On November 25, 2025, President Donald Trump proclaimed that November 27, 2025, would be a National Day of Thanksgiving. From the start of the Proclamation:

In 1789, just years after America’s triumph over tyranny in the Revolutionary War, President George Washington established the first National Day of Thanksgiving, declaring ‘the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.’

President Donald Trump, 2025 Thanksgiving Proclamation

President Trump led off the 2025 Thanksgiving Proclamation by quoting from George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation. I published an article on the subject of Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation back on November 25, 2020 (the first year of The New Leaf Journal). President Trump continued to quote from Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation (I should write an article about that one next year), which is the first (so to speak) modern Proclamation. For further Thanksgiving proclamation reading, see my articles on Calvin Coolidge’s 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation and Presidential Proclamations of Thanksgiving in the Philippines.