CNN host Abby Phillip ripped into President Donald Trump’s claim that the “woke” Smithsonian focuses too much on the evils of slavery.
Trump, 79, made the complaint in a social media post on Tuesday, writing, “Everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been—Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”
He wrote that he had instructed his attorneys to go through the national museums to eliminate “OUT OF CONTROL” wokeness, without specifying which museums he was targeting or which types of exhibits he opposed.
Phillip began that evening’s episode of her show by calling out the president for pushing the same “shocking” argument that a panelist made on NewsNight last week: that museums