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Tony Bark@pawb.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History'

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White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History'

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White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History' | Common Dreams
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The Wall Street Journal reports Trump's White House is monitoring the Smithsonian for exhibits aligning with his view of American history.
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    Trump rapes little kids.

    • andallthat@lemmy.world
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      Please, he’s vetting kids to ensure they align with his interpretation of “too young”

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      How are you suggesting the Smithsonian depict that?

      • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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        With the Epstein files, in their entirety. Ideally.

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    RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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      Excuse me, I think you meant the Trump/Epstein files

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      And make a Smithsonian exhibit out of them while we’re at it!

    • Wolf@lemmy.today
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      They’ve already redacted Trumps name from the files.

    • ObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.world
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      The files ARE the distraction

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    Could you imagine the outrage if Obama or Biden even suggested this?

    Where is the liberal outrage?

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      To be honest I’m pretty fuckin mad right now but my salary has 5 figures so you won’t hear about it.

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        If your income is 9+ figures, the media comes to you to find out what you think about it.

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          Or you have your own social media platform from which your opinion can be amplified to millions.

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            Im positive theres already posts about this on other social media sites by people with millions more followers than the person you replied to will ever have and im also just as positive it wont move the needle as tomorrow they’ll all be mad at the new terrible thing he does.

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        I heard you.

        But my salary is also only 5 figures, so it didn’t matter.

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      Where? Outside your door, in the streets, getting tear gassed by the National Guard.

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        No one’s outside my door and any protest has been fairly small so far.

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          We have seen a massive, historic amount of protests since Trump’s election?

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            They haven’t had a hundredth of the coverage that Jan 6 did so these protests are failing.

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              We bring our own media coverage, this is the 2020s not the 1980s, mainstream news outlets have collapsed in viewership and our protests are growing fast even though they are already big.

              If mainstream news doesn’t want to cover it, they are just signing their own death sentence of irrelevance from the perspective of their core intended audience.

              • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
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                Where do you find this coverage, then?

                Twitter?

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          You must have spooked them, check the bushes.

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            I keep my bushes trimmed so my house looks bigger.

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      Where is all people outrage. Republicans should protest too. Bending history is fascist practice.

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    Just fucking close the museum if you’re going to comply with this shit. He has no authority to do this, so why are people always just bending over to get fucked by his tiny dick?

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      Yup if they capitulate then nothing on display can be trusted. Makes the place moot and useless. Shut it down will at least give it a chance to come back after this shit ends.

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      It’s the American Way.

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      It really does feel like Trump is the little boy in the It’s a Good Life episode of The Twilight Zone with how eager everyone is to gargle his balls. It’s infuriating.

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        Send em to the cornfield.

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          To be with his people.

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    Who cares. The Smithsonian already lost all its credibility when they sucked Trump’s dick regarding the impeachment display.

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      You mean the impeachment display that was added back with more detail?

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        “more” detail? You mean “modified” detail?

        "The word “alleged” was added to the text about Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial, changing the sentence, “The charges focused on the president’s solicitation of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election…” to, “The charges focused on the president’s alleged solicitation of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election and defiance of Congressional subpoenas. Trump was acquitted in January 2020.”

        More significant changes were made to the description of the second 2021 impeachment. Specifically, the phrases “repeated ‘false statements’” and “‘encouraged ‒ and foreseeably resulted in ‒ imminent lawless action at the Capitol’” were removed when discussing Trump’s involvement in Jan. 6."

        They changed the display to make daddy trump happy.

        Iin case you missed it, this is the how much spine the Smithsonian has:

        Fuck the Smithsonian.

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      The Smithsonian is not a business, and gets over 60% their funds from the govt.

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        I don’t give a fuck. They’re cowards and bootlickers if they change displays because it hurts somebody’s feelings.

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        So?

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          The Smithsonian has to follow orders, even if they don’t want to because it would mean cutting their funding or ending up freezing it.

          There should be an amendment that protects the Smithsonian from this without the risk of having its funds frozen.

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            We are FAR past the point that “just following orders” is a valid excuse.

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              The fact that so many people here (a generally left leaning space) are still trying to use it as an excuse says so much about the state of our education system.

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              thats what the soldiers of the nazis said.

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            I thought we decided no one “has to” follow orders in 1945.

            Refuse and make them drag you out screaming. Throw a shit fit. Stand up for something for once in your fucking lives, it’s not that hard. I had some dude claiming to be with ice asking for one of my students, I told him to go talk to the campus police. Did I get fired? No. Was I dragged away? Also no. Having more than a toothpick for a spine isn’t that hard.

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            The Smithsonian has to follow orders, even if they don’t want to because it would mean cutting their funding or ending up freezing it.

            As a museum, if they’re more willing to “follow orders” than they are to present actual fact, they fucking deserve to have every penny of their funding cut.

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              much like all the lawfirms and university like columbia that bent the knee to him.

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          The turd has got them by the balls.

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    “…Trump’s interpretation…”

    Lol! This fuckin’ moron doesn’t even understand basic high school level shit. The US is doomed.

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      Well, you know what they say. Someone could shoot him on 5th Avenue and no one would care.

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        If someone shot him on 5th Ave I might write their name in on the next election.

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    ah yes, the whiny losers that complain about erasing history… erasing history

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    If the Smithsonian complies, they can forget me ever purchasing one of their learning kits ever again.

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      In a way they already have:

      “The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., has removed references to President Donald Trump in a display about impeachments, despite Trump being the first and only president in American history to be impeached twice.”

      https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/01/smithsonian-removes-trump-impeachment-exhibit-response/85473807007/

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        Maybe pay more attention to the news.

        “A more permanent display about the president has since been added, as have artifacts from the proceedings. Some text was changed between displays, specifically concerning Trump’s involvement with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and accusations of election interference.”

        https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/smithsonian-trump-impeachment-display-changes/85611633007/

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    Make America North Korea Again

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      MANKA

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    Trump Jong-Don is really in full swing, eh.

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      정돈 ㅋㅋ sounds like a proper pig.

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    Finally, the Air Force will finally get the attention it deserves at the American Revolution exhibit.

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      You mean the War of Rights exhibit?

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        Yes, US rights to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. With Teddy Roosevelt leading the charge alongside his Rough Riders in their F-14s.

        Edit: Probably heard from the carrier fleet as they took off and engaged the Spanish.

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    First thing, change the sign up front to “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” so people will know they’re going to see a mix of facts with some crazy make-believe bullshit.

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    He who controls the present, controls the past.

    He who controls the past, controls the future.

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      Save the cheerleader.

      Save the world.

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        I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
        I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob

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    Master Historian Donald J Trunk!

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