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Miles Archer

(21,583 posts)
3. You may remember this one, from 2017
Mon Dec 29, 2025, 09:20 AM
3 hrs ago

Trump's biggest stumbling block is that he wants to sound intelligent and insightful, and of course, he's neither of those.

Trump says Frederick Douglass has ‘done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more’

Dylan Stableford, Reporter
Wed, February 1, 2017 at 11:57 AM EST

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-frederick-douglass-has-done-an-amazing-job-and-is-being-recognized-more-and-more-165725641.html

President Trump participated in what was supposed to be an “African-American History Month listening session” at the White House on Wednesday. But at least initially Trump did most of the talking.

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“You all read about Dr. Martin Luther King a week ago when somebody said I took the statue out of my office, and it turned out that it was fake news,” Trump said at the top of the meeting, which was attended by roughly 20 civil rights and religious leaders and black members of the Trump administration. “Fake news. The statue is cherished. It’s one of the favorite things in the — and we have some good ones. We have Lincoln. And we have Jefferson. And we have Dr. Martin Luther King. … But they said the statue, the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, was taken out of the office. And it was never even touched.”

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The president then said he was proud of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where visitors can learn about King and other historical black figures.

“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice,” Trump said. Douglass was a 19th-century African-American abolitionist, writer and orator who died in 1895.

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