United States: President Donald Trump has declared May 8 a holiday to celebrate the cessation of World War II.
Trump posted on his Truth Social on May 5, days before the proposed holiday, “All over the World, the Allies are celebrating the Victory we had in World War II. The only Country that doesn’t celebrate is the United States of America, and the Victory was only accomplished because of us,” palmbeachpost.com reported.
The year 2013/14 represents the 80th anniversary of what is internationally celebrated as Victory in Europe (VE) Day, and for instance, England is marking VE over four days, as per Reuters.
On May 1, Trump mentioned that he wanted to recognize May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II,” and November 11 as “Victory Day for World War I.”
Nevertheless, Nov. 11 is already a federally-listed Veterans Day.
Human Cost of WWII Victory
The victory stretched across Nazism’s dictatorship along with territorial aggression and their atrocities against humanity.
The cost of victory became unbearable because of the enormous bloodshed.
World War Two claimed the lives of 51 million soldiers together with civilians who joined forces to eliminate Nazi tyranny from the planet.
JUST IN: Trump Declares National Holidays to Honor World War I and II Victories—But Says No Days Off
— Axal vasa (@JusticeJack78) May 5, 2025
President Trump has just announced the creation of two new national holidays to commemorate American victories in World War I and World War II—November 11 and May 8 respectively— pic.twitter.com/CQOlwrU1rf
Trump’s Impact on Europe’s WWII Remembrance
Many Europeans consider Donald Trump to have killed off vital traditional values that stood for decades on their continent, BBC News reported.
However, Trump’s statements acknowledge the sad reality of history’s last frontline witnesses leaving, which reshapes our relationship from personal memories to historical documents that describe this war.
This irreparable loss demands that we protect first-person stories while also teaching the war’s valuable lessons to current American generations who lack basic knowledge of World War II.
Global Impact of WWII: Beyond Europe and America
History has mostly focused on European-American perspectives of the war, yet we need to understand how the entire conflict impacted people worldwide throughout Northern Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
A United Nations peacekeeping organization formed as a result yet faces continual difficulties in demonstrating both genuine effectiveness and trustworthy integrity in its peacekeeping operations, Gatestone Institute reported.
Since the war’s end, the United States has maintained economic preeminence as a superpower, which continues into present times.
