President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Veterans Day will now also be recognized as “Victory Day for World War I,” honoring the United States’ role in Germany’s surrender on November 11, 1918.

During a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Trump declared, according to the New York Post, “Today is not only Veterans Day, but it’s my proclamation that we are now going to be saying and calling [it] Victory Day for World War I.”

He explained his reasoning by noting, “I saw France was celebrating ‘Victory Day,’ but we didn’t. And I saw France was celebrating another ‘victory day’ for World War II, and other countries were celebrating. They were all celebrated. We’re the one that won the wars.”

Trump had previously mentioned the idea in May on Truth Social, when he suggested May 8 be

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