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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsANYONE complaining about focusing too much on 'how bad slavery was' can f**k right off
...Trump Attacks Smithsonian For Focus On 'How Bad Slavery Was' And, Boy, The ResponsesIn the post, the president lashed out at Americas museums for being the last remaining segment of WOKE, before singling out the Smithsonian as OUT OF CONTROL for discussing how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been, but nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.

Trump wants to cover up slavery like its in the Epstein files.
Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 19, 2025
Slavery WAS bad, Donald. Its absurd that this even needs to be said.
We dont whitewash history; we learn from it.
You keep trying to rewrite the past @TheBlackCaucus wont let you get away with it. https://t.co/CoVc7LqY5b
Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (@RepKamlagerDove) August 19, 2025
Donald Trump is reviewing museums because they talk too much about how bad slavery was.
Also, why would museums talk about the future? pic.twitter.com/tZN1BRLoAr
Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) August 19, 2025
1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who types in caps and uses random quote marks. ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this?
2. He wants to celebrate our current country in a museum? His brain is too broken to understand what a https://t.co/UzvfeQHxa0
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 19, 2025
more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-attacks-smithsonian-slavery-bad_n_68a4deaae4b0d42cc1e38440
...resign, racist traitor.
"We've buttoned up our Union Blues to join the fight for our freedom... railed against injustice decade upon decade."
That's an excerpt from then-president Barack Obama at the Dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
read more: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220559321

pwb
(12,336 posts)When he is dead.
Linda ladeewolf
(995 posts)LoisB
(11,480 posts)SilverDawg
(878 posts)I remember visiting the Aero Space museum at the Smithsonian and seeing all of the aircraft and spacecraft developed and built by America. Isnt THAT success?? What is he talking about!?
yardwork
(67,779 posts)leftstreet
(37,054 posts)underpants
(192,459 posts)underpants
(192,459 posts)🙄
niyad
(126,528 posts)it correctly. Obviously, neither he, nor his sycophants, acolytes, toadies, ass-kissers, etc., has any understanding of the concept of a "museum".
ananda
(32,907 posts)A lot of it has been whitewashed so even a lot of people
who know it was "bad" don't know how horrible it really was.
Ligyron
(7,978 posts)Yeah, useful to WHO?
eppur_se_muova
(39,789 posts)How can you respond to such a powerful statement as that ?
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underpants
(192,459 posts)
paleotn
(20,784 posts)Funny, Germany doesn't put up monuments fetishizing the 3rd Reich. Talk about a "hot" nation. They controlled most of Europe.
RoeVWade
(629 posts)Trump's the one turning America's flag into dirty underwear flying over the White House - Shit upon shit upon shit.
Shit masked as righteousness.
Progressive dog
(7,521 posts)Woke would include not being drunk, demented, or just plain stupid.
If enough of us were woke, someone like Trump would be in jail, not the White House.
werdna
(1,087 posts)ANYONE complaining about focusing too much on 'how bad fascism was' can fuck right off!
Either one, FRO!
malaise
(288,340 posts)That is all
58Sunliner
(5,994 posts)There is a very real pathology amongst his followers.
Blue Full Moon
(2,699 posts)sop
(15,722 posts)Rather, Republicans want the freedom to treat certain classes of people like slaves without any legal restraints.
Blue Full Moon
(2,699 posts)Efilroft Sul
(4,143 posts)Nat Turner and John Brown send their regards.
TheRickles
(2,929 posts)It'd be interesting to see who would oppose something as black-and-white as that (pun intended).
IronLionZion
(49,750 posts)and this is why GOP cuts education funding.
stollen
(957 posts)Care to rethink that statement?
surfered
(8,812 posts)tavernier
(13,888 posts)Obama joked about him and everybody laughed.
The cruelty is unforgivable.
calimary
(87,552 posts)How? When? What kind of suffering?
(Or maybe Im just not getting the joke?)
tavernier
(13,888 posts)Every time I make fun of Trump, do I have to put a sarcasm emoji up? No he hasnt suffered, other than maybe having to drink tapwater instead of ice water one time in his life when he was in a desert. My reference basically was about the time when Obama made fun of him during the correspondence dinner and he got his widdle feelings hurt.
malaise
(288,340 posts)Poor little snowflake
czarjak
(13,141 posts)Said John Roberts. So
Clouds Passing
(5,626 posts)and the slave owning promoting Unheritage Lack-of-foundation ruled our country? Remember when they kidnapped people from anywhere they could and sold them into slavery after holding them in abysmal circumstances for unspecified amount of time? Remember when those cowards kidnapping people wore masks, hats, and sunglasses to hide their identities from the people they were kidnapping and the people who were witnessing? Remember when they were taking away peoples basic rights, including womens rights to their own bodies, the right to due process, the right for people to walk safely in their city without being attacked by national guards?
I hope soon!
ShazzieB
(21,451 posts)He doesn't have the foggiest idea what museums are FOR, much less how or why they do what they do. I wonder if he's ever even visited one. If he did, he was probably bored out of his skull and completely iggnored whatever information was being presented, because he's not interested in anything that's not all about HIM.
Now that I think of it, since he thinks everything always IS about him, I'll bet he is taking anything said about this country that sounds the least bit negative as a personal insult to him! That probably sounds crazy, but it's exactly the kind of crazy he is!
I've just started rereading Mary Trump's book Too Much and Never Enough, and was struck by something she said in the prologue, about how he sees everything through the prism of money:
The costs and benefits of governing are considered in purely financial terms, as if the US Treasury were his personal piggy bank. To him, every dollar going out was his loss, while every dollar saved was his gain. (Too Much and Never Enough. P. 15, copied and pasted from my copy of the Kindle book)
If he sees the US Treasury as his personal piggy bank, it makes sense, imo, that he sees everything to do with the federal government as his personal playground, to be remade in a way that reflects his personal beliefs and his personal (lack of) taste! That fits right right in with the tacky, gaudy, and downright tawdry changes he's made to the White House. Like the White House, he sees those museums as an expression of himself that needs to be fashioned in line with the whims of his own tacky, gaudy, and downright tawdry personality. That includes changing anything that he thinks makes a negative statement about this country, because to him, those statements reflect negatively on HIM.
Yes, that's crazy, but we are dealing with a legitimately crazy man here.
Permanut
(7,507 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(1,681 posts)Hes stupid and ignorant. Hes attempting to distract from the disaster his presidency is and Epstein.
senseandsensibility
(23,507 posts)I honestly don't get it.