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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,403 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 07:48 PM Aug 2025

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

Donald Trump was the subject of much internet mockery on Tuesday after he griped in a Truth Social post about the Smithsonian Institution (checks notes) portraying slavery as a bad thing.

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’s animosity toward the Smithsonian is nothing new.

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So naturally, people blasted Trump for complaining about the Smithsonian putting slavery in a bad light.













https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-attacks-smithsonian-focus-bad-221253591.html

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Hekate

(100,131 posts)
3. The rest of MAGA keeps using euphemisms, but they are on board with it. I know what a Trad Wife with no contraceptives...
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 07:55 PM
Aug 2025

…is. Even better if she has no vote, and her education ends in high school when she gets pregnant and is forced to marry.

BurnDoubt

(1,386 posts)
12. YEP!!!!!
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 10:09 PM
Aug 2025

I was there that day, when he said that for the first of a billion times.
And yet NOBODY EVER ASKED WHAT THE US WOULD LOOK LIKE AFTER THE "GREATIFICATION"!!!!!
Whatever ... when he says it, it's The God's Own Truth.
When Democrats say it, it's Treason.
In Oklahoma, if you can't puke-up the MAGALOMANIA Manifesto, you won't be allowed to Teach there.
LIBERTY! LIBERTY! LIBERTY!... All join in... LIBERTY! LIBERTY! LIBERTY!
You Free Now... go pick that cotton, Boy.
Deplorable.

Collimator

(2,075 posts)
8. Thanks for pointing out that part.
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 09:46 PM
Aug 2025

Most of the rant is outright offensive, but that part about the future is just plain stupid. My first thought was, "Aren't museums generally about the past?" How exactly are we supposed to preserve the future?

Also, the talk about America being "hot"? Yeah, he did put the word in quotes, but it sounds like he thinks that the country looks good in a bikini.

BurnDoubt

(1,386 posts)
11. As I stated earlier, once Felonius I has tasted the lash a few times and watches as his wife and daughter are...
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 09:59 PM
Aug 2025

treated to their nightly adjunct duties with Massa, and watches as his children are SOLD... SOLD... SOLD!... I wonder if he's still wavin' that flag for the Lost Cause ?
I wonder what a twelve-year-old Ivanka would have fetched for Massa? (Although he has already called dibs?)
That he even made such an assertion about Slavery makes me want to PUKE!!!!!
Slavery is WRONG. (Remember how Jesus abused his Slaves?) (Oh, never-mind... That's only in the Trump Bible. My Mistake!)
Once again for those at the bar: Slavery is WRONG!!!!!
Deplorable.

dsharp88

(525 posts)
13. He's actually complaining that historians are fixated on the past.
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 10:19 PM
Aug 2025

It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerously deranged.

ReRe

(12,164 posts)
14. "Make America Great Again"? What a joke!
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 10:27 PM
Aug 2025

All he has done in this second term is tear thru every institution that made us a wonderful country. He has turned the Kennedy Center into a photo backdrop for sudden impromptu press conferences. I don't ever remember a gift shop in the White House. The SOB does not understand what the Smithsonian is! Someone needs to sit this man down and tell him it's time to STOP once and for all! Someone needs to put him in a straight jacket , GD it. The Emperor has no clothes! He's out of his ever-loving mind all ready! .The marauding must stop. They are getting ready to rip the heart out of America by removing or dismantling The Smithsonian museums, the Native American and the African American museums. He's the one that's out of control, not the Smithsonian!!!!

NBachers

(19,138 posts)
15. Taliban goes on rampage of destroying ancient historical artifacts.
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 10:55 PM
Aug 2025
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81431&page=1

L O N D O N, March 2 -- Like silent sentinels in a foreign land, two giant Buddhas have gazed out from the cliffs of Bamiyan in Afghanistan since the 5th century.

Today, it has been confirmed that their gaze will be lowered forever under a hail of tank and rocket fire— ending perhaps thousands of years of religious tolerance.

Sources from the Afghan Northern Alliance have confirmed that Afghanistan's hard-line Islamic warriors, the Taliban started demolishing Buddha statues in Bamiyan today. And they plan to destroy Buddha images all over the country
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