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Leader of the Free World Mad that Museum Says Slavery Was Bad
Trump is continuing in his quest to turn the White House into Mar-a-Lago by DJ-ing from his iPad on the ugly new Rose Garden patio and closing the place to the public. Tours are temporarily suspended until the construction of his dumb ballroom is complete. [ Mediaite / NBC News]
Trump: Too much museum focus on 'how bad slavery was'
President Trump is calling out the Smithsonian for being too "woke", saying it is only focusing on "how horrible our country is." Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley joins Katy Tur to share his reaction to Trump’s latest attack on museums.
Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments." ...
Claims that a White House official in charge of U.S. President Donald Trump's mandate to review exhibits within the ...
The Recount on MSN2d
"It's not about whitewashing": White House official argues mentions of slavery must include "hope and progress."
It's not about whitewashing, it's all about full context, so while slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's ...
Lindsey Halligan, the president's special assistant, told Fox News "we can’t just keep focusing on the negative." ...
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'What a thing': Trump official ripped for knocking Smithsonian's 'overemphasis on slavery'
The top Trump official tasked with reshaping the Smithsonian’s collections into a more conservative presentation argues that, ...
Is it whitewashing? It's not a museum's job to promote hope, thoughts and prayers. They exhibit the past. Trying to turn them into jingoistic happy meals is not the object. But Trump and his white ...
Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading President Donald Trump’s overhaul of the Smithsonian, thinks its museums overemphasize slavery when they should be emphasizing “how far we’ve ...
President Trump’s adviser leading a review of Smithsonian museums’ content defended the move as shifting the focus to progress, rather than dwelling on past mistakes, and argued that ...
The top Trump official tasked with reshaping the Smithsonian’s collections into a more conservative presentation argues that, based on her experience and expectations, the institution should place ...
Mediaite on MSN2d
White House Official Says ‘Honest’ Slavery Discussion Must Include ‘Hope and Progress’
An adviser to President Donald Trump said that while slavery was "horrible," no serious discussion of it is complete without the inclusion of "hope and progress." ...
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'Would be obscene': Smithsonian shouldn't align with Trump's view of history, says Eugene Robinson
Lindsey Halligan, Special Assistant to the President, on Thursday said the Smithsonian museums over-emphasize slavery when ...
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‘Mr. President, move on’: Republican strategist’s message to Trump on slavery exhibits in museums
CNN political commentator Shermichael Singleton reacts to President Donald Trump’s claims museums were too focused on ...
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