WHITE HOUSE – “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.” Decades later, in the midst of the bloody Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln implored the Nation to join in unity for “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” In every generation since, this spirit of reverence, trust, and gratitude has preserved our way of life and made America the strongest, greatest, and most resilient Nation the world has ever known.
From the pilgrims who settled our continent and the patriots who won our independence on the battlefield to the pioneers who tamed the west and the warriors who have preserved our freedom in distant lands, the spirit of gratitude and grit embodied by those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving more than 400 years ago have stood at the very heart of what it means to be an American.
This year, God has bestowed abundant blessings all across our land and indeed the entire world. As we give thanks to Him, we continue to advance our Nation through strong leadership and commonsense policy. As a result, the American economy is roaring back, we are making progress on lowering the cost of living, a new era of peace is sweeping around the world, our sovereignty is being swiftly restored, and the American spirit is coming back greater and more powerful than ever before.
As we prepare to celebrate 250 glorious years of American independence, this Thanksgiving, we summon the faith, resolve, and unflinching fortitude of the giants of American history who came before us. We vow to build a future that echoes their sacrifice. Above all, we offer our endless gratitude to Almighty God for His love, grace, and infinite blessings.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 27, 2025, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.”
A Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family, Betsy!
Thank you Betsy always for your posts that seem to bring me back from my visits to fake news Lala Land .
On this Thanksgiving Day, I give thanks for your posts here. I am so very grateful for you Thank you over and over and over.
Bless you, RIG…I can’t find the words to tell you how much I appreciate and love everyone here. What you’ve written means so much me and I thank you most sincerely 💕
Dearest GB, I am so sorry to delay in getting back. Thank you, my friend. I am so thankful for your friendship and our back and forths. A quiet day of reflection which we all badly need. I hope your Thanksgiving was filled to the brim with family, friends, and fine dining…the ingredients of delicious “mental cocktails” to be drunk later at a time of your choosing. Blessings always to you and your family, dear compatriot 😘🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you Ms Betsy.
We had an unusually quiet TG this year. No family or friends. Just us and our 3 cats. Our local family (son and wife) have an elderly in-law in hospice and are visiting every day. Our out of state granddaughter is coming here with her significant other to visit in two weeks.
i cut up a fresh roasted 10 lb. Turkey yesterday and made bags of meat for future meals and then we enjoyed a big turkey dinner – sliced roasted turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and cranberry sauce – here with just us.
After dinner we were both tired and I think I slept for about 11 hours (!!!) and my wife also got an extra long night’s sleep.
Happy Friday After Thanksgiving!
Sound comfy…and just like ours. No family, just us and leftovers, which, if I do say so myself, were delicious 😊 There is nothing better than preparing a meal and having enough to see through several more.
And so, beautiful Christmas music you do not often hear started today through Christmas on our local classical station, WRR 101.1 FM. We are in heaven, GB. You and your bride might like to see if you can access it. Knowing how passionate you are about good music, I can promise you will instantly feel the Spirit of the upcoming Christmas Season. Consider this my gift to you, dear friend. Bless you 😘
Dear Betsy,
I’m not sure if you heard, but the young 20yr old WV Army National Guard Soldier who died today from yesterday’s DC terrorist attack was on patrol that day because she volunteered to pull duty over the Thanksgiving weekend so that other Guardsmen could go home to celebrate with their families.
Tragic and heartbreaking.
Let us all give thanks for those who stand guard for our freedoms, who far too often sacrifice all so we can enjoy the many blessings we enjoy.
I did, Gulag, and have commented on Sundance’s just posted thread. Thanks abundantly given for anyone who puts themselves in harm’s way on our behalf. For love of country and their fellow men and women. God bless them all 🙏🏻💕
Heroes don’t always wear capes, but they often (far too often) wear uniforms.
God bless Sarah Beckstrom, 20 year old member of the National Guard, savagely murdered in a cowardly ambush. God bless her heartbroken family.
And God, please spare Andrew Wolfe, currently fighting for his life. Allow him to spend another Thanksgiving in the arms of his loved ones.
Amen.
I remember all those holidays with family I missed. Eighteen months in S.E. Asia. The meals weren’t too bad, but the family was missed greatly and mom’s turkey was always tops. The ham also!
Dear Pa, I’m sure even now you can taste them 💕. Memories are like that. Bless you always, my friend.
God bless America, and I pray we return this country to the focus on God that our founders envisioned and brilliantly devised.
Amen.
Dear FATHER,
We remember the 1st winter of the Pilgrims in the midst of their suffering:
William Bradford:
“In the time of most distress, there was but six o seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them. In a word, did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endured to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren; a rare example and worthy to be remembered.”fices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endured to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren; a rare example and worthy to be remembered.” **
We Praise YOU, FATHER, for YOUR Faithfulness!
AMEN, AMEN, & AMEN
* Exodus 23:16 (NIV)
** Testimony in The Midst of Suffering
– plymrock.org
Amen!
Great article. Now let’s bring back Christopher Columbus Day.
Read “Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World” by Jeff Fynn-Paul.
Aside from Squanto, Chief Massasoit, played an instrumental role, with the Pilgrims…
https://www.thoughtco.com/profile-chief-massasoit-2477989
3 Generations of my family have been photographed at the statue of The Chief standing on his rock…in the last 63 years, the rest of the park has massively changed. Its not far from the entrance to the Mohawk Trail State Park…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hail-to-the-sunrise-statue
The thought of ‘indigenous people day’ brought me back to the Mohawk Trail!
Happy Thanksgiving and many blessings to all!
Today, I am thankful for everything good that we have. It will take me all day but I will even thank God for the lizards who are burrowed into little sandy holes under the deck for the winter, and all that God has taught me about life on earth. I will also thank Him for my fellow seekers of truth, who reside on this blog. Everyone have a great day full of the blessings of our families.
Thank You Lord, and thank You for my wife of nearly 50 years, who is happily getting a feast ready for us out in the kitchen!
Wishing all the Treepers a very happy Thanksgiving…
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be–That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks–for His kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation —for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed– for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted —for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us…… and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions–…to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed –to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
From today’s Coffee&Covid.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-great-pilgrim-conspiracy-thursday?publication_id=463409&post_id=180108423&isFreemail=true&r=209fvb&triedRedirect=true
Grateful. Grateful for Family, Country and Freedom! Happy Thanksgiving! We love the prepping, the kitchen smells and everything made from scratch. Hmmmmm…. Yummmm… Prayers of thanks!
To Sundance and team, and to all you Treepers, everywhere:…
…- From across the pond, this Son of Plymouth* (aka: ‘Guz’) wishes all of you a Blessed Thanksgiving in the warm and loving company of your Families and loved-ones.
(*: To this day I still know the Barbican like the back of my hand, having trod the Mayflower steps many times as an infant and youth.)
💕 to all Treepers
Also, a Blessed Thanksgiving, and a belated Happy Birthday to the United States Marine Corps and to all United States Marines, serving and retired, and to all other US servicemembers, serving and retired:…
…- Today, three quarters of a century ago, commenced one of the bloodiest and most fraught battles, in the most appalling and harshest of conditions, of the entire Korean war.
This battle would see the hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned combatants of the UN forces, there present, cheat death and certain annihilation by effecting a breakout and orderly retreat from near-complete encirclement by three entire Corps of the PLA 9th Army, through blizzards, snowdrifts and across a frozen reservoir, and all the while through a constant storm of lead and fire.
In so doing, through a nigh-on unparalleled display of fortitude, sheer determination, guts and grit, and incredible valour and heroism, under fire, in the face of seemingly impossible odds and conditions, these men of supreme mettle carved their names into the pages of history, becoming known as ‘The Chosin Few’.
Dad has a Purple Heart from the Korean War. They took, and lost, the same mountain over and over to the Chinese.
President Trump gives a perfect example of living your best life and looking on the bright side in this proclamation.
they just said he was compromised and there’s a coup brewing
Who are “they”? And what do they mean by compromised? Sounds like more trash talk from the seditious 6 who recommend disobeying orders.
Don’t let the drumstick in your throat.
I wishbone voyage to all on this day of Thanksgiving.
Amen, Nessie…
…- May we always aim thigh and live our breast lives.
LOL
Here are some contenders for the “First Thanksgiving”:
May, 1541: Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and 1,500 men celebrated at the Palo Dur Canyon — located in the modern-day Texas Panhandle — after their expedition from Mexico City in search of gold. In 1959 the Texas Society Daughters of the American Colonists commemorated the event as the “first Thanksgiving.”
June 30, 1564: via Keys History:
“French Huguenot Admiral Gaspard de Coligny sent Admiral Jean Ribault to North America. He landed at the mouth of a river they named “Mai” (the St. Johns River of Jacksonville) because they landed in the month of May. Ribault’s arrival also provided the first Protestant prayer offered up on North America. The Indians were friendly to Ribault. He then sailed north and established a small settlement near present-day Port Royal, South Carolina and returned to France. At this time, all of the southeastern United States was called Florida.
In 1564 one of Ribault’s officers, Rene Laudonniere, was sent back from France with 300 men and four women. They built Fort Caroline six miles up the St. Johns River. Again, the Indians welcomed the returning Frenchmen who survived with the help of Timucuan Indian’s grain, fruit and wild game. With this apparent success, Laudonniere called for music and a feast to celebrate their good fortune on June 30, 1564. Of this celebration he wrote: “We sang a psalm of Thanksgiving unto God, beseeching Him that it would please His Grace to continue His accustomed goodness toward us.” This was 57 years before the better known Thanksgiving celebration at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Laudonniere retrieved two Spanish sailors thought to have been ship wrecked with Fontaneda from the Indians in 1564.”…….
Oysters on a Florida beach sounds pretty good right about now. But wherever you are, have a great Thanksgiving with the people you love and/or tolerate.
And pass me a giant clam, please.
Psalm 100:4-5
Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him. For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever.
Amen and Amen!
Coronado Expedition in 1541 | TX Almanac:
“Artifacts and recent historical research now point to Blanco Canyon in south Floyd County as the probable site of an encampment of the Coronado Expedition in the late spring of 1541.
Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado made his 1540–1542 journey through the High Plains of Texas in search of the rumored seven golden cities.
This evidence supports the theory that this is one of the two Texas campsites of Coronado’s expedition, an enterprise that included 1,200 Indian allies and 300 Spanish soldiers.
Also on the expedition were Franciscan friars, including Fray Juan de Padilla, who celebrated the Mass of Ascension Day 1541 in the canyon for those assembled there.
Fray Padilla, a native of Andalusia, chose to remain in the Southwest after Coronado abandoned his search, and the Franciscan, who would later be killed there, is called the first Christian martyr in what is now the United States.” …….
Happy Thanksgiving!
Even then, a classy tie. And no doubt it was long enough. ☺
I saw that yesterday. I love those baby videos.
Spending Thanksgiving Day with the Jehovah’s Witnesses part of my family so nothing special going on.
The cornbread and beans smelled delicious however I cannot stand them so I ate a lot of ice cream 😉
“Dear FATHER,
We remember the 1st winter of the Pilgrims in the midst of their suffering:
William Bradford:
“In the time of most distress, there was but six o seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them. In a word, did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endured to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren; a rare example and worthy to be remembered.”fices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endured to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren; a rare example and worthy to be remembered.” **
We Praise YOU, FATHER, for YOUR Faithfulness!
AMEN, AMEN, & AMEN”
Happy thanksgiving!
Thankful for President Trump, his staff and all they’ve accomplished this year.
Thankful for this website and the wisdom of Sundance.
Thank you for not cancelling me and for having a place to voice my opinion.
“President Abraham Lincoln implored the Nation to join in unity for “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.””
For more on Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, See Franklin Steiner’s, ‘The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents’, p. 138 (Originally published in 1936)
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.🦃
The Power of Gratitude & Thanksgiving | Pastor Allen Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/live/kjYJ7Z1GABk?si=WazAiDnsfbfh–Gv
Amen!