Monday, June 16, 2025

Camping out at Manzanar

One of Trump’s endless and bizarre Executive Orders mandated that National Parks and National Monuments say only positive things about the American past.  Trump believes in sugarcoating (or should I say “whitewashing”) any bad things in our history.  Somehow I guess he thinks that will make us more “patriotic.”  It just makes us ridiculous.


Our daughter was speculating on how the Manzanar internment camp for Japanese-Americans would handle this requirement.  We have visited Manzanar, and it is a bleak place in a dry area of California, hot and miserable in the summer; cold and miserable in the winter.  It will be a challenge, but here what she suggested Trump might use for interpretive material.


“Camping out in the desert”

“Fun times in the Sierras”

“Stay rent free in cabins”


I don’t know how they will handle Little Bighorn, or the Trail of Tears, or the war against the Modocs.  Who voted for this idiot?  

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