President Donald Trump did not formally mark Juneteenth on Thursday, complaining instead that there are “too many non-working holidays,” while his predecessor, Joe Biden, celebrated the occasion at a Black church in Texas.

The split-screen moment showed starkly different approaches to the 160th anniversary of the moment in Texas when Union troops arrived to enforce the end of slavery there.

“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed,” Trump said Thursday on Truth Social without explicitly mentioning Juneteenth.

Earlier in the day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump had no plans to sign a Juneteenth proclamation and indicated it was a normal working day. Trump had issued statements commemorating Juneteenth, before it was a federal holiday, during his first term.

“We’re working 24/7 right now,” she said.

The announcement from Leavitt came a day after a White House official told NBC News that Trump planned to sign a proclamation honoring the federal holiday. A person familiar with the administration’s thinking said Friday that the decision to scrap the signing was made by senior White House staff, who determined that the Israel-Iran conflict was “consuming the attention of the President and other senior administration officials.”

Senior staff at the White House, joined by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, hosted a roundtable discussion Wednesday with Black community leaders, a White House official told NBC News.

The White House later downplayed the need for a Juneteenth proclamation, arguing that Black Americans care much more about Trump’s policies than “performative messages.”

“Black Americans lined up to support President Trump in historic fashion because of policies that transcend race and align with common sense,” said White House spokesperson Harrison Fields. “The Black community is more interested in results than in performative messages that do more to check a box than anything else.”

Biden got a warm welcome Thursday evening at Reedy Chapel AME Church in Galveston, Texas, where he criticized those who he said seek to “erase our history.”

In 2021, Biden signed legislation that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday in the aftermath of the racial justice protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.

“Some say … it doesn’t deserve to be a federal holiday,” Biden said. “They don’t want to remember.”

He also criticized the Trump administration’s move to rename military bases that were changed under Biden to remove references to Confederates. Trump has said he wants to restore the original names.