In his latest attack on reality itself, Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account that he thinks Smithsonian museums focus too much on “how bad slavery was.” The White House released a list of exhibits to demonstrate his point, such as a series on how to be anti-racist, artwork depicting the horrors of the Middle Passage, programs on LGBTQ+ history and Latino people with disabilities, and so on. Ali Velshi notes that, in fact, slavery spans 250 years of United States History (if you measure conservatively), and its legacy continues to shape society today.

Trump is targeting the Smithsonian Institution in the same way he targeted universities. These free, federally funded institutions reveal the history of America and showcase the tireless work of researchers, historians, sociologist

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