Trump keeps using the threat of withholding federal funds until someone does what he wants them to do. In this case, he forced the D.C. mayor to have the mural destroyed and rename the park Liberty Plaza.
This form of coercion in a president is immoral and reprehensible. We should not stand for it.
This form of coercion in a president is immoral and reprehensible. We should not stand for it.
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@clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza, the day after construction crews began removing its mural.
“Symbols are not just symbols,” he writes. This is “part of a movement that is removing Black people” from power.
“Symbols are not just symbols,” he writes. This is “part of a movement that is removing Black people” from power.
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