On Thursday evening, the night of Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic "old man yells at cloud" complaint: Americans get too much time off work. "Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed," he wrote. "It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" For good measure, he also opined that workers themselves agreed with him on this.
The president is wrong. We need more holidays, not fewer, and we need more time off in general.
That Trump is complaining at all is odd given that during the 2020 campaign, he promised to make Juneteenth a holiday. And he never seems to have a problem taking time off work to play golf at taxpayers' expense. He has now decided — on a day that celebrates the end of slavery no less — that Americans need to work harder.
True, Trump did not mention Juneteenth in his online rant, but the timing could not be clearer.
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