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Trump takes aim at Smithsonian
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The examples cited included a 2020 "Whiteness" Infographic, Latinos With Disabilities Program & Anthony Fauci Portrait
Since President Donald Trump has returned to office, he has launched an ambitious assault on libraries, museums and other repositories of America’s history. Most recently, his administration has set its sights on the Smithsonian, one of the crown jewels of this country’s cultural institutions.
CBS host Tony Dokoupil agreed with Trump's criticism of Smithsonian museums focusing too much on America's negative history rather than celebrating achievements.
Both the American history and air and space museums honor American innovation and achievement. The air and space museum’s most famous exhibits include the Wright Brothers’ airplane, the "Spirit of St. Louis," which Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic, and relics from the many U.S. missions to the moon.
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Donald Trump has, yet again, complained that historians call the US slave trade “horrible” while threatening to sue institutions that don’t comment on the”success” he says it brought. The 79-year-old US president branded US museums,