ANYONE complaining about focusing too much on 'how bad slavery was' can f**k right off

[bigtree]

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

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.”



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

[pwb]

1. Eventually trump will run out of things to create false outrage.

When he is dead.

[Linda ladeewolf]

24. Soon, I hope.

[LoisB]

2. ...and they can jump right through the portal of hell.

[SilverDawg]

3. Funny....

I remember visiting the Aero Space museum at the Smithsonian and seeing all of the aircraft and spacecraft developed and built by America. Isn’t THAT success?? What is he talking about!?

[yardwork]

5. I doubt he's ever stepped foot in a museum except for a party.

[leftstreet]

4. DURec

[underpants]

6. Definitely 👍

[underpants]

7. He could be in a new industry here - History museums that focus on the Future

🙄

[niyad]

16. Thank you. I had to look at his drivel twice to make certain I had read

it correctly. Obviously, neither he, nor his sycophants, acolytes, toadies, ass-kissers, etc., has any understanding of the concept of a "museum".

[ananda]

8. Slavery wasn't just "bad." It was monstrous and horrible.

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]

26. Bu but it taught them a useful trade!

Yeah, useful to WHO?

[eppur_se_muova]

9. The Founding Fathers would surely envy his eloquence -- 'We have the "HOTTEST" Country in the World !'

How can you respond to such a powerful statement as that ?

[underpants]

11. This sums it up for me. I'd never seen this until recently

[paleotn]

25. The heritage of racists and oppressors.

Funny, Germany doesn't put up monuments fetishizing the 3rd Reich. Talk about a "hot" nation. They controlled most of Europe.

[RoeVWade]

12. We're going back to when Christopher Columbus was just a good guy who discovered America.

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]

13. You can either be woke or not asleep.

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]

14. The same as -

ANYONE complaining about focusing too much on 'how bad fascism was' can fuck right off!

Either one, FRO!

[malaise]

15. The Assault on Memory

That is all

[58Sunliner]

17. Only a sadistic racist sociopath could post this in earnest.

There is a very real pathology amongst his followers.

[Blue Full Moon]

18. Republicans want slavery again

[sop]

30. Perhaps not chattel slavery, where people are personal property, to be bought and sold like any other possession.

Rather, Republicans want the freedom to treat certain classes of people like slaves without any legal restraints.

[Blue Full Moon]

31. No chattle.

[Efilroft Sul]

19. Ah, yes, the complaints from one who fancies himself a member of the ownership class.

Nat Turner and John Brown send their regards.

[TheRickles]

20. Someone in Congress should propose a simple resolution: Slavery was bad.

It'd be interesting to see who would oppose something as black-and-white as that (pun intended).

[IronLionZion]

21. He wants history museums to talk about our bright future

and this is why GOP cuts education funding.

[stollen]

22. Your chances of being sent to hell just increased exponentially

Care to rethink that statement?

[surfered]

23. He's playing to his racist base

[tavernier]

27. You ppl don't understand that no one has suffered like he has.

Obama joked about him and everybody laughed.

The cruelty is unforgivable.

[calimary]

32. Pardon me, but - "he's suffered"???

How? When? What kind of “suffering”?

(Or maybe I’m just not getting the joke?)

[tavernier]

37. Seriously?

Every time I make fun of Trump, do I have to put a sarcasm emoji up? No he hasn’t 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]

38. He had to hear that white me. Did terrible things

Poor little snowflake

[czarjak]

28. "Racism is dead."

Said John Roberts. So…

[Clouds Passing]

29. People will be asking, Remember how bad it was when slave owning Dump was President

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 women’s 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]

33. What an ignorant nincompoop!

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]

34. I'm thinking that Tim Scott and Byron Donalds could explain the Republican position on how bad slavery was.

[Keepthesoulalive]

35. Let's get the important stuff out of the way

He’s stupid and ignorant. He’s attempting to distract from the disaster his presidency is and Epstein.

[senseandsensibility]

36. How is it possible to focus too much on how bad slavery was?

I honestly don't get it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. Mike Luckovich-The Smithsonian after trump is finished

— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T20:29:12.098Z