In Saying Museums Only Show ‘How Bad Slavery Was,’ Trump Doesn’t Understand What They Really Stand For

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to again denounce the Smithsonian. The museum network, he claimed, has only devoted itself to showing “how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.” But his splenetic outburst also had a broader target: not only “Museums throughout Washington,” but also ones “all over the Country,” which he described as “the last rema