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.

President Trump appeared to mark Juneteenth on Thursday with a Truth Social post arguing the United States has "too many non-working holidays." "It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed.