President Donald Trump has targeted U.S. cultural and historical institutions – from museums to monuments to national parks - to remove what he calls "anti-American" ideology. TRUMP COMMENTS ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND SLAVERYLast August, Trump decried in a social media post what he said was an excessive focus on "how bad slavery was." In a January interview with the New York Times, he said civil rights protections hurt white people, when asked about policies that followed from the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The NAACP, the largest U.S. civil rights group, said Trump's remarks were laying the groundwork to roll back social progress. Civil rights groups say such moves undermine the acknowledgment of critical phases of American history.

Source: The Standard March 25, 2026 18:23 UTC