Critics see Trump attacks on 'Black Smithsonian' as effort to sanitize racism in US history

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : "I'm deeply proud that we now have a museum that honors the millions of African American men and women who built our national heritage, especially when it comes to faith, culture and the unbreakable American spirit," Trump said after a tour that included Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, both of whom are Black.
64% : Trump's war on 'woke' targets history Trump won his comeback White House bid with a notable uptick in support from nonwhite voters, especially among younger Black and Hispanic men.
56% : Top Republican says Missouri House poised to resurrect abortion ban "It seems like we're headed in the direction where there's even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed, or that Jim Crow laws and segregation and racial violence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred," said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.
55% : Trump visited the African American museum in 2017.
49% : Critics argued the order is the latest move by the Trump administration to quash recognition of Black Americans' contributions to the nation and to gloss over the legal, political, social and economic obstacles they have faced.
48% : " Trump once praised the 'Black Smithsonian' The African American museum, one of 21 distinct Smithsonian entities, opened along the National Mall in 2016, the last year that President Barack Obama held office as the nation's first Black chief executive.
39% : Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders sharply rebuked Trump for his order, entitled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."
27% : In February, Trump fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., a champion of racial diversity in the military, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
20% : " Since his Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump banned diversity initiatives across the federal government.
18% : Trump long criticized the removal of Confederate monuments, a movement that gained steam after the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis prompted nationwide protests.
18% : Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., suggested Trump wants to distort the national narrative to racist ends.
12% : " Trump also ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to determine if any monuments since January 2020 "have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history" or "inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures."

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