Trump orders disclaimers outside Smithsonian’s Museum of American History

[Trump] criticized the Smithsonian Institute and National Park Service sites for allegedly focusing too much on the history of enslavement in the U.S., instead of the country’s “success.”

The US

• Became a nation in 1776
• Passed the 13th amendment legally ending chattel slavery in 1865
• Carried the message of freedom into Texas in 1866
• Continued share cropping as a wide spread practice through the 1960s (my dad was born in the 1960s)
• Still enslaves people today

Our entire history is built around slavery. Any discussion of the US should reflect it's sordid past of enslavement, and any success we do see is built upon exploitation.

“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future,” he wrote on Truth Social.

That's...not it's job?

The War on History is a War on Democracy

I was reading this recently as part of this open history course by Timothy Snyder called Hitler and Stalin Today.

Seems relevant, the regime is trying to dictate the past and install memory censorship.

Holy shit, was a pissy little man baby. It must be painful to be that goddamned petty.

I thought trigger warnings were woke? Something about snowflakes and safe spaces.

Dictator move

Might as well put some around the White House.

The Smithsonian Institute declined to comment.