More updates from the new Republican populism
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If you want to know what goes too far even for the Trumpist cult, this right here is it: An heir to an enormous fortune who lives on a golf course and has never done an honest day’s work in his life suggesting that his base doesn’t want a paid day off. (The reaction to this post even on Truth Social was overwhelmingly negative).
Not even the practically overt racism of all this was enough psychic compensation for white people who are perhaps beginning to suspect at least intermittently that Trump isn’t going to bring back the imaginary Golden Age at the core of every fascist fever dream:
Juneteenth, the holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States, has been celebrated at the White House each June 19 since it was enshrined into law four years ago. But on Thursday, it went unmarked by the president — except for a post on social media in which he said he would get rid of some “non-working holidays.”
“Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year,” Mr. Trump said in mangled syntax, not mentioning Juneteenth by name nor acknowledging that Thursday was a federal holiday. “It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, indicated to reporters earlier in the day that she was not aware of any plans by Mr. Trump to sign a holiday proclamation. In the past week alone, he’d issued proclamations commemorating Father’s Day, Flag Day and National Flag Week, and the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill — none of which are among the 11 annual federal holidays.
In response to a reporter’s question about Juneteenth, Ms. Leavitt acknowledged that Thursday was “a federal holiday,” but noted that White House staff had shown up to work during a briefing that focused primarily on the matter of whether Mr. Trump would order strikes on Iran.
Speaking of which, Peter Beinart points out that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies are failing at the first rule of leading the political opposition, which is to oppose — in this case, direct US military action against Iran, which is both wildly unpopular among both Democrats and Republicans, and, to use Scott’s old-fashioned term from last night, illegal.
. . . I had of course forgotten that in the very distant past (four and a half years ago) Trump had campaigned to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.