Turkey, whose leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forged close ties with Trump, has long denied genocide and angrily sought to block any international use of the term.
Biden in 2021 became the first president to recognize the genocide, writing: “The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today.”
Armenian American activists voiced outrage at Trump's language and noted that he had promised to support Armenians, who are overwhelmingly Christian, after Turkish-aligned Azerbaijan seized the Nagorno-Karabakh breakaway enclave dominated by the community in 2023.
“President Trump's omission is not a diplomatic oversight -- but rather a deliberate retreat from truth and a dangerous signal of US tolerance for ongoing anti-Armenian violence,“ he said in a statement.
Asked why Trump did not use the term genocide, National Security Council spokesman James Hewitt said: “These horrific events were one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
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They were either killed or sent on deadly marches into the Syrian desert, deprived of food and water.
Both houses of the US Congress in 2019 nearly unanimously declared that the United States recognizes an Armenian genocide, leading Trump's State Department to issue a statement that the administration’s stance “has not changed” against using the term.
Trump administration officials have often accused Biden of jeopardizing US interests by focusing on human rights, instead suggesting to only raise the issue as a cudgel against US adversaries.
At the end of Trump's first term, the State Department declared that China was committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Uyghur minority due to mass incarceration camps, charges strongly denied by Beijing.
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