Presidential Document2025-08131
Loyalty Day and Law Day, U.S.A., 2025
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May 7, 2025
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May 1, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 19411-19412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08131]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 87 / Wednesday, May 7, 2025 /
Presidential Documents
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Proclamation 10928 of May 1, 2025
Loyalty Day and Law Day, U.S.A., 2025
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The rule of law is the capstone of our constitutional
order and the crown jewel of the American way of life.
Beginning with the ratification of the Constitution,
people and nations near and far have looked to the
United States as a guiding light of liberty and
justice. As our Nation commemorates Law Day, U.S.A.,
and Loyalty Day, we reaffirm our loyalty to the
Constitution, and we renew our pledge to preserve and
protect our glorious inheritance of fairness, equality,
and freedom against all threats, foreign and domestic.
For centuries, the world has revered America for its
devotion to the timeless principle of equal justice
under the law. Tragically, in recent years, our
constitutional heritage faced an existential threat
from a political class that abandoned justice in favor
of political retribution. Under the previous
administration, Federal law enforcement agencies
outrageously allowed violent criminals to roam our
streets with impunity while targeting parents,
churchgoers, political opponents, and ordinary
citizens. This weaponization of our Government is a
threat to our sovereignty and is antithetical to our
Nation's most sacred principles, reminiscent of evil
communist regimes.
This erosion of the American justice system ended the
moment I took the oath of office. Under my leadership,
our Federal law enforcement agencies are again being
guided by the cornerstone American principles of
fairness and impartiality--and the constitutional
rights of every American citizen are being swiftly
restored.
As we continue the work to restore justice in our
courtrooms, order on our streets, and respect for our
laws, we solemnly remember the more than 100 million
victims of communism in the 20th century whose lives
were viciously taken, and we stand in solidarity with
the innumerable people across the world currently under
captivity by communist leaders.
First proclaimed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in
1955, Loyalty Day was inaugurated to directly counter
commemorations of May Day--which was frequently
celebrated by communist groups--and to serve as a
beacon of hope to all those still blighted by the
horrors and injustices of communism and tyranny. To
this day, America is a living reminder that the
precepts of our Nation's Founding will always transcend
the evils wrought by communism and dictatorship. As
President Ronald Reagan famously remarked in his 1989
Farewell Address, our Nation stands before the entire
world as a ``tall, proud city built on rocks stronger
than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with
people of all kinds living in harmony and peace.''
For nearly 250 years, the United States had proudly
carried forth a grand tradition of legal and political
thought stretching back to the earliest days of Western
civilization. Today, we acknowledge that our commitment
to the constitutional rule of law is our pride, our
glory, and an enduring source of American greatness. We
recognize that love of country requires loyalty to
country--and that a Nation without the free and
impartial rule of law is not a Nation at all. Above
all, we vow to usher in a new era of justice,
integrity, and honor in our culture, in our courtrooms,
and in our halls of Government.
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1,
2025, as Loyalty Day, and in accordance with Public Law
87-20, as amended, as Law Day, U.S.A. I call on all
Americans to observe this day by reflecting upon the
importance of the rule of law in our Nation and
displaying the flag of the United States in support of
this national observance, as well as by learning more
about the proud history of our Nation. I urge all
Government officials to display the flag of the United
States on all Government buildings and grounds on this
day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand
twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.
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