--- title: President Obama: Donald Trump Should Visit History Museum description: President Obama criticized Donald Trump and said he should visit the new African American history museum. canonical: https://time.com/4505653/president-obama-donald-trump-african-american-history-museum/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-23T14:09:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:47:27.122Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama: Donald Trump Should Visit History Museum og:description: "What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress" og:url: https://time.com/4505653/president-obama-donald-trump-african-american-history-museum/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt538355296995cd2d/6988a7460a4a22c9fd9cb63f/obama_national_endowment_arts_african_american_museum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4017 og:image:height: 2260 og:image:alt: Barack Obama og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Obama: Donald Trump Should Visit History Museum twitter:description: "What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt538355296995cd2d/6988a7460a4a22c9fd9cb63f/obama_national_endowment_arts_african_american_museum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Obama Wants Donald Trump to Visit New African American History Museum > Sponsored content. 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Susan Walsh—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 23, 2016 2:09 PM UTC President Obama thinks Donald Trump could learn a thing or two from the [Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture](http://time.com/4487318/smithsonian-museum-african-american-history-culture/?iid=sr-link2) in Washington, D.C. “What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress in the future,” Obama said in an [ABC interview](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-walks-line-law-order-empathy-blacks-42300286) from the [new museum](http://time.com/4494067/artifacts-national-museum-african-american-history/), encouraging Trump to visit after it opens on Saturday. Obama also criticized Trump for saying that “African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape than they’ve ever been in before, ever, ever, ever.” “I think even most 8-year-olds would tell you that whole slavery thing wasn’t very good for black people. Jim Crow wasn’t very good for black people,” the President said. Trump has been making a controversial [pitch to black voters](http://time.com/4502754/donald-trump-black-church-voters-cleveland/?xid=tcoshare), and his comments this week came amid clashes between protesters and police after two shootings of black men in [Charlotte](http://time.com/4505325/charlotte-protests-keith-lamont-scott/?xid=homepage) and [Tulsa](http://time.com/4505101/terence-crutcher-tulsa-betty-shelby-manslaughter-charge/?xid=homepage). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4505653/president-obama-donald-trump-african-american-history-museum/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4505653/president-obama-donald-trump-african-american-history-museum/"},"headline":"President Obama Wants Donald Trump to Visit New African American History Museum","datePublished":"2016-09-23T14:09:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:47:27.122Z","description":"\"What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress\"","url":"https://time.com/4505653/president-obama-donald-trump-african-american-history-museum/","keywords":["Barack Obama","White House","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt538355296995cd2d/6988a7460a4a22c9fd9cb63f/obama_national_endowment_arts_african_american_museum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt538355296995cd2d/6988a7460a4a22c9fd9cb63f/obama_national_endowment_arts_african_american_museum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Barack Obama","caption":"President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 22, 2016.","creditText":"Susan Walsh—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4505653/president-obama-donald-trump-african-american-history-museum/","name":"President Obama Wants Donald Trump to Visit New African American History Museum"}}]}] ```