‘Official’ Trump calendar omits a critical detail
A “2024 Official Calendar” published by Donald Trump Jr. comes replete with “Incredible photographs from President Donald J. Trump's time in the White House.”
Trump-y historical facts accompany many of the dates.
You’ll learn, for example, that Trump signed Executive Order 13767 on Jan. 25, 2017 — “beginning construction of the Southern Border Wall.”
You’ll be reminded that Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on Jan. 31, 2017.
But one date on the Trump calendar — available for $14.99 plus $4 shipping — is conspicuously missing any such detail.
January 6.
That calendar square sits blank, according to a sample page reviewed by Raw Story. Trump himself, as his supporters rampaged through the U.S. Capitol on that date in 2021, urged them on Twitter to “remember this day forever.”
Historic by any measure, the date Jan. 6 now lives in national infamy alongside Dec. 7 — the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 — and Sept. 11.
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On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump conducted a campaign-style rally immediately south of the White House and whipped tens of thousands of his supporters into a frenzy. Thousands immediately left the rally and marched on the U.S. Capitol, where they broke through police lines and attempted to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential electoral vote, which now-President Joe Biden won.
Five people died and dozens were injured. More than 1,200 people have been charged with crimes associated with the attack.
And Trump enters the 2024 presidential election year as the hands-down favorite to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination — all while facing 91 felony charges across four criminal cases, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit election fraud, among other alleged crimes related to his effort to overturn the last election.
The calendar’s sanitation of Jan. 6 history is the handiwork of Winning Team Publishing — co-founded by Donald Trump Jr.
Describing itself as “the nation’s premier conservative publishing house,” Winning Team Publishing serves as an unofficial campaign merch store of sorts for the true Trump fan, with offerings that include the coffee-table books Letters to Trump and Our Journey Together, along with Don Jr.’s book Liberal Privilege and an “iconic and limited edition Trump hat.”
Don Jr., the president’s eldest son, is also executive vice president of the Trump Organization, which is in the midst of a New York civil fraud trial that could result in a penalty of up to $250 million.
Trump’s own presidential campaign, meanwhile, also has a new calendar.
For a donation of $47, the Trump campaign is offering supporters its own “official” Trump calendar.
A campaign email peddling the campaign calendar email combines Trump’s marketing genius with his business organization’s dubious accounting practices by promising that “any patriot who contributes $47” will receive the calendar for “free!”
Sample images of the campaign calendar provided within the email show blank date squares, with no commentary for any date. It’s unclear whether the actual calendar provides commentary for holidays, Trump milestones or, for that matter, Jan. 6, 2024 — the third anniversary of the Capitol attack.
Neither the campaign nor the publisher responded to emails from Raw Story seeking an explanation for why the calendar writes Jan. 6 out of the history of the United States’ 45th president.