Trump told The Wall Street Journal that "nobody had ever heard of" the holiday before he brought it up. "I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous," Trump said in reference to the rally date in an interview published Thursday. That event took place more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Trump's rally was scheduled to take place on the holiday in Tulsa, Oklahoma: the Juneteenth is the oldest regular US celebration of the end of slavery. That event took place more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

Source: CNN June 18, 2020 19:27 UTC