President Donald Trump used his social media platform to create a new holiday and announce that scallop fishing grounds off New England, closed for decades, would reopen. He then urged voters to back Republican candidates in the upcoming midterm elections, warning that a Democratic win would end such access. The move followed a federal decision to allow scallop harvesting in areas protected since the 1990s, potentially boosting one of the nation’s most valuable fisheries, worth hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Trump’s statement linked the policy change directly to the electoral stakes, portraying the opposing party as a threat to the fishing industry.