White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History'
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What. The. Fuck.
You're gonna listen to a syphilitic rapist pedophile's interpretation of history???
They already capitulated.
In November, when Harris was too icky.
She wasn't too icky, it's very possible that they rigged the election by tampering with the voting machines. Suspicious that they pushed them so hard and limited mail-in ballots. They also did a whole lot of voter suppression in other ways.
Also remember that Clinton won the popular vote last time.
It’s wrong to blame the voters. The people deserved a good faith primary election with the chance to vote for a non genocidal maniac who isn’t owned by Israel, and Dems refused to allow it. DNC leadership squarely to blame for this mess.
Fuck that. 10 million less than voted for Biden voted for Harris. Are these people so fucking stupid they forgot who Trump is?
The "primary" thing is a pretty pathetic excuse for helping a convicted felon child rapist win the presidency. Take to a moment to FUCKING THINK about what you're saying. That no primary, for the vice president, the person we choose to take Office in the event of an incapacitated president, means a convicted felon child rapist is the better choice. That's your position. We voted for her and Biden in 2020, that's how that works. Bernie wasn't gonna win this time, he was gonna lose like he did the last two times. And guess who Bernie told you to vote for? Kamala Fucking Harris.
Israel? Really? Because now Netanyahu is going to kick out all the Palestinians and Trump will do everything to help. Are you pretending to have the high ground here? No, you made things worse for them. You used their lives to make a political point. You do NOT get to pretend to care about Palestinians.
I'm so tired of these excuses. It's not DNC's fault. Biden won handily in 2020. Trump did not rig the election. This time it IS the voters' fault. It's completely inexcusable. Democrats proved just how petty, stupid and short-sighted they can truly be and subjected us to what could be the fucking end of the country. We could've had a sane president and Trump in prison, but they gave us this. Enough excuses, take responsibility for your decision.
Guy, don't bother. Tankies are as stupid as MAGA. But MAGA at least votes.
America simply prefers a tyrant to a woman
Was going to say fascist to a female for the alliteration but eh people get mad when you say "female"
Thanks for ruining the word "female" incels
"5 gallon milking machines for all incels" should be an Executive Order
they got mad when i say they dint vote for her because of SEXISM, plain and simple, racism is justy extra spice,.
its a .ml account the comment your responding to, its always whataboutism with these people.
Joe deserves a large share of that blame as well.
I don't think he does.
Even if the choice had been Senile old man who sleeps for 4 years vs. Trump
The choice was EASILY Senile old man.
If you chose not to vote, you chose a vote for Trump.
Biden refused to run a campaign and administration that provided any meaningful progressive vision and then he dropped out only after it was too late.
Of course he does.
edit -to be fair to Biden his administration did get a lot of wins, such as some great environmental policies... but I am talking about a broad vision and rhetoric. An actual alternative to Republican visions of catastrophe that challenge the flawed assumptions at the heart of conservatism. Exhibit A) is how Biden and other powerful establishment democrats never really pushed back on Republican narratives about immigration which opened the door further for Trump to dial things up to 11 in his cruelty towards immigrants in his second term
The senile old man who indicated he'd be a 1-term president then refused to give up the reins when he should have, which stopped voters from actually being able to choose their leading candidate and disenfranchised a lot of people. That was a choice HE made.
When he doddered his confused old ass out onto the debate stage on June 27, 2024 he handed the country back to trump.
He's a piece of shit who deserves to be forgotten.
I'm blaming the voters
That is because you are too cowardly to understand a necessary solidarity between US citizens and Palestinians being slaughtered by primarily US weapons. There is no future for anyone if we cannot drive the wedge of empathy into the machinery of mass death, the Palestinian Genocide is simply a preview of our fates (how many US police departments have trained with the IDF? The answer is a lot) if we do not demand it stop with everything we have.
Shame on you for taking the easy road out and reacting impulsively when the truth is too uncomfortable for you to think about critically.
People will treat you the way you treat others, so let me ask you how do you think people will treat you for being toxic towards people speaking out against a genocide we are complicit in and could stop?
Cool, you win the moral victory while this country is literally torn to pieces.
Congrats on winning!
Great thanks, what do you win for condescending the humanity of Palestinians at a level that bankrupts your intellectual capacity to empathize with people being slaughtered at a mass indiscriminate scale by your countries weapons, money and diplomatic cover?
What you win is the same future for all of us, fool.
"Interpretation" of history ....
they need funding, so.
If what they produce violates their core mission of faithfully documenting history, then why do they need the funding? Their very purpose is moot at that point if they become what their entire existence was made to fight.
Better false loyalty than true indoctrination. Say the right words and ingratiate yourself to the right people and you can do more than you otherwise would have.
If they bend the knee here, then when have they done it before and not told you about it? When will they do it again in the future?
I would rather see Smithsonian close their doors to the public for years rather than so fundamentally betray the core values that they were created to uphold.
I think you do have a point for 99% of other businesses, and while I don't like it, I get it. I'm never buying Apple products again but I understand why Tim Cook does what he did. But the Smithsonian Institution is supposed to be keepers of truth. If these political moves are required for them to stay alive and keep money coming in, then they should rather have elected to die.
They wouldn’t die, someone else would step up. Then we’d have a museum filled with confederate reliquaries.
Also, theyve outlived most every president to exist alongside them. Theyll certainly outlive this one
i agree. that is their logic, however. they need money so they will bend the knee. these institutions are compromised.
To do what? At that point they're nothing but a liability to historical record and intellectual discovery.
i do agree.
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
The 14 characteristics are:
Yes
It's only like 8 or 9 pages. Everyone should read it.
Well, they should have read it years ago, as we're well past "Ur-Fascism" (i.e. nascent fascism) now.
well at least labor power hasnt been totally suppressed and elections have so far been relatively legitimate...
12/14 isn't bad right guys? right???
15 - Lack of coherent formatting.
They can't resist what they can't read!
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?
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.
It's the American Way.
Could you imagine the outrage if Obama or Biden even suggested this?
Where is the liberal outrage?
To be honest I'm pretty fuckin mad right now but my salary has 5 figures so you won't hear about it.
If your income is 9+ figures, the media comes to you to find out what you think about it.
Or you have your own social media platform from which your opinion can be amplified to millions.
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.
I heard you.
But my salary is also only 5 figures, so it didn't matter.
Where? Outside your door, in the streets, getting tear gassed by the National Guard.
No one’s outside my door and any protest has been fairly small so far.
We have seen a massive, historic amount of protests since Trump's election?
They haven’t had a hundredth of the coverage that Jan 6 did so these protests are failing.
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.
Where do you find this coverage, then?
Twitter?
You must have spooked them, check the bushes.
I keep my bushes trimmed so my house looks bigger.
Where is all people outrage. Republicans should protest too. Bending history is fascist practice.
Please, he's vetting kids to ensure they align with his interpretation of "too young"
How are you suggesting the Smithsonian depict that?
With the Epstein files, in their entirety. Ideally.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
And make a Smithsonian exhibit out of them while we're at it!
Excuse me, I think you meant the Trump/Epstein files
They've already redacted Trumps name from the files.
The files ARE the distraction
"...Trump's interpretation..."
Lol! This fuckin' moron doesn't even understand basic high school level shit. The US is doomed.
Well, you know what they say. Someone could shoot him on 5th Avenue and no one would care.
If someone shot him on 5th Ave I might write their name in on the next election.
ah yes, the whiny losers that complain about erasing history... erasing history
Who cares. The Smithsonian already lost all its credibility when they sucked Trump's dick regarding the impeachment display.
You mean the impeachment display that was added back with more detail?
"more" detail? You mean "modified" detail?
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.
The Smithsonian is not a business, and gets over 60% their funds from the govt.
I don't give a fuck. They're cowards and bootlickers if they change displays because it hurts somebody's feelings.
So?
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.
We are FAR past the point that "just following orders" is a valid excuse.
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.
thats what the soldiers of the nazis said.
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.
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.
much like all the lawfirms and university like columbia that bent the knee to him.
The turd has got them by the balls.
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.
Send em to the cornfield.
To be with his people.
He who controls the present, controls the past.
He who controls the past, controls the future.
Save the cheerleader.
Save the world.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo-goo g'joob
If the Smithsonian complies, they can forget me ever purchasing one of their learning kits ever again.
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/
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/
Finally, the Air Force will finally get the attention it deserves at the American Revolution exhibit.
You mean the War of Rights exhibit?
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.
Where are all those "don't tread on me" types..
Master Historian Donald J Trunk!
Trump Jong-Don is really in full swing, eh.
정돈 ㅋㅋ sounds like a proper pig.
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.
Make America North Korea Again
MANKA
We are so ridiculous.
Ah yes, let the pedo interpret the country's history
Trump can't even correctly interpret the word "no"
It's an inevitability that the Republican party will want to control internet discourse very soon for this same reason. Convenient that so many platforms suddenly want to deanonymize you "to protect the kids".
Obvious fascism is obvious.
Its a trick to end online discourse forever
We need a comic depiction of Trump's interpretation of history. That'd be…fascinating.
History started when the British dive bombed Pearl Harbor and illegally landed their jets at JFK International Airport in 1776, obviously.
The US air force fought back with their invisible fighter jets.
Trump Tracts
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Please god please. Or whatever is out there.
Hello you've reached the Abyss, how can we hurt you?
By doing nothing at this point.
This is an automated message
I did Nazi this coming.
Just mess with the arrow signs so he gets lost.
When do we get to start calling your government a regime?
Do it
Getting a lot of miles out of this paragraph with the trump regime:
1984
Remember The Time Masheen from idiocracy? That’s what the Smithsonian is going to be soon.
Common dreams should be willing to say "goverment censors" are being brought in to erase history.
Doge was at its heart a censorship program.
What's the long-game, man?
Like, he dies and we just mop up Trump's bullshit with the new guy's bullshit?
Wait, that's literally how history works.
Fuck this country. There’s nothing here worth fighting for anymore.