Black Americans have long celebrated Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 when a Union general rode into Galveston, Texas and told enslaved people there that the war was over and they were free — months after the conflict had ended and more than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

As Americans observe Juneteenth, Trump lamented the cost of "non-working holidays" in a Truth Social post on Thursday, claiming that there "too many" of the holidays.