President Trump defended scheduling his first post-pandemic campaign rally for Juneteenth in Tulsa, Oklahoma, saying “people should think about it as a celebration”
, Trump claimed during an interview with Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner that aired Friday afternoon.,” adding that “in the history of politics... there’s never been any group or any person that’s had rallies like I do.”
While it wasn’t planned, the president said his campaign rally shouldn’t be thought of “as an inconvenience,” saying, “the fact I'm having a rally on that day, you can really think of that very positively.”for black Americans than any president before him, except for Abraham Lincoln, although Trump said ‘it’s questionable,” without clarifying what he meant.
Faulkner told ‘Fox and Friends’ earlier in the day that she wasn’t sure if Trump completely understood theKEY BACKGROUND
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