Racist President Donald Trump didnt observe Juneteenth in any capacity this year. Instead, he made a single post complaining about there being too many non-working holidays in the United States.Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed, Trump wrote on a June 19 social media post. The workers dont want it either! Soon well end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Related Let this be the month we rededicate ourselves to Black queer and trans liberation Before rainbow capitalism, before viral visibility, and before anyone declared liberation, there were Black queer and trans people fighting to be free. Numerous Black social media commenters criticized Trumps post, according to The Root. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Trump waits until a black-themed holiday to complain about holidays. Thats so on-brand,wrote @JohnnyLoveless via X. Id be disappointed at this point if he didnt take advantage of the opportunity to send a racial dogwhistle.Racist Donald Trump is complaining about the cost of the Juneteenth holiday. After removing the Martin Luther King bust and Barack Obamas portrait at the White House,@whittler_e said.He hates black people and just cannot keep himself from insulting us.Another commenter noted that Thanksgiving and Columbus Day are also unpaid federal holidays, and both have been criticized for having racist and anti-Indigenous origins.Trump has a long history of racism, including being a lead proponent of the birther movement that questioned the U.S. citizenship of Americas first Black President Barack Obama, his repeated public persecution of the Central Park Five (a group of five mostly Black teens who were exonerated in 2002 after being wrongly convicted of rape in 1989), his travel bans on majority non-white and Muslim countries, his claims that legal Haitian immigrants were eating housepets, his pledge to commit mass deportations of Central and South Americans, the elevation of Nazi-sympathizer Elon Musk to his administration, and his presidential crusade to end all federal support for initiatives that champion racial diversity, equity, and inclusivity.As LGBTQ Nation writer Juwan Holmes explained in 2021: Juneteenth marks when the Emancipation Proclamation was finally announced and read in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865 the true end of slavery in the United States, which was more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the declaration. It took two years for Union soldiers to bring the news that far into the Confederate South, let alone actually enforce it.In 1866, the next year, former slaves gathered to read the Emancipation Proclamation in public. And so, Juneteenth was born.Juneteenth became a federal holiday onJune 17, 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.This made it the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in 1983Trump recognized Juneteenth during his first presidential term, The Root noted.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.