What did Donald Trump do today?

He complained that Americans take too many days off.

Trump had two items on his work schedule today. One of them was highly unusual, for him: he received an intelligence briefing, something that is available to him every day of his presidency, and which he almost always skips. (He may have skipped this one, too: just because something appeared on his schedule doesn't mean it happened, or that he was paying attention to it.) He also spent a few minutes greeting a new ambassador.

As is his usual habit, the rest of his work day was—to put it generously—unstructured and unaccounted for. Of course, not every moment of a president's day can or should be visible to the general public, but in Trump's case, his "executive time" is mostly watching television, posting to social media, chatting with personal friends on the phone, or napping.

For example, Trump posted to his private microblogging website a dozen times today during business hours. But even after all that, he still found the time and energy to complain this evening that Americans don't work enough.

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 once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! 

What appears to be upsetting Trump is that today is Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. It has been a federal holiday since 2021, when President Biden signed a declaration adding the federal government observance to the 47 states that already celebrated it. 

Trump seems to have forgotten that, in 2020, he falsely took credit for anyone celebrating Juneteenth in the first place, saying that nobody had heard about it before he made it "very famous." He also seems to have forgotten that he campaigned in 2020 on making Juneteenth a national holiday—something he could have done at any point during his presidency.

Trump's rant aside, most Americans did not get the day off from work today. Some banks and most financial markets were closed, and there was no regular mail delivery. Most federal employees either got a vacation day or credit towards a personal day. Ironically, that includes the many thousands of federal workers that Trump haphazardly attempted to purge and who are now in a state of paid limbo while courts try to untangle the resulting mess. Very few private sector businesses closed.

Trump has spent 59 of the 151 days since he returned to office at one of his golf resorts, or 39% of his second term.

Why does this matter?

• "I don't like this holiday celebrating the end of slavery in America" is a hell of a look for the President of the United States.  

• Holidays from work are actually pretty popular, for Americans who have the kinds of jobs where they actually have to show up to them most days. 

• Presidents who nap in glass White Houses shouldn't throw stones.