{"id":40589,"date":"2025-05-04T12:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/historians-alarmed-as-trump-seeks-to-rewrite-us-story-for-250th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T12:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:07:41","slug":"historians-alarmed-as-trump-seeks-to-rewrite-us-story-for-250th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/historians-alarmed-as-trump-seeks-to-rewrite-us-story-for-250th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignorance no barrier as president begins to put out approved version of history that ignores American failures<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, it could be said, takes a breezy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Sam-Cooke\">Sam Cooke<\/a> style approach to history.<\/p>\n<p>Like the legendary \u201cking of soul\u201d in his 1960 hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R4GLAKEjU4w\">Wonderful World<\/a>, the US president has admitted to not knowing much about historical events or figures of the past \u2013 even when faced with authorities on the subject.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/04\/trump-us-250th-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignorance no barrier as president begins to put out approved version of history that ignores American failures Donald Trump, it could be said, takes a breezy, Sam Cooke style approach to history. Like the legendary \u201cking of soul\u201d in his 1960 hit Wonderful World, the US president has admitted to not knowing much about historical &#8230; <a title=\"Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/historians-alarmed-as-trump-seeks-to-rewrite-us-story-for-250th-anniversary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}