“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.”
President Trump credited himself on Wednesday for bringing attention to the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States after he first scheduled a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., that day, then moved it to a day later after objections from African-Americans.
As criticism grew over the decision to hold the rally on June 19 in a city where a white mob attacked and murdered hundreds of Black residents in 1921, Trump told the Journal that he asked people at the White House if they had ever heard about Juneteenth. None had. “Oh really? We put out a statement? The Trump White House put out a statement?” Trump said, according to the paper. “OK, OK. Good.”...of respect for this Holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents. I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th, in order to honor their requests...In an interview last week with Fox News host Harris Faulkner, Trump was asked whether he had initially chosen June 19 to send a message of some sort.
The controversy over Trump’s rally comes as protests continue over police killings of Black civilians and a national debate over Civil War monuments.
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