Trump blasts 'out of control' museums for teaching 'how bad Slavery was' in wild rant
trump wants to rewrite history to fit his bigoted and racist views
President Donald Trump ranted on Truth Social that teaching about America's history of slaverery is unacceptable.
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"The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of 'WOKE.' 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," claimed Trump.
The Smithsonian Museum of African American History walks through the struggles of those who were kidnapped and brought to the United States to work as slaves. However, as one ascends the floors, the exhibits hold up the abolitionist movement, the successes of civil rights, and celebrate those who continue to fight for equal rights.
The GOP president went on to promise, "We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities, where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the 'HOTTEST' Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums," he closes.
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Peter (fl. 1863) (also known as Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", or "Poor Peter"
was an escaped American slave who was the subject of photographs documenting the extensive keloid scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery. The "scourged back" photo became one of the most widely circulated photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War and remains one of the most notable photos of the 19th-century United States.
The photo of the scourged back "spurred a number of different narratives, all of which were intended to illustrate the meaning of his portrait, and privilege his photograph as a means by which to picture slavery and dramatize the need for abolition".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(enslaved_man)
attempts to make 'a deal' among the participants. 
As we've seen time and again, whenever he's feeling the sting from the fact that he's FAILING MISERABLY, Trumps first instinct is to lean into the VERY thinly-veiled racism that is at the core of his popularity among the deplorables. And also start playing up the idea that he's actually 'Christian', just like his cultists, hence the 'heaven' comments in an interview today.
We've seen this movie, over and over. His adoring throng never catches on that they're being played, or if they do, they love it.
It's a frickin' MUSEUM, Mr. Dingbat! It's all about preserving the PAST!
If his brains were dynamite, he couldn't blow his nose.
Making America great again means going back to a time where racial discrimination and oppression was okay. Now trump wants to make America great again by bringing back slavery. trump wants to make America hate again
Link to tweet
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-smithsonian-portray-americas-brightness-bad-slavery/story
"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," Trump wrote on his social media platform.
"We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made," Trump added. "This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the 'HOTTEST' Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums."
The Smithsonian declined to comment.
of the Trump Confederacy probably doesn't like all the years of bad publicity heaped on their ancestors. After all, slavery taught the slaves "useful skills." They should have thanked their generous owners, right?
2023: New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills
You know damn well TSF would love to own slaves and pay them little or nothing while he lords over his "property." Given his glaring lack of any moral character, I frankly expected some movement toward a return to some kind of slavery, maybe expanded prison slavery, during his first term.
