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

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.

Earlier in the day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump had no plans to sign a Juneteenth proclamation and indicated it was a normal working day. Trump had issued statements commemorating Juneteenth, before it was a federal holiday, during his first term.

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