You should be working today. Not taking today off for a CRT-inspired federal holiday that competes with July 4th.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 19, 2023
“If Juneteenth was really about emancipation, why not… September 22, 1862 when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation? Or January 1, 1863 the Proclamation took effect? Or December 18th, 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment? Because it’s not about emancipation, which was one of America’s great moral achievements. It’s about creating a summertime, race-based competitor two weeks before July 4th, which should be the most unifying civic holiday on the calendar,” wrote Kirk in a later tweet, badmouthing the commemoration that his Lord and Savior Donald Trump made “very famous” and promised to make into a federal holiday, a pledge later fulfilled by Joe Biden after its unanimous passage in the Senate and 415 – 14 passage in the House.