Comment on Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary

ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Under an executive order issued in January, the president has started to churn out his own approved version of US history that professional historians fear will resort to the tried and tested authoritarian playbook of airbrushing out inconvenient and inglorious chapters that do not align with his vision of American greatness.

The executive order is literally just planning for celebrating the 250th anniversary, and this is the whole of the reasoning behind the alarmist headline. But it’s all okay, since getting people to hate Trump more is the goal, so if you have to bend the truth a bit over your knee to achieve that, who can blame you right?

“Journalism”

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