President Donald Trump did not formally mark Juneteenth on Thursday, complaining instead that there are "too many non-working holidays," while his predecessor, Joe Biden, celebrated the occasion at a

But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again. No words about it from his lips,

President Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, other than saying there were too many like it. Lesser occasions routinely garner official proclamations.