President Donald Trump has so far been quiet about the Juneteenth holiday on a day he previously praised.

On this year’s holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery.

He didn’t post about it on social media or put any official events on his calendar.

The Associated Press reported Thursday afternoon that when asked whether Trump would commemorate Juneteenth in any way, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “I’m not tracking his signature on a proclamation today. I know this is a federal holiday. I want to thank all of you for showing up to work. We are certainly here. We’re working 24/7 right now.”

Asked in a follow-up question whether Trump might recognize the occasion another way or on another day, Leavitt said, “I just answered that question for you.”

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Trump’s silence was a sharp contrast from his prior acknowledgement of the holiday.

In 2020, he said of his decision to hold a campaign rally on the date, “I did something good. I made it famous. I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, it’s an important time. But nobody had heard of it. Very few people have heard of it.”

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States by commemorating June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas. Their freedom came two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the the Emancipation Proclamation.

Generations of Black Americans, particularly in Texas, celebrated Juneteenth long before it became a federal holiday in 2021.

Trump held no public events Thursday. He shared statements about Iran and TikTok on his social media site.

In 2017, Trump invoked the “soulful festivities and emotional rejoicing” that swept through a Galveston, Texass crowd when a major general delivered the news that all enslaved people were free.

He told the Galveston story and said something similar on the holiday each of the next three years.

Former President Joe Biden spent this year’s holiday in Galveston, where he was set to speak at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.