Donald J Goebbels Ministry of Propaganda

The president went on a social media tirade last month deriding the Smithsonian museums as places where “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.”

The argument, as the White House makes it, is that Trump simply wants art to promote patriotic American values. But what the administration is really engaging in is censorship. And increasingly, the target is a familiar one: immigrants.

After the president’s rant, the White House website proudly proclaimed that “President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian.” Among the evidence cited was “a [sic] exhibit at the American History Museum” that “depicts migrants watching Independence Day fireworks ‘through an opening in the U.S.-Mexico border wall.”’

Oh, the horror.

  The Bulwark