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'Ignorance is Strength': Judge shuts down Trump's history re-write in devastating ruling

Podcast: The Rachel Maddow Show
Published: Feb 17, 2026
Duration seconds: 2634
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Summary

Rachel Maddow shares highlights from a judge's remarks in rejecting Donald Trump's power to dismantle a national monument i Philadelphia to hide the fact that George Washington owned slaves. The judge compared Trump's censorious "anti-woke" edict to the mission of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984.