'Ignorance is Strength': Judge shuts down Trump's history re-write in devastating ruling
February 17, 2026
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as posted by the channelRachel Maddow shares highlights from a judge's remarks in rejecting Donald Trump's power to dismantle a national monument i Philadelphia to hide the fact that George Washington owned slaves. The judge compared Trump's censorious "anti-woke" edict to the mission of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984.
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