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Trump Escalates Attacks Against Smithsonian Museums
Anderson Cooper 360
Aug 20, 2025

President Trump calls the Smithsonian museum "out of control," in part, he says, because of its focus on "how bad slavery was." Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University talks with Anderson about the President's latest comments.