If he can’t get his story straight about something as simple as a holiday, how can he be trusted to take control of the Middle East situation?

“He,” of course, is Donald Trump. And never mind his whiplash-inducing u-turns on the plethora of natural and manmade disasters currently overtaking the planet . . . those are enough to drive anyone mad. But how can we expect any individual to take charge of our futures when he can’t even remember that, during his first term in 2020, he took credit for making Juneteenth “very famous,” when “nobody had ever heard of it.” Or that one of his campaign pledges that year was to make it a federal holiday . . . but that it was actually done by President Joe Biden in 2021.

(But of course, Trump still doesn’t recall that he lost that election, so why would he remember such a little detail?)

Now, however, he wants to eliminate the holiday he once promoted — one that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States — on the specious grounds that we have too many paid holidays as it is . . . not because it recognizes diversity, which we all know is his real reason.

So the man who spends virtually every weekend on the golf course — costing the taxpayers millions of dollars for travel, salaries of his Secret Service entourage, etc. — has this to say to the people who put him into the White House:

“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up havinng a holiday for every once [sic] working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” [Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN, June 19, 2025.]

Right. We Americans — who already have the second-lowest number of paid vacation days and the fewest paid leave days of any nation in the world [Business Insider, December 6, 2022] — want nothing more than to work ourselves to death for the glorification of the Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

I’ll sign up for that . . . just as soon as he sells his golf clubs.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
6/20/25