{"id":14341,"date":"2025-05-08T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whia.us\/?p=14341"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:30:15","slug":"trump-just-declared-may-8-a-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whia.us\/en\/14341\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump just declared May 8 a national holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington &#8211; WH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, Donald Trump took to social media to announce he was establishing two new national holidays, one of which would fall just days later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The holidays, he said, were meant to commemorate the ends of World War I and World War II and would fall on Nov. 11 and May 8.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe won two World Wars, but we never took credit for it \u2014 Everyone else does!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cAll over the World, the Allies are celebrating the Victory we had in World War II. 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