President Donald Trump announced late Friday he is rescheduling his June 19 campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the following night “out of respect” for Juneteenth, the holiday which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
In a series of late-night tweets, Trump said in response to feedback from many of his “African American friends and supporters” he is moving the rally to Saturday, June 20 in “observance of this important occasion and all that it represents.”
We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal. Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2020
The Tulsa campaign rally will be Trump’s first in more than three months after the novel coronavirus pandemic limited public gatherings to contain the spread of the deadly virus.
In addition to the scheduling conflict with the Juneteenth observance, the choice of location for the rally sparked controversy because Tulsa was the site nearly one century ago of one of the most colossal instances of racial violence in the nation’s history.
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