It's Thursday, August 21st.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show that is offering you,
our listeners and viewers, another episode of our continuing series, People Booing Republicans.
In this case, it's Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth and Vice President J.D.
Vance enjoying a warm welcome from people at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station.
That's one of the great things about our nation's capital.
You could be heading to your train to New York or Charlottesville on a Wednesday morning and have the chance to boo the vice president along the way.
On today's show,
the Israeli military says it's calling up 60,000 reservists ahead of its expanded operation in Gaza City.
And the Trump administration takes an axe to the office of the director of national intelligence.
But let's start with our national museums.
President Donald Trump has a lot of opinions on America's museums and the Smithsonian Institute.
We know this because he keeps telling us.
Case in point, on Tuesday, Trump posted on True Social, quote, The Smithsonian is out of control,
where everything discussed is how horrible our country is,
how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.
Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.
Personally, I've always wanted a museum to tell me about the future,
like a history book for things that haven't happened yet.
But as you might know, this isn't empty rhetoric.