Donald Trump doesn’t acknowledge Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/19/donald-trump-doesnt-acknowledge-martin-luther-king-jr-day/88252240007/

42 Comments

  1. You expect a racist and tone deaf human to acknowledge MLK Jr Day? You’ll see a hairy lizard before you see that

  2. The orange pig did it on purpose so that the media would say “hey, he didn’t even acknowledge it, is this racist” and then all kinds of oxygen is wasted on that instead of the Epstein files. But he also ignored it because he’s racist.

    25th this fucker now, you spineless republican scum

  3. AdComprehensive7952 on

    He’s already said he getting rid of MLK Jr day and Black History Month in February. He doesn’t want any months honoring non-whites.

  4. Angstrom_Wither on

    The profound, self-destructive ignorance of the American Electorate: they’d rather give up one of our small handful of federal days off work than just admit that MLK was, objectively, a pretty cool guy that got shot for it.

    Statues for Charlie Kirk; not a word for a guy who, if for nothing else, should be celebrated for his ability to maintain boundless progressive optimism in a world that gave him no reason to feel that way.

    And that’s disregarding the fact that MLK is *not* the only civil rights leader deserving of a holiday. He’s just the only one that the government establishing the holiday didn’t so obviously assassinate. It’s sad that I miss when American hypocrisy at least required a slightly close reading of history.

    We’re now living in the Kafkaesque world beholden totally to the whims of people who beat themselves into an actual mental illness because they can’t stand the idea that someone black might have as much as they do.

    White supremacy is a sickness. The conservative worship of unexceptional aristocrats is a sickness. Capitalism is a sickness. They’re comorbid and terminal.

  5. Character_Log2770 on

    Dickhead took away free day to national parks for MLKjr. He made HIS birthday a free day (so boycott that day 6/14).

  6. “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”

    ~ Martin Luther King Jr, Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952.

  7. Guardianpigeon on

    I’ll be honest, that’s fine.

    We all know he’s a racist and it wouldn’t matter anyway. I’d rather him just shut up for once than have to hear him try to paint himself as MLK in some bizarre narcissistic rant.

  8. Earthpig_Johnson on

    Honestly, good. Whatever he would’ve had to say would’ve been hateful garbage anyway.

  9. Um. It’s 5pm est. I’ll bet he posts something more obnoxious than anyone could imagine before midnight.

  10. I would have at least expected a
    “Happy MLK Day to all the terrorist scum Demo-rats who would never acknowledge that no was has done more for the Blacks than me.  There would be no country without me, and I have no day.  But maybe I should have one.  Only the radical Muslim communist party would be against that.  I stopped eight wars.  But soon I will level the blue states that stand against me.”

  11. barnibusvonkreeps on

    Trumps dad stood with the KKK. Trump evicted people from his New York properties for being black. Cohen (his ex lawyer that worked for him for years) said he called poc every derogatory name you could think of. Americans elected a racist pedophile rapist as their president. Don’t expect him to acknowledge fucking anything.

  12. Guess who legitimately received a Nobel Peace Prize when Trump was complaining of bone spurs… MLK Jr.

  13. You know Trump is going to try to make his bday a federal holiday. He is trying to get his ugly ass face on currency. I bet he wants to be on the $100

  14. He doesn’t acknowledge the million of Americans he killed with covid, or the cop his insurrectionists killed, or that ice is harming and killing Americans right now.

    Enough.

    He doesn’t give a fuck and has the support of elected officials and the highest judicial court of our country.

    People, y’all have to stop playing.

  15. MajKonglomerate on

    Where’s the outrage as Black society and history is being erased daily by Trump? Where is the same emotion that screamed after George Floyd was murdered? I’m confused by the current apathy I see.

  16. I just learned that Trump removed MLK day as a fee free day at national parks and replaced it with a free day in his own birthday. The man is sick in the head.

  17. It’s for the best. If’n he did acknowledge MLK day he wouldn’t be able to resist comparing himself to MLK and making it about Trump.

  18. SpreadKindn3ss on

    Donald Trump could be removed (impeached) at any time except Republican Senators and Representatives refuse to allow it!

  19. attackoftheclowns on

    It’s been no secret since before his first term that the Trumps as a whole are white supremacists. Both his administrations have blatantly furthered that agenda as well. Why should we be surprised by this? It’s the entire reason Republicans like him.