God damn them all to hell.

The National Park Service has taken down an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Interior Department said on Thursday, following President Trump’s directive to remove materials that promote “corrosive ideology.”

What corrosive ideology would that be? The one that doesn’t try to deny the fact that the US was a slaveholding nation for its first three centuries? Is it really more corrosive to admit it than it is to lie about it? No, it damn well is not.

The outdoor exhibit, called “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation,” memorialized nine people enslaved by George Washington at the President’s House Site, where the first president once lived. The exhibit “examines the paradox between slavery and freedom in the founding of the nation,” according to a description on the Park Service website.

See the famous Samuel Johnson remark: “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”

The move follows an executive order issued by Mr. Trump in March 2025 instructing the Park Service, a part of the Interior Department, to review materials at national sites to ensure they “focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people” and do not “inappropriately disparage Americans.”

Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative eh wot?

Bad idea. Terrible idea. Very Trumpian idea. Boast loudly at all times and never admit mistakes or cruelties or harms. Terrible idea because if you don’t admit the flaws you won’t fix them. That certainly is how Trump operates, and look at the result.

The removal of the exhibit comes amid a broader effort by the Trump administration to de-emphasize Black history. The National Park Service has removed merchandise related to diversity, equity and inclusion from its gift shops, and cut Martin Luther King’s Birthday and Juneteenth, two holidays honoring Black history, from its list of free entrance days this year.

Ugh. Those horrible spiteful fucks.