Trump’s proclamation for March 25: “We honor the wisdom and determination of the Greek people”

The White House issued its yearly proclamation for Greek Independence Day, signed by Donald Trump, highlighting the parallels betwixt the Greek and American Revolutions.

In the modular wording, the U.S. president proclaims “March 25, 2026, arsenic Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy” and calls upon the radical of the United States “to observe this time with due ceremonies and activities.”

US President Donald J. Trump’s Proclamation

This Greek Independence Day, we commemorate the contented and resolve of the Greek people, who formed disconnected the chains of despotism, renewed the committedness of state archetypal calved connected their past soil, and reasserted their rightful spot arsenic the cradle of Western civilization.

Long earlier our Nation took up the torch of liberty 250 years ago, the occurrence of self-government archetypal dawned in Greece, wherever citizens were granted a nonstop dependable successful the destiny of their country.  This tone sustained the Greek radical done centuries of concern and hardship astatine the hands of overseas rulers.  With rugged bravery, pridefulness successful their past, and assurance successful their future, they launched a gyration connected March 25, 1821, embarking connected a noble crusade that shattered the chains of authoritarian regularisation that had bound them for centuries.  For astir a decade, their state was successfully forged successful the fiery vigor of struggle and sacrifice, sustained by their religion successful the timeless information that each federation is endowed with the close to self-determination.

Like Greece, the United States was calved successful the contented of enactment self-rule and is sustained by citizens who judge that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are our ineffable birthright.  The histories of our 2 nations attest that an oppressed radical volition endure immoderate proceedings to found a genuinely conscionable government, support their inheritance astatine each costs, and unafraid the blessings of liberty for themselves and their children.

Today, the Greek American assemblage enriches the communicative of our Nation done their enterprise, religion successful God, and unyielding passionateness for the principles that person defined the American mode of beingness since 1776.  Greece stands enarthrosis to enarthrosis with the United States successful our values, our committedness to the defence of our Western ideals, and our devotion to the origin of bid passim the world.

As America marks 250 glorious years of independence, we gully inspiration from the illustration of the Greek radical who refused to surrender their sovereignty and preserved the occurrence of self-government.  Together, our 2 nations are allies successful freedom, agreed by history, tested by struggle, and assured in the committedness of a radiant future.  On this 205th Greek Independence Day, we observe that enduring spirit, which first stirred successful Athens and inspired our Founding Fathers successful Philadelphia, whose genius and devotion to the origin of quality state volition ne'er cease to animate radical connected some sides of the Atlantic.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtuousness of the authorization vested successful maine by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, bash hereby proclaim March 25, 2026, arsenic Greek Independence Day:  A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.  I telephone upon the radical of the United States to observe this time with due ceremonies and activities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I person hereunto acceptable my manus this twenty-fourth time of March, successful the twelvemonth of our Lord two thousand twenty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.