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nigelswift
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A whole White House department resigns!
Aug 19, 2017, 07:43
Every member of The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has just resigned. Their letter says:

"Supremacy, discrimination and vitriol are not American values. Your values are not American values. We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear to you, we call on you to resign your office too. "
Rhiannon
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Re: A whole White House department resigns!
Aug 19, 2017, 14:48
He's such a philistine he's probably never heard of them. But good for them.

Also I saw it pointed out in the independent that the first letter of the paragraphs in their letter reads RESIST, which is quite amusing.

https://twitter.com/kalpenn/status/898547257062174724/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fus-politics%2Ftrump-arts-committee-members-resign-charlottesville-protest-kal-penn-letter-a7901211.html
Rhiannon
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Re: A whole White House department resigns!
Aug 19, 2017, 14:56
oh and apparently Trump was going to disband the committee anyway. Like long before they got uppity. So like, you can't resign because I'm sacking you. Didn't he do that to the business people's committee the other day, too? He's going to run out of people to sack soon. It's all very bizarre.
Stevo
Stevo
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Re: A whole White House department resigns!
Aug 23, 2017, 13:42
Funny, I heard taht and then started watching the Netflix show Designatedd Survivor where the spokesman for the real resigning Arts council becomes the Press Spokesman/Communications director for the fictional President.
Seemed pretty synchronous or something, but I think it's a pretty new show so presumably other people have seen something similar.
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