Last month, Donald Trump’s administration sent work crews to the President’s House Site in Philadelphia. The goal was to remove all display panels that showed signs of slavery from the former home of presidents George Washington and John Adams. But the city sued the administration and won in such a resounding fashion that even the Trump federal judge called the move nothing short of dystopian.
CNN reports that US District Judge Cynthia Rufe said in her ruling, “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.” The ruling came hot on the heels of Trump once again scrambling to find creative ways to prove that he’s not racist, following his latest gaffe involving the Obamas.
