President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is below fireplace and dealing with a livid backlash after posting a hyperlink to an incredulous White Home press launch honoring freedom fighter and well-known Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman.
On the 116th anniversary of Tubman’s loss of life on March 10, 1913, the White Home posted a glowing testomony on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, to her braveness, bravery, and perseverance in serving to information and free as many as 70 enslaved individuals from the South after she herself threw off her chains in 1849 and escaped on the age of 27.
The tribute detailed Tubman’s “indelible mark on our nationwide story,” explaining how she returned to the South time and again, risking seize and loss of life, to assist different enslaved individuals attain free states.
She additionally served as a spy for the Union Military through the Civil Struggle as a result of she traveled by means of the wilderness and knew the paths, utilizing the North Star as a information, main individuals to freedom. She by no means misplaced anybody throughout her many journeys north to freedom, the press launch famous.
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The issue with the White Home tribute isn’t the respect itself. It’s greater than effectively deserved for an iconic and mythic heroine of Tubman’s stature.
The issue is that Trump ordered Tubman’s picture and a quote stripped from a Nationwide Park Service webpage in April of 2025, in response to CNN, amid rightfully deserved fury as his administration started eradicating the accomplishments of everybody besides white males from authorities databases and web sites below the guise of anti-woke and anti-DEI insurance policies.
Leavitt posted a “Presidential Message Celebrating the Lifetime of Harriet Tubman” on her X account after the White Home revealed the press launch on Tubman on Tuesday, March 10.
“As we speak, in her honor, we renew our resolve to uphold the braveness, conviction, and religion that she lived by and which have outlined our Nation for 250 superb years.” – @POTUS
Social media went scorched earth on Leavitt, calling out her hypocrisy and the administration she represents. Many flooded the replies with screenshots of a information article about Tubman’s removing from the Nationwide Service webpage. It has since been changed.
“How about in the present day in her honor you place again her references within the Nationwide Parks you f-cking racist previous girl,” X consumer JAWSolyn angily demanded.
X consumer Mark Mascoe agreed, “That’s loopy, the final time I checked he was eradicating any point out of Harriet Tubman and different black historical past from authorities web sites. The hypocrisy is astounding.”
However that wasn’t the one downside with Trump and Leavitt’s glowing Tubman tribute.
In 2019, throughout Trump’s first time period in workplace, his Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin introduced a maintain on placing Tubman on U.S. forex. The choice to overtake the $20 in Tubman’s picture was made by former President Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
X consumer Keisha Harper, along with many others, by no means forgot.
“If we’re honoring Harriet Tubman, let’s comply with by means of. The redesign to place Tubman on the $20 invoice was introduced in 2016 and delayed in 2019. Recognition isn’t simply phrases. It’s an motion. Transfer ahead with the $20 redesign.”
Mnuchin’s resolution was to attend till not less than 2028 to vary U.S. forex.
