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President Donald Trump did not officially marked Juneteenth on Thursday, complaining rather than there is “too many non -working vacation”, while his predecessor, Joe Biden, celebrated the opportunity in a black church in Texas.
The time with a shared screen has shown very different approaches to the 160th anniversary of the moment in Texas when the Union troops arrived to enforce the end of slavery.
“Too much vacation without work in America. It costs our country billions of dollars to keep all these closed companies”, Trump said Thursday on Truth Social Without explicitly mentioning Juneteenth.
Earlier in the day, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Trump did not intend to sign a proclamation of the junction and said it was a normal day of work. Trump had expressed Declarations commemorating the juneteenthBefore a federal holiday, during his first mandate.
“We are working 24/7 right now,” she said.
A few hours later, Biden obtained a warm welcome from the Reedy Chapel AME church in Galveston, Texas, where he criticized those who, according to him, sought to “erase our history”.
In 2021, Biden Signed legislation This has established Junteh as a federal festival in the aftermath of the manifestations of racial justice launched by the death of George Floyd.
“Some say … that does not deserve to be a federal holiday,” said Biden. “They don’t want to remember.”
He also criticized the Trump administration’s decision to rename the military bases that have been modified under Biden to remove the references to the Confederates. Trump said he wanted to restore the original names.
