President Donald Trump criticized the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, saying the institutions were “out of control” and the “last remaining segment of woke.”

In a post to Truth Social, Trump accused the museums of paying too much attention to the negative aspects of American history, particularly the institution of slavery.

“Everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been,” he wrote. “Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”

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Trump encouraged the museums to showcase a more optimistic view of the United States and its history, one that’s in line with an executive order Trump issued in March. That order called for a purge of “divisive narratives that d

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