Students learning about the Trump era gonna think we dumb as fuck

You think history students have it bad.

Imagine lawyers post-Trump. Well, according to established case law minus 2025-2029...

Guessing it will be called The Stupid Ages, or maybe The Antichrist Years, depending on who is in charge.

If it's like before, eventually it'll be just a vague "things were bad" like the gilded age or great depression. Humans aren't great at learning big picture things.

bold of you to assume there will still be students, history, or future

My face when my kids will have to do a report on Doge Coin.

Bold assumption that our descendants will have the kind of general education that would result in what we think of "extra homework" for "history students". I imagine a future scholar to be like Kenneth from 30 Rock

Wasn't history supposed to end mid 20th century?

Optimistic of you to be so sure they'll be studying history at all in the future.

Trump is trying to make it easier for history students by deleting all mention of racism and other forms of discrimination

All you young ones just wait until you get corrected in twenty years by someone like you because they didn't live it and think they know more about it than you.

I might suggest that rather than saying people are dumb for having made certain decisions, that we should ask ourselves how the opinions that led to those decisions were formed. There are always external factors acting on and influencing our agency.

It’s an outrageously optimistic hope of mine that there will be any students around to study history

So... the US president was part of a child eating cult-like sex trafficking net that was actually managed by moSS*d. Countries around the world that stump into that information used it to blackmail him.

At one point, the info got partially leaked, but he was kept in power for some reason.

First: that wont ever make it to a history book

Second: i wonder how many times things like this happened... this cabt be the first one

They're already gonna have a hard time recovering all the history deliberately destroyed by the administration.

He thinks there will be a future

My high school US history class spent like two weeks on the revolutionary war, half a class on everything that happened up to the civil war, two or three weeks on the civil war, half a class on the rest of the 19th century, like a week on WWII, the roaring 20's and dusbowl 30's got a week, and the rest of the class was World War 2, the 4 years that made up 60% of our 250 year history.

I have two hypotheses for why it was like that and they're not mutually exclusive:

1. WWII ends on a very boastful note for the USA. The defeat of not one but two objectively evil empires through both military and industrial might, that and having basically none of the fighting on our soil meant we came out of the war powerful and rich, eclipsing Great Britain as the superpower in the west. Almost immediately after that, history gets a lot less flattering.

2. The boomers were in charge of setting the school curriculum circa 2002, and by their logic "Then World War 2 happened, and then I was born, and then stuff I personally remember happened, and because I personally remember it, it isn't "history" therefore we don't have to teach it. You learn about Upton Sinclair in history class, you learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis by watching the news, that's just how it is."

People about to have dissertation topics for the next 2 centuries.

Realistically, for anything earlier than university level, classes don't have more time to cover additional material every few years, so new material being covered in class pushes out something that had previously been covered. Or it further abbreviates how much is taught about therm.

History students will continue to learn about some random battle of Jamestown in 1023 BC