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Trump vs. the Smithsonian: When White Fragility Becomes Policy

The man who thought Frederick Douglass was still alive now wants to fact-check the Smithsonian.

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General Azmundus
Aug 20, 2025
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Donald Trump is at war with museums now. Not crime, not corruption, not the collapse of working-class wages — museums. In a Truth Social rant, he fumed:

“Our once great Smithsonian Institution, and many other Museums, are out of control. They only show the negative — how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden…

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