'Ignorance is Strength': Judge shuts down Trump's history re-write in devastating ruling
The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow, MS NOW
4.4 • 35.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to it. |
| 0:00.5 | Home for joining us this hour. |
| 0:01.3 | Really happy to have you here this President's Day. |
| 0:03.5 | Happy President's Day. |
| 0:05.2 | The first U.S. President to live in the White House was the second U.S. President. |
| 0:11.1 | It was John Adams. |
| 0:12.7 | John Adams moved into the White House in November of the year 1800. |
| 0:17.6 | Before that, while he was president, but before he moved into the White House, before the White House was complete, John Adams lived in Philly. |
| 0:28.0 | Both John Adams, the nation's second president and George Washington, the nation's first president, they both lived in Philadelphia in the 1790s while the U.S. Capitol and the White House were being built |
| 0:40.5 | in D.C. And that house in Philadelphia were both George Washington and John Adams lived while |
| 0:48.2 | they each served as president. That house has a really interesting story. |
| 1:03.7 | Accidentally, the last remaining walls of that house were by accident torn down in the 1950s. |
| 1:05.7 | That was the last standing portion of the house. |
| 1:08.7 | It was accidentally demolished in the 1950s. |
| 1:12.6 | Decades later, once archaeologists and historians figured out for sure where that president's house had been, the city got involved. They bought the land. They preserved |
| 1:19.5 | everything they could. And ultimately, that site was reopened as a national historic site. |
| 1:24.6 | Today, it is sort of an open-air pavilion where you can see the shape |
| 1:29.5 | of the President's House. You can see the foundations of the original building. They've got |
| 1:33.1 | artifacts there from the time that George Washington and John Adams lived in that house. |
| 1:38.7 | And while John Adams, who was from Massachusetts, while Adams was not a slaveholder, George Washington was. |
| 1:47.9 | George Washington had eight people who were enslaved to him, who he brought from Virginia |
| 1:54.9 | to that house in Philadelphia to serve him while he was president. |
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