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Ayanna Pressley: “Donald Trump is working overtime to turn our museums into…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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Thank you. Our shared American history. Our shared American history is under attack. Donald Trump is working overtime to turn our museums into instruments of MAGA propaganda rather than places where American people and visitors from around the world can encounter our factual history. I had the privilege this weekend of visiting the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, a Smithsonian affiliate. And what I took in there was factual. It was powerful. (00:07–00:21)

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Asserts that Donald Trump is attempting to use museums for MAGA propaganda.

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