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Trump Says California Schools That Teach 1619 Project Will Not be Funded

Trump Says California Schools That Teach 1619 Project Will Not be Funded

Trump, the Snowflakeyest of All Snowflakes, Threatens to Defund California Schools for Implementing 1619 Project Curriculum



Despite all of their lamenting of how “overly sensitive” this new generation is, white conservatives are and have always been the most fragile people to walk this here Earth—and Donald Trump is their president. Oh, Trump may not be as smart as some of these ivy league Republicans wish he was, but he still represents their most treasured value: Protect whiteness at all cost.

Trump—whose answer to everything that displeases him is to threaten to “withhold funding” from said thing—is now going all defunder-in-chief on California schools because he heard they would be implementing the New York Times’ Pulitzer-Prize winning collection 1619 Project into their curriculum.


For those who don’t know, the 1619 Project is a project directed by Nikole Hannah-Jones that “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
On Sunday, the whiny white supremacist dipped in Tang that y’all call president responded to a random Twitter post claiming California “has implemented the 1619 [P]project into the public schools” and that “soon you won’t recognize [America],” by tweeting, “Department of Education is looking at this. if so, they will not be funded.” CONTINUE READING: Trump Says California Schools That Teach 1619 Project Will Not be Funded