Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
An influx of tourists visiting Philadelphia in the lead-up to the city’s Semiquincentennial festivities find themselves confronted with large gaps of brick wall at the President’s House site, where exhibits about slavery were removed by order of President Donald Trump.
The gaps are evidence of the partisan battle playing out over how to tell the complicated story of America’s founding.
Ahead of the 250th, both Philadelphians who have been engaged in the fight to protect historical exhibits, and tourists who have wandered through the President’s House for the first time, have lamented the Trump administration’s changes to the exhibit, which was largely dismantled by the administration earlier this year.
Tourists told The Inquirer that the missing panels, such as those that discuss the brutality of slavery, do a significant disservice to understanding the full picture — even the ugly parts — of U.S. history.
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An influx of tourists visiting Philadelphia in the lead-up to the city’s Semiquincentennial festivities find themselves confronted with large gaps of brick wall at the President’s House site, where exhibits about slavery were removed by order of President Donald Trump.
The gaps are evidence of the partisan battle playing out over how to tell the complicated story of America’s founding.
Ahead of the 250th, both Philadelphians who have been engaged in the fight to protect historical exhibits, and tourists who have wandered through the President’s House for the first time, have lamented the Trump administration’s changes to the exhibit, which was largely dismantled by the administration earlier this year.
Tourists told The Inquirer that the missing panels, such as those that discuss the brutality of slavery, do a significant disservice to understanding the full picture — even the ugly parts — of U.S. history.
Read the full story: inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/presidents-house-250th-tourism-philadelphia-20260702.html?utm_campaign=edit_youtube_traffic&int_promo=newsroom
📝 by Fallon Roth and Andrea Padilla / Staff
📹 by Andrew Thayer / For The Inquirer
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