Trump says museums in DC are too 'woke' - We ask visitors

President Donald Trump has called for a review of Smithsonian museums, saying they focus too much on "how bad Slavery was".

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The BBC went to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC to ask visitors what they made of the president's comments and their experience of the exhibits inside.

Video filmed by Meiying Wu and Jason Aldag

Produced by Alex Foster

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