Moving the rally from Juneteenth is a drop in the ocean given Trump's inaction as civil unrest continues to roil the country.
announced Friday that his upcoming MAGA rally will now take place on June 20, a day later than previously scheduled. That’s because the campaign event in Tulsa, Oklahoma—the site of one of the worst acts of racial violence against black Americans in history—was initially set to occur on Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
“Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents,” the presidentin a Twitter announcement late Friday night. Trump said he had “therefore decided to move [the] rally … in order to honor their requests” despite the campaign event being “a big deal,” something the president took care to point out.
Team Trump’s initial decision to hold its first mega-rally in months—ticket requests for which Trump claimed on Friday to be “in excess of 200,000”—on Juneteenth seemed almost designed to exacerbate both crises the nation is facing, as my colleaguethis week. Some states are seeing spikes in COVID-19 cases after a holiday weekend.
The president continued his show of empathy laced with his trademark brand of egotism in an interview on Friday, telling Fox News hostto think of the Juneteenth rally—which had not yet been postponed at the time of the chat—as “a celebration” rather than “an inconvenience,” remarking, “it wasn’t done for that reason, but it’s an interesting date.” Trump alsohe considers himself to have “done more for the black community than any other president.
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