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Trump Attacks Museum For Focus On 'How Bad Slavery Was' And, Boy, The Responses

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20.08.2025

Donald Trump was the subject of much internet mockery on Tuesday after he griped in a Truth Social post about the Smithsonian Institution (checks notes) portraying slavery as a bad thing.

In 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.”

TruthSocial post: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115056914674717313

Trump’s animosity toward the Smithsonian is nothing new.

Back in March, he issued an executive order that targeted the research institute for content he claimed promoted so-called “divisive ideology.”

But one person’s “divisive ideology” is most........

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