The National Archives, literally the keeper of history, "photoshopped" photos of anti-trump protest

[EleanorR]

WTF!

Link to tweet

[exboyfil]

1. Winston Smith would be proud

The National Archive?????

We are real close to a failed state.

[justhanginon]

2. All the hallmarks of a blooming dictatorship.

Dictators want to control the message even when in a historical setting. Little steps like this are consequential for the country in the long term.

[brush]

3. Explain.

[dalton99a]

4. Just like in motherland Russia

[malaise]

5. Off to the greatest page

Whoever authorized this should be fired

[spanone]

6. THIS should be a crime.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Who ordered it? Trump?

[EleanorR]

8. We should flood social media with our pictures from that march

The more pictures of anti-trump signs the better!!

[Kid Berwyn]

9. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Double Thinkers want to control the past for some reason.

[EleanorR]

10. Here's a place to register a complaint!

https://www.archives.gov/contact

[cutroot]

27. I sent one

No response yet. The trump lover that approved this hasn't claimed responsibility yet.

[UniteFightBack]

11. This shall not pass. nt

[CaptYossarian]

12. They could have gone with the sparsely populated Inauguration "crowd".

Reminds me of FOX showing the "mob" rioting in Madison because of Scott Wanker. Unfortunately, the streets were lined with palm trees. Think--Madison, Wisconsin--in February. The unrest they showed was after Rodney King in LA.

Pure FOXaganda. And now our archives are corrupted.

[TNNurse]

13. Work done by frauds.

Not really an Archive if they adapt the images and words. Wonder what else they have been doing????

[ManiacJoe]

14. This is not an archive image.

This image is an show/exhibit image.
Still not acceptable....

[VOX]

15. You mean, it's not the actual print that's stored in the Archives?

Then yes, you’re correct, the Archives censored the display image only. But as you suggest, it’s a “bad look” for THE nonpartisan government entity (that’s dedicated to preserving factual history) to alter any images associated with their exhibits, or for any other reason.

[aikoaiko]

26. Correct.

[Ms. Toad]

16. They have acknowledged their mistake

and removed the photograph.

Link to tweet

I think they need to do more (such as explain why they made their initial decision to blur Trump's name and articulate steps they have taken to ensure it does not happen in the future.

[malaise]

18. Mistake?

That was not a mistake - that was deliberate fraud

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Absent In The Explanation...

...is why it was altered at all.
That required use of taxpayer funded resources for obvious political reasons.
Also, what controversy is caused by an accurately shown photo?
This smells like rotting garbage!

[malaise]

22. It smells like rotten garbage because it is

rotten garbage.

[Ms. Toad]

23. As I said i my post:

I think they need to do more (such as explain why they made their initial decision to blur Trump's name and articulate steps they have taken to ensure it does not happen in the future.

[malaise]

25. +1,000 n/t

[RandiFan1290]

21. "mistake"

Nice try

[Ms. Toad]

24. As I said in my post:

I think they need to do more (such as explain why they made their initial decision to blur Trump's name and articulate steps they have taken to ensure it does not happen in the future.

[NCLefty]

17. If you anger him (in his mind), you lost your govermenent job. They know this.

It's almost hard to blame them, even though it's so shameful.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Must not offend Herr Fuhrer.