Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following the arrival of Union troops. The Civil War had ended on April 9, and the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued on January 1, 1863.

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday.

Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president. He even claimed once to have made it “very famous.”