New National Holiday?

[Old Crank]

Following Commie Europe's lead, Trump is making Boxing Day, Dec. 26, a national holiday.

https://fortune.com/2025/12/26/open-closed-december-26-new-holiday-grocery-stores-retailers-restaurants-banks-wall-street/

Only good for certain agencies because it is a declaration.

Release the papers.

[Dave Bowman]

1. How about Epstein Files Day?

[yaesu]

2. Few are even bothering, everything is open, it's a one time deal Congress is the only way to do if officially nt

[onenote]

12. Well, Presidents have done it many times in the past.

See post #11.

I'm guessing you aren't a federal employee so you might not have been aware that this is a common practice.

[mr715]

3. When Trump gets put in a box,

I look forward to our boxing day.

[Celerity]

4. It is mostly only called Boxing Day in the Commonwealth nations or ex Commonwealth nations. In much of Europe, like here

in Sweden, it is called the 2nd day of Christmas (in Swedish it is Annandag Jul) aka St. Stephen's Day (or Feast).

[Old Crank]

5. Here in Munich

It is also the second day of Christmas. Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag

[Mossfern]

6. In the US we do NOT have a State religion

no need for another Christian holiday to nationalize here.

[Igel]

7. Not national. That require's Congressional legislation.

He gave some--but only some--federal employees (and only federal employees, since he could do no more) both Xmas eve and Boxing day off.

A few things should be noted. Giving Xmas eve off is a fairly common practice, if it's not on a weekend. These days, not doing so would strike people as Scrooge-ish and spiteful, mean spirited. (But if it's on Saturday or Sunday, meh--such an order would be redundant, unnecessary, and mockery-worthy.)

Giving Boxing day off isn't that uncommon, but only when it's a special circumstance: The day must fall on a Friday. If they don't get the day off, the workers go to the office on Monday and Tuesday; have Wednesday & Thursday off, and come back for Friday, to nobody's contentment.

Obama signed the same kind of EO in 2014. Bush II in 2008. and 2003. Trump in 2025. Clinton in 1997. Reagan even did it. So Trump's not doing something extreme or novel ... He's following 40 year precedent. Which is incredibly unlike him, I'd say.

Giving some federal employees the day off just makes a fairly unproductive day slightly more unproductive.

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Christmas_on_Thursday

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/25/is-dec-26-federal-holiday-time-off/87886693007/

(For the EOs from Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Reagan ... Google is your friend.)

[edhopper]

8. Is that the day he steals

classified documents?

?q=w_1110,c_fill

[Ms. Toad]

9. Tempest in a teapot.

Happened every year at the University where I worked. Keeping the buildings closed between Christmas and New Year's Day was cheaper than heating the buildings to open, then reopen them for 3 days for relatively non-productive employees.

Yes, it's different for federal employees - but this is getting far more attention than it deserves.

[onenote]

11. Not unusual. Presidents, including Biden, Obama, and Clinton, often have done the same thing in the past.

Must be a slow news day. Its basically a tradition for the president to give federal employees an extra day off on Christmas Eve and/or the day after Christmas, especially when those days fall on a Monday or Friday.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/06/executive-order-closing-executive-departments-and-agencies-federal-gover

President Obama also issued an order closing the federal government on Monday, December 24 in 2012.
President Biden issued an order closing the federal government on Tuesday December 24 2024
President Clinton issued an order closing the federal government on Friday, December 26 1997.
Bush and Reagan also did the same thing.