The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, talks to journalists in the press room of the James Brady press at the White House, on Thursday, June 19, 2025 in Washington
President Donald Trump honored June in each of his first four years as president, just before he became a federal holiday. Hey, once, said he made him “very famous.”
But on holidays in June this year on Thursday, the generally talkative president kept silent about an important day for black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he directs again.
There are no words about your lips, on paper OA through your social media site.
When asked if Trump would commemorate Juneteenedimenta in some way, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told journalists: “I am not tracking her signature in a proclamation today. I know that these are a federal vacation. I want to show that she is to Work Wally Wally until the work Wallle Le’re to work.”
Asked in a follow -up question if Trump could recognize the occasion in another way or another day, Leavitt said: “I only answer that question for you.”
On Wednesday, the leaders of the black community throughout the country, senior officials of the Trump administration and other people with the White House to discuss the improvement of coordination between leaders and federal, state and local partners, according to a senior White House official. The Secretary of Housing, Scott Turner and Lynne Patton, director of minority scope, were among those who attended, said the official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss a private meeting.
The silence of the Republican president was a strong contrast with his previous recognition of the holidays. Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States by commemorating June 19, 1865, when the soldiers of the Union brought the news of freedom to enslave blacks in Galveston, Texas. His freedom occurred more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln released slaves in the Confederation by signing the proclamation of emancipation during the civil war.
Trump’s tranquility on the subject also deviated from the orientation of the White House that Trump planned to sign a proclamation of Juneteenth. Leavitt did not explain the change. Trump did not celebrate public events on Thursday, but shared statements about Iran, the Tiktok application and the president of the Fed, Jerome Powell, in his social media site.
At night, Trump complained on the site about “too many non -work vacations” and said that “$ billions of dollars are costing our country to maintain all these closed businesses.” But most retailers are open in June, while most federal workers have a day off because the government is closed.
He had more to say about Juneteenth in annual statements in his first mandate.
In 2017, Trump invoked the “moving festivities and the emotional joy” that swept the multitude of Galveston when an important general delivered the news that all enslaved people were free.
He told Galveston’s story in each of the next three years. “Together, we honor the unwavering spirit and the innumerable contributions of generations of African Americans to the history of American greatness,” he added in his 2018 statement.
In 2019: “throughout our country, the contributions of African Americans continue to enrich all facets of American life.” In 2020: “June reminds us of both the unimagent injustice of slavery and the incomparable joy that emancipation must have assisted. It is both a memory of a blight in our history and a celebration of the unnecessary capacity of our nation for Trusseppph.”
In 2020, after the suspension, the campaign is handled due to the pandemic of the Coronavirus, Trump chose Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the place to resume his public meetings and scheduled a demonstration for June 19. But Trump’s fierce criticisms.
The black leaders had said that it was offensive for Trump to choose on June 19 and Tulsa for a campaign event, given the importance of Juneteth and Tulsa it was the place where, in 1921, a white mafia looted and burned the city’s Greenwood district
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal days before the demonstration, Trump tried to take a positive turn to the situation by stating that he had made Jneteteent “famous”. He said he changed the date of the rally out of respect for two African -American friends and followers.
“I did something good. I made it famous. I made Jneteeneheth very famous,” Trump said. “An important event is real, it is an important moment. But no one had heard of that. Very few people have heard of it.”
Generations of blacks celebrated in June long before it became a federal holiday in 2021 with the pen of President Joe Biden’s pen.
Later, in 2020, Trump sought to court black voters with a series of campaign promises, including the establishment of Juneteenth as federal holidays.
He lost the elections, and that made it possible for Biden, a Democrat, to sign the legislation that establishes Juneteenth as the most recent federal holiday. Shortly after sworn in his second term in January, Trump signed an executive order that ends the initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the federal government, calling the issue “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.”
Biden issued an annual duration of Juneteenth’s proclamations his four years in office, and observed some of the holidays with great concerts in the South Lawn. The final observance of Biden in 2024 presented performances by Gladys Knight and Patti Labelle. Vice President Kamala Harris danced on stage with Gospel singer Kirk Franklin.
Biden spent this year’s holiday in Galveston, Texas, where he spoke in a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church.
