Hakeem Jeffries Likens Trump To A ‘Racial Arsonist’

President Donald Trump’s plot to control American history got a sharp takedown from a top Democrat on Sunday.

Last Tuesday, the president raged about the “out of control” and “woke” Smithsonian Institution in a post on Truth Social, complaining how its museums only focused on how “horrible our Country is” and “bad Slavery was.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) scoffed at Trump’s suggestion that there was any upside to depict about slavery as he spoke to Dana Bash during a stop by CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“There is no good aspect of slavery, and so Donald Trump is once again behaving like a racial arsonist,” he said, adding that it was “extraordinary that he would make such a historically ignorant statement.”

Putting his full support behind the institution, Jeffries said, “The Smithsonian should continue to hold the line and make sure that this very painful part of American history is not erased, but is understood by everyone across this country and throughout the world.”

While the president has no direct control over the Smithsonian, which is governed by a Board of Regents that includes Vice President JD Vance, Trump said he had instructed his attorneys to review the collections across its 21 museums and 14 research centers.

Days later, the official White House website put up an article titled “President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian,” which put a spotlight on artwork, exhibits and performances it found objectionable.

The list highlighted a National Portrait Gallery campaign aiming to make its collection less “wealthy, pale, and male,” exhibits exploring the LGBTQ experience and a painting of migrants crossing the southern border, among others.