Trump skips public Juneteenth statement in 2022 as Tulsa controversy still lingers

Story · June 19, 2022

Trump skips public Juneteenth statement in 2022 as Tulsa controversy still lingers

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From Trump’s June 19 Hangover

Juneteenth omission with Tulsa context Confidence 5/5

Correction: Correction: This story should say Trump did not issue a public Juneteenth statement on the channels reviewed, rather than state definitively that he made no public Juneteenth remarks anywhere.

Donald Trump did not issue a public Juneteenth statement on June 19, 2022, on the channels reviewed for this story. That included the public White House archive and related materials checked for this report. The absence stood out because Trump had previously marked Juneteenth while president, including in a June 19, 2020 message. Juneteenth became a federal holiday after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on June 17, 2021.

The 2022 silence also came with older political baggage attached. In 2020, Trump’s campaign first scheduled a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19, then moved it to June 20 after criticism over the date and the city’s history. The White House later published Trump’s Juneteenth message on June 19, 2020, but the rally episode had already made the holiday a recurring flash point around his name.

By 2022, Juneteenth was firmly on the federal calendar as a day marking the end of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. The record reviewed for this story supports a simple fact pattern: Trump did not publicly weigh in on Juneteenth on the channels checked, while his earlier record and the Tulsa controversy gave that silence added political context. It does not prove motive or establish what, if anything, he may have said elsewhere.

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