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

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  • Source: NBC News
  • 06/20/2025
President Donald Trump did not formally mark Juneteenth on Thursday, complaining instead that there are "too many non-working holidays," while his predecessor, Joe Biden, celebrated the occasion at a Black church in Texas.

The split-screen moment showed starkly different approaches to the 160th anniversary of the moment in Texas when Union troops arrived to enforce the end of slavery there.

"Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed," Trump said Thursday on Truth Social without explicitly mentioning Juneteenth.

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