“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
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“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous.
It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.”
Wednesday 17 June 2020 interview in the Oval Office according to 19 June 2020 article https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-talks-juneteenth-john-bolton-economy-in-wsj-interview-11592493771 by Michael Bender of Wall Street Journal, highlighted 21 June 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-crowd-empty-seats by Richard Wolffe of The Guardian
2020, June 2020
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It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody h…" by Donald J. Trump?
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