A Fox News pundit went on an unhinged rant likening the history of slavery in America to plane crashes Sunday while defending President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian Institution.
The president raged this week that the museum complex dwells on “how horrible our Country is, how bad slavery was,” instead of celebrating “brightness.”
Speaking on his show Media Buzz on Sunday, host Howard Kurtz said Trump “had to know that using that phrase about slavery would spark an enormous backlash.”
“I think he’s right,” Fox News contributor Clay Travis responded.
The conservative radio host argued that Trump wants the nations museums to reflect the country’s “soaring aspirations and goals,” as opposed to “the things that America has done wrong,” before launching into a bizarre comparison