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President-elect Donald Trump is no longer expected to visit the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in observance of Martin Luther King Day, senior level transition sources tell ABC News.
Senior sources initially said Trump would visit the museum, but ABC has learned that the visit was removed from his calendar due to scheduling issues and was not fully planned out.
Trump is expected to visit the museum sometime after he assumes office, the sources say. He will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Washington, D.C., in another way, though details were not immediately available today.
News of the planned visit on Martin Luther King Day came Saturday as Trump drew ire from critics over a Twitter attack against Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-visit-smithsonian-african-american-history-museum-mlk/story?id=44782241
redwitch
(14,944 posts)Perhaps he was just afraid of the protests?
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)The Smithsonian said that someone from the transition team had inquired but had made no effort to schedule anything.
But ABC ran with it anyway.
chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)past and present.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Seriously thanks for the clarification, I was trying to figure out what t*rump had schedules at all from his golden toilet twitter room.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)ARE responsible in a big way, by spreading lies and fabrications created by Breitbart and alt-right sources as real investigated or at the least vetted information/news. The MSM in ameriKKKa is so pathetic. They will reap what they have sown...I see where the trumpfuhrer is considering throwing them out of white house to a secondary location...somewhere else, good.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Why ruin the perfect racist dogwhistling of his tweets about Lewis? Make no mistake, his repeated references to people of color in "crime infested" neighborhoods is nothing more than outright bigoted tropes.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)was all bullshit. Empty, phoney words like everything else about him.
There aren't enough words to describe how much I loathe this cretin.
Cha
(297,322 posts)racist he is by his tweets @ John Lewis.
4139
(1,893 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)frakenstein monster did cancel....he'd had better. Such an abomination foisted upon us by people of dubious intelligence, compassion and who are full of racist hate. Sad part is, those who DID NOT vote for this execration will suffer too, probably. Well I tell myself, suck it up and keep fighting every injustice created by our incoming racist-in-chief. I can imagine, given the russian reports, how he will observe MLK's birthday "in another way"....
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)The only time that I've seen Trump look like he was laughing was when Don King said the n-word.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Have to have priorities, now.