45 h. ago Stephen King shares theory about how Donald Trump will be remembered in history

Author is outspoken critic of president and recently called presidency ‘horror story’

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3 d. ago Pentagon is reinstalling portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that includes a slave

An Army spokesperson said that under the revived instructions of President Trump, they were not prepared to ‘erase’ history

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5 d. ago Trump’s history of praising Pam Bondi after awkward remark about attorney general’s appearance

President Trump says his political career would ‘end’ if he said his highly accomplished attorney general and long time supporter was ‘beautiful’

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7 d. ago Handshakes and hope but little progress: a short history of Trump

US president is keen for a fourth meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but has little to show from the previous three encountersDonald Trump’s unshakeable belief in his ability as a peacemaker has raised the prospect of another attempt to solve one of the world’s most implacable crises: North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons.During an occasionally fractious meeting with Lee Jae Myung in the White House on Monday, Trump did at least agree with South Korea’s liberal president on the need to engage with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Federal Reserve governor 'fired' by Trump issues scathing rebuke claiming president has no authority over central bank

Cook's sacking was the first in the 111-year history of the Federal Reserve, as Trump all but guaranteed a replacement that would back the president's calls to slash interest rates.

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9 d. ago Trump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century

The United Daughters of the Confederacy set out to make slavery respectable again by promoting ‘the lost cause’It should surprise no one that former cast members from reality shows that ran for more than 15 seasons are running out of new material. Days ago, Donald Trump, former star of NBC’s The Apprentice and current US president, posted a lengthy Truth Social rant in which he (again) threatened the country’s leading cultural institutions to adhere to his political ideology. The target was one he has had in his crosshairs before – the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) – which Trump called “OUT OF CONTROL” in his post. “Everything discussed [in NMAAHC exhibits] is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was,” Trump unloaded. “WOKE IS BROKE,” he continued through his customary use of all caps and misplaced capitalization of common nouns. “We have the HOTTEST Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our M...

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2 w. ago Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors

Exclusive: Public comments show that a crackdown on signs ‘disparaging’ Americans is not popularAs part of his administration’s war on “woke”, Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a world view without inconvenient historical facts, comments submitted from national parks and seen by the Guardian show.Notices have been erected at every National Park Service (NPS) site, which spans 433 national parks, monuments and battlefields, following an order from May entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, issued by Trump’s department of the interior (DOI). The president had demanded a crackdown on any material that “inappropriately disparages Americans”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump and Putin greet with handshake at historic summit on Ukraine ceasefire deal

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sat with their respective delegrations in front of a blue backdrop with words ‘Pursuing Peace’

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2 w. ago 'Leaving Trump alone with Putin is like sending a piñata to a baseball bat convention'

The world would do well to remember history - In Helsinki, 2018, Donald Trump emerged from his meeting with Putin looking like a man who’d just been hypnotised by a slippery snake oil salesman

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2 w. ago The murder capital of the US and a former mayor on crack: DC’s history of crime problems

The president’s depiction of Washington, D.C. as a violent, crime-ridden cesspit is nothing new

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2 w. ago Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs | Rafael Behr

In Alaska the Russian leader will claim to want peace, but only on his terms – and play on the president’s desperation to ‘make a deal’ quicklyWars do not have to be won. Total victories loom largest in the popular imagination because those are the stories nations always tell to sustain patriotic feeling. The fuller version of history is written in stalemates.That is worth remembering when Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. Both leaders have incentives to pretend that Ukraine’s fate can be settled decisively without any Ukrainians at the negotiating table. That doesn’t make it so. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago White House orders a review of exhibits at Smithsonian museums ahead of nation's 250th birthday

The White House is ordering a review of the Smithsonian museums to align content with President Donald Trump's interpretation of American history

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3 w. ago Emma Thompson jokes she could’ve ‘changed American history’ by saying yes to Trump

The ‘Nanny McPhee’ star said Trump got her phone number by ‘stalking’

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3 w. ago Love Actually: Emma Thompson says she could’ve ‘changed the course of American history’ by saying yes to Trump

The ‘Nanny McPhee’ star said Trump got her phone number by ‘stalking’

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3 w. ago Stephen Colbert: ‘What you thought you knew is just history’

Late-night hosts discuss Trump administration’s erasure of US history and attempts to cover up bad numbers from the Bureau of Labor StatisticsLate-night hosts dig into Donald Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner and an unnerving story about radioactive wasps. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Smithsonian says it will restore Trump impeachment exhibits in ‘coming weeks’

Museum denies Trump pressured it to remove references amid concerns that history was being whitewashedThe Smithsonian will include Donald Trump’s two impeachments in an updated presentation “in the coming weeks” after references to them were removed, the museum said in a statement Saturday.That statement from the Washington DC museum also denied that the Trump administration pressured the Smithsonian to remove the references to his impeachments during his first presidency. Continue reading...

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