Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Donald Trump’s Alarming Attempt To Erase History By Forcing The Smithsonian To Remove Him From The Impeachment Exhibit

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on Donald Trump’s gross misuse of presidential power to try to rewrite history by forcing the Smithsonian to remove him from the impeachment exhibit at the American History Museum. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

We all know that Donald Trump loves to rewrite and erase parts of history he doesn’t like, yesterday we saw a shameful new low.

Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump quietly forced the Smithsonian to remove him from the impeachment exhibit at the American History Museum.

You can’t make this up. This is a man rewriting history – or thinking he can rewrite history. He can't, but he thinks he can.

He is censoring the American History Museum. It’s Orwellian. It’s downright Orwellian. It’s something you’d see in an authoritarian regime. It’s something the head of North Korea would do – not America.

And quite frankly, it’s sad, it’s pathetic, but it's beyond that.

Donald Trump is so egotistical – he is so angry that he is the only president in American history to be impeached twice – that he wants to try and change the past, change the truth, and trade history for propaganda.

But Donald Trump, you can't change history. You can't avoid the truth. History will haunt you. You are the only president to be impeached twice. You can run, but you cannot hide the from the judgment of history.

So, here’s my message to the president: no matter what exhibits you try to distort, the American people will never forget that you were impeached – not once, but twice.

The American people want Donald Trump to focus on lowering their costs.

Not rewriting history about his impeachments, not building an extravagant ballroom at the White House – raising $200 million from his cronies for it, and who knows what they get in return – not covering up the Epstein scandal.

But, as always, Donald Trump’s priorities are way off from what the American people need and want.

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