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Trump Makes Jimmy Kimmel Melt Down With ‘Juneteenth’ Comments
Nighttime talk shows are swimming in comedy gold thanks to liberals’ visceral hatred of President Donald Trump, but this time, he got the last laugh.
Trump’s social media post acknowledging Juneteenth, the federal holiday passed by Republicans and into law by former President Joe Biden in 2021, was not the full-throated refrain that his haters hoped for, including late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who melted down after he accused the president of not doing enough to honor the day commemorating the end of slavery.
Kimmel’s June 19 show opened with his usual monologue, but it became more timely when the ABC host accused Trump of hiding his support for Juneteenth to pacify his “racist” supporters.
“If Trump were to acknowledge Juneteenth, he would risk upsetting his not-at-all racist and ‘how-dare-you-say-we-are’ base,” said Kimmel as he looked to his studio audience for approval.
“They’re like, ‘We’re the ones who stopped enslaving. They should have a holiday for us,’” he continued.
The end of slavery came about thanks to Abraham Lincoln and fellow Republican lawmakers who struck a deal with confederate-sympathizing statesmen following the Civil War that resulted in freedom for millions of black former slaves. Southern Democrats at the time were vocal proponents of slavery, arguing that the southern economy would collapse without free labor.
Kimmel then showed on screen President Trump’s Juneteenth post, which read, “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 having a holiday for every working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“It seems like a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery is one we should all be for,” Kimmel observed.
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Predictably, far-left social media users felt similarly to Kimmel and called Trump a hypocrite for signing the law and playing golf, paying no mind to the staggering number of vacations taken by former President Joe Biden.
One Trump supporter clapped back, however, reminding the mob about Biden’s infamous “you ain’t black” comment chiding black Americans who didn’t vote for him.
As Michael Schwartz at the Western Journal notes, the end of slavery is more complicated than the simple declaration made by Juneteenth:
On June 19, 1865 — more than two months after the end of the Civil War and of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination — Union forces brought news of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to the slaves of Texas. It was, no doubt, a special day for those to whom the Proclamation and the war brought freedom.
Juneteenth, however, does not mark the date of the Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863) or the ratification of the 13th Amendment (Dec. 6, 1865), which formally ended slavery throughout the United States.
What about March 13, 1863, the date the famous all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was formed? Or Apr. 12, 1864, the date that troops under Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest slaughtered hundreds of surrendering black Union troops at Fort Pillow?
Clearly, Kimmel hasn’t gotten over the stinging animosity he showed toward Trump the day after the election, when tears filled his eyes and the comedian implored Americans to look inward, wondering how they could have felt so different from him and his fellow Hollywood glitterati.
As Kim Kardashian recently found out, it’s curious that so many of the rich and famous want illegal immigration, another form of servitude, to continue, given that they are fond of hiring them.
