"Nobody had ever heard of it"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. And there you have the important difference.

Juneteenth is a huge deal to African Americans (I'm not, but I'd heard of it), but since His Lardship has nothing to do with that community at all it isn't surprising that he wasn't aware of it. Unlike everybody else, though, he had an obligation as president to know about it, especially in light of current events, but he always assumes that if he doesn't know something it must mean nobody else does, either, since it just couldn't be possible for millions of people to know something he doesn't know. I'm glad his mishandling of the Tulsa schedule (if that's what it was, and not an intentional slight) has made more people aware of the significance of that date.