No other events are listed on Trump’s public calendar, though it’s possible officials could make a last-minute addition. The White House did not respond to questions sent earlier in the week from the Washington Examiner about Trump’s Juneteenth plans. The federal government will observe the holiday, however.

Last year, President Joe Biden went big, hosting a Juneteenth-themed concert on the White House south lawn and delivering remarks, though the concert was held on June 10 rather than June 19. That event was mostly remembered for the blank stare on Biden’s face as the music played and people around him danced.

While Trump’s stance against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives is well known, he has been a longtime supporter of Juneteenth, which marks the day in June 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas, were told of their emancipation following the end of the Civil War. The news arrived more than two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

In 2020, Trump sought to take credit for making Juneteenth “very famous,” telling the Wall Street Journal that “nobody had ever heard of it” before he came along.

That “fame” arose because Trump scheduled a campaign rally for June 19, 2020, which would have been his first since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. After facing blowback for planning a rally on Juneteenth, especially as Black Lives Matter protests were spreading throughout the country, Trump agreed to push the date back to June 20.

“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous,” Trump said of news coverage regarding the controversy. “It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.”

Trump’s evidence for that claim was that he’d asked people around him and none knew of Juneteenth. His White House was generally supportive of the occasion, however, issuing statements in honor of Juneteenth during each year of his first term.

Later in 2020, amidst a fierce reelection campaign, Trump promised to make Juneteenth a national holiday as part of the “Platinum Plan for Black America.” Juneteenth did become a federal holiday in 2021 except under Biden.

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Outside of Washington, concerns have arisen about Trump’s anti-DEI push affecting Juneteenth plans.

Organizers of the Juneteenth Atlanta parade, for example, said the U.S. Army pulled its support for the event, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, losing about $70,000 because of the pullback.

Reports have also circulated that corporate sponsors are withholding support, and some local governments have cut back their funding as well.