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ANYONE complaining about focusing too much on 'how bad slavery was' can f**k right off [View all]
...Trump Attacks Smithsonian For Focus On 'How Bad Slavery Was' And, Boy, The ResponsesIn the post, the president lashed out at America’s 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 it’s in the Epstein files.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) August 19, 2025
Slavery WAS bad, Donald. It’s absurd that this even needs to be said.
We don’t whitewash history; we learn from it.
You keep trying to rewrite the past— @TheBlackCaucus won’t 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.
...I posted a thing recently:
"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
"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
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