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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Trump trolled for claiming, on Juneteenth, that there are too many ‘non-working holidays’

President Donald Trump has been mocked on social media after complaining on Juneteenth that the United States has too many public holidays.

“Too many non-working holidays in America,” the president griped on Truth Social on Thursday, offering no other comment on the annual holiday set aside to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S., brought about by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 and its enactment at the end of the Civil War in 1865.

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