Fun With History

 Here are some things that the "president" of the "United" States has said about the Smithsonian Institute. One of them is completely made up. 

He wanted references to his impeachment during his first term as "president" removed from the exhibit titled "The American Presidency - A Glorious Burden." Instead, the exhibit only refers to the "only three presidents have seriously faced removal from office." For you history buffs, those three would be Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Richard Nixon. 

The Second Trumpreich issued an executive order in March  calling for the Smithsonian to overhaul its collection and present a more celebratory view of the country. Probably because there is so very much to celebrate in a nation created by the genocide of its native peoples and the outright theft of their lands. 

And what celebration needs a downer like slavery being rubbed in our collective noses? Why, the convicted felon wonders, does the Smithsonian have to focus on "how bad slavery was?"

Ha, ha, ha. I was just kidding. All three of those are real. In that they really issued forth from an administration flailing desperately to cover up the attention being paid to connection between its leader and the client list of notorious pedophile Jeffery Epstein. This particular show is taking the place of the embarrassing shadow play of a "summit" with Putin the Puppetmaster, or the National Guard being sent into the terror-filled squalor that is our nation's capitol. The reasoning on that one seems a little sketchy, since the last attack on our capitol was (checks notes) January 6, 2021 and the guy in charge that day refused to send troops to protect Congress from the angry mobs attempting to take over the building. 

But that's history. The kind of thing that you might see in a museum. If you were living in a country that was alternately proud and ashamed of its past. One of the major accomplishments of the past two hundred fifty years was the foundational principles that kept our country on track for two and a half centuries. We added amendments to the documents that didn't seems to cover all the eventualities covered as our brains and realities grew. Letting women vote. Abolishing slavery. A woman's right to choose. 

Sorry. I was just joking about that last one. 

See? History can be fun!