Twitter, X, TikTok React to Trump’s Juneteenth Reality Social Submit

Now that the Juneteenth barbecues are over and Black Individuals are carried out with their celebrating, we now have time to answer President Donald Trump’s wild — but fully predictable — response to the vacation. And boy, do we now have the smoke.

Trump took to Reality Social late Thursday (June 19) to declare the nation has “Too many non-working holidays” that is “costing our Nation $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to maintain all of those companies closed.” Though he did not title any particular holidays that must be minimize, his 7 p.m. put up on Juneteenth actually speaks for itself.

After all, many Black Individuals predicted the vacation celebrating the top of slavery could be subsequent on the Trump chopping block. “Trump waits till a black-themed vacation to complain about holidays. That is so on-brand,” @JohnnyLoveless wrote on X. “I might be disenchanted at this level if he did not make the most of the chance to ship a racial dogwhistle.”

It is vital to notice Trump as soon as championed Juneteenth — even celebrating the vacation yearly of his first time period. And this was earlier than it turned a federal vacation in 2021 following the homicide of George Floyd.

However now, it appears Trump has modified his tune.

“Racist Donald Trump is complaining about the price of the Juneteenth vacation. After eradicating the Martin Luther King bust and Barack Obama’s portrait on the White Home,” @whittler_e stated. “He hates black folks and simply can not preserve himself from insulting us.”

@Edudarl referred to as the president, “The Divider-in-chief” earlier than including he is “Simply pure evil.” However whereas many people had been pissed about Trump’s put up, others had a good higher ideas for him to bear in mind.

“Take away Columbus Day too than TF!” @ATrueMenace1 tweeted. One other consumer had extra holidays so as to add to Trump’s vacation hit checklist. “Christmas Day – We don’t do spiritual crap, Thanksgiving – AKA: White folks spreading ailments day,
Columbus Day – Ugly bro is Spanish,” @LibTownMayor stated.

Should you keep in mind, again in April, Trump introduced he is “reinstating Columbus Day underneath the identical guidelines, dates, and areas, because it has had for all the many a long time earlier than!” on Reality Social. By no means thoughts the truth that Columbus Day remains to be a federal vacation, however in current instances, folks additionally started celebrating Indigenous Individuals’s Day to honor the genocide attributable to Spanish conquistador Christopher Columbus quest to the Americas.

On TikTok, @blackbeltbabe pointed out the hypocrisy from Trump. “So the person that resulted within the homicide of indigenous people [Columbus] needs to be celebrated as a federal vacation and would not waste money and time however the vacation that celebrities the ending of slavery and the beginning of reconstruction is a waste of time?”

Black Individuals on-line additionally referred to as out Black voters for Trump. “This is the reason I’ll by no means perceive why a number of blacks brazenly assist or voted for him ain’t no f*****g means,” @_dre_day tweeted.

However simply because the president is making some spooky threats does not imply Black people are celebrating any much less. “I like to see Trump and all of the haters salty about Juneteenth,” congressional candidate for Houston’s 18th District Isaiah Martin stated.

One other consumer, @holybullies, added, “Black people dont care what Donald Trump or his raggedy Administration thinks about Juneteenth. We nonetheless celebrating.”