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Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there’s too much focus on ‘how bad slavery was’
CNN ^ | August 19, 2025 | Kit Maher , Piper Hudspeth Blackburn

Posted on 08/19/2025 1:53:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 08/19/2025 1:53:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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And, now for the rest of the quote.....

Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future,” Trump wrote.

2 posted on 08/19/2025 1:56:36 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh oh!


3 posted on 08/19/2025 1:56:57 PM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991 unburdened by what I was burdened by before.)
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4 posted on 08/19/2025 1:57:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Janet Marstine, a (self-proclaimed) museum ethics expert, said that the demands laid out by the Trump administration “set the Smithsonian up for failure.”

Perhaps Ms. Marstine’s ox has been gored.

5 posted on 08/19/2025 1:58:06 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Finally.....I like this idea.

If we are going to have a huge bureaucracy, at least don’t have it constantly tell me how terrible I am and how bad my country is.


6 posted on 08/19/2025 1:58:51 PM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Heeeeere we go. This will be the new "fine people" hoax.

Hopefully, Trump (and other Republicans! Ahem!) will take advantage of the predictable demonicRAT outrage machine to point out that it was primarily, if not totally, demonicRATS who owned slaves.

In fact, if Trump was trying to end slavery today, demonicRATS would oppose him.

Prove me wrong.

7 posted on 08/19/2025 2:00:56 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Let's see...what else can we adjust here...

"President Donald Trump continued fulfilling his campaign promise to purge public institutions of materials that promote socialist and anti-American propaganda on Tuesday

8 posted on 08/19/2025 2:01:43 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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So many Debbie Downers at the Smithsonian.


9 posted on 08/19/2025 2:02:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Slam dunk this will be the next liberal talking point tomorow.


10 posted on 08/19/2025 2:03:30 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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Here’s an idea for people who are obsessed with “saving our democracy”:

Ask the Majority of Americans if they want to be constantly insulted, put down, and blamed for every bad thing because once upon a time, this country had slavery.

I bet the Majority would rather move on. So ... there you go. Basic democracy: Majority wins, and the Minority view can go suck it.


11 posted on 08/19/2025 2:04:04 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Society has no reward for following the rules any more)
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The history of Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum has a section about tourists seeing the outdoor exhibits of small Indvidual white block slave houses each with a bed and fireplace from a plantation and various items from slave life. Many tourists commented that the slave life didn’t seem very bad at all. The curators then added more to the spoken narratives of the re-enactors and to the plaques telling the stories.

The adjacent indoor museum soon added a full civil rights era exhibit and the museum paid for the original bus where Detroit native Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus.


12 posted on 08/19/2025 2:04:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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👍 👌


13 posted on 08/19/2025 2:06:22 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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WTF is a museum ethics expert?


14 posted on 08/19/2025 2:10:22 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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WTF is a museum ethics expert?

Someone who couldn't hold a job in the real world.

15 posted on 08/19/2025 2:13:05 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Trump is just trying to help the DEMOCRATS because they were the slave owners.

Maybe exhibits showing the valiant Republicans fighting and dying to end the democrats’ evil practices?


16 posted on 08/19/2025 2:13:33 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Or an exhibit depicting the fact that The Republican Party was created to end slavery.

And please, nobody try to FReepsplain to me how it wasn't. It will only fall on deaf ears. Or eyes. Blind eyes. Whatever. You know the thing.

17 posted on 08/19/2025 2:17:29 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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“Ask the Majority of Americans if they want to be constantly insulted, put down, and blamed for every bad thing because once upon a time, this country had slavery.”

I can’t help but wonder if the Smithsonian has exhibits explaining that African slavery was invented in Africa?

If so, does the narrative encourage people of African descent to hang their heads low knowing that their native continent was the birthplace of African slavery? Are they told how shameful it is to be identified with Africa?


18 posted on 08/19/2025 2:19:02 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: doorgunner69

Tonight I imagine


19 posted on 08/19/2025 2:21:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Texas Eagle

On the Apple series “Masters of the Air”, a black pilot captured by the Germans was questioned why he fought for the United States when they treated blacks so badly. His response was fantastic, “I don’t fight for what it is, but what it could become.”


20 posted on 08/19/2025 2:23:33 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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