Critics called the event an instance of 'overt racism.'
the event a “dog whistle for white supremacists,” President Donald Trump on Friday said he would move up the date of his first post-COVID-19 campaign rally so it wouldn’t coincide with Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S.... [+]
officials in the State Dining Room of the White House, June, 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. From L-R is Attorney General William Barr, Daniel J, Cameron Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Trump.In a tweet late Friday night, Trump said he decided to change the date “out of respect for this Holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents.”
The rally, which will be his first since he stopped campaigning during the coronavirus pandemic, will now be held in Tulsa on June 20. Trump faced criticism for the original date because the rally would be held on Juneteenth in Tulsa, the site of a massacre where a white mob destroyed the prospering"
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