*** Trump” baseball cap and T-shirt.

Despite his annoyance in regards to the abundance of public holidays, Trump himself introduced two extra simply final month, commemorating the signing of the armistice that introduced an finish to the First World War on November 11, 1918, and the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945.

However, he was cautious to stipulate: “We will not be closing the country for these two very important holidays because we already have too many holidays in America.”

The gesture was criticized as a result of November 11 is already noticed as Veterans’ Day and since American involvement within the Second World War really continued till August 15, 1945, when Imperial Japan likewise surrendered, lastly bringing a near the battle within the Pacific.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-juneteenth-columbus-day-holidays-b2773799.html