A White House Advisor who is the head of President Trump Content review But Smeithsonian institution museum In Washington, instead of staying on previous mistakes, defended the move to focus on progress.
“The fact that our country was involved in slavery, is terrible – no one else thinks,” Lindsay Holigan, a special assistant to the President. Told Fox News in an interview Wednesday. “But when I was going through the museum, personally, what I was looking at was an overlapping on slavery, and I think there should be more overlapping on how far we have come since slavery.”
He said, “There is a lot of history for our country, both positive and negative, but we need to keep moving forward. We cannot just focus on negative – whatever divides us,” he said.
Trump started reviewing Smithsonian Museum ‘ Last week material And complained Tuesday in a social media post That museums were built Focus on negative aspects In the history of the country, including slavery.
“The museum in the whole of Washington, but all over the country, is essentially, the last remaining section of ‘Vok,’,” President wrote Social on truth. “Smithsonian is out of control, where everything is discussed, is how terrible our country is, how bad slavery is, and how unconscious – how stupid it is – nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future, nothing about the future.”
He said, “We have the ‘hottest’ country in the world, and we want people to talk about it, including our museums.”
Step steps Backlash from criticsThose who argued that the President was trying to make the distressed aspects of the past of the nation white. Also A departure marked From Trump’s public position on the role of Smithsonian less than a decade ago When he praised The then National Museum of African American History.
“It is a new, beautiful Smithsonian museum that serves as a bright example of the incredible contribution of African Americans in our culture, our society and our history,” he said during his first presidential post.
Holigan said that the museums should be extended to pride in the development of America.
“Regarding every other country in the world, the United States has a past,” she said. “We should be able to take our children, our students through Smithsonian and feel proud when we leave.”
