Aug. 21, 2025
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Clay Waters
Don’t question tax-funded museum wokery: The last segment of Wednesday’s PBS News Hour presented leftist historian Peniel Joseph to jump on a social media post by President Trump claiming the Smithsonian Institution had gone overboard dwelling on American slavery.
PBS is the latest network rankled by Trump’s insistence that the Smithsonian museums emphasize America’s greatness and not perpetually dwell on shameful moments from our history, and that the tax-funded network of museums should reflect America’s imperfectly realized aspirations toward liberty and justice for all – an idea many Americans would agree with. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz distorted the discussion in her introduction.
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