5 museum-grade cartoons about Trump's Smithsonian purge | The Week

This cartoon shows buildings and monuments with new names in Washington DC. They are called: &ldquo;Confederate Statuary Garden&rdquo;, &ldquo;Caucasian History Museum&rdquo;, &ldquo;Make Slavery Great Again Museum&rdquo;, &ldquo;White Artists Portrait Gallery&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Gallery of Under-Appreciated White Guys.&rdquo; Two people are here and one says to the other, &ldquo;The Smithsonian&rsquo;s changed since Trump became president.&rdquo;

This Donald Trump cartoon depicts Trump making changes to exhibits at the Smithsonian with his black pen. A slave auction becomes &ldquo;Free Market Capitalism.&rdquo; A slave with a brutally whip-scarred back is now &ldquo;Love Taps.&rdquo; A whip is called &ldquo;Workplace morale booster&rdquo;. A ball and chains is called &ldquo;employee retention device&rdquo; and a slave ship is labelled &ldquo;Luxury cruise ship.&rdquo; Trump says, &ldquo;Better!&rdquo;

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