FALSE: Obama to Change 'Thanksgiving Day' to 'Celebrate Immigrants Day' by Executive Order
President Obama does not plan to issue an executive order changing the name of Thanksgiving to 'Celebrate Immigrants Day.'

Claim: President Obama plans to issue an executive order changing the name of Thanksgiving to ‘Celebrate Immigrants Day.’
FALSE
Examples: [Collected via e-mail, March 2015]
I read an article stating that President Obama was drafting an Executive Order to
rename Thanksgiving to “Immigrants Day”. I’m wondering if you’ve heard
anything about this?
News clip read in western news journal (FB) that thru executive
order Obama would change thanksgiving day to immigrants day.
Origins: Beginning in February 2015, Susan Payne, a co-host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show on Baltimore station WCBM, appeared as a guest on some other conservative talk radio shows with hosts such as
Susan Payne of Maryland told radio talk show host Joe Miller on KOAN this would be happening once this “amnesty mill” is complete.
A conservative political activist who participated in a conference call with the White House said President Obama should change Thanksgiving Day to a holiday dedicated to illegal immigrants.
There is no plan afoot for such a change of nomenclature, however, nor is that what
her) said that “once this is all finished, there should be another executive order that changes Thanksgiving to Celebrate Immigrants Day.”
So according to
Last updated: 28 September 2015