Posted on 07/10/2026 12:26:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump administration exposes institution's progressive bias
The nation’s largest group of scholars says a taxpayer-funded family museum must include an exhibit that features a sadomasochistic crotch harness, pages from a 6-year-old girl’s diary that depict her yearning to grow a penis, video clips of drag queens and a magazine promoting female masturbation.
The Organization of American Historians also supports exhibits that describe “Mickey Mouse as a vestige of long-standing traditions of blackface minstrelsy,” the ukulele as “a product of U.S. imperialism” and Wild West shows as turning the “subjugation of Indigenous people into theater.”
Those are just a few of the displays at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, and they are depicted in the White House’s report “Saving America’s Story,” released on July Fourth. Naturally, a group of elitist liberal historians is rejecting the White House’s assessment.
The Organization of American Historians blasted the Trump administration for presenting a partisan ideological attack on the Smithsonian. In a statement, it accused the White House of ignoring decades of scholarship and trying to “erase the conflict, struggle and diversity — the complexity — that have always defined the American experience.”
Yet that was not the goal of the 162-page report, which was produced by the White House Domestic Policy Council. It argues that the Smithsonian is largely critical of American history and “no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated.”
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has reframed America’s founding as evil and depicted the worst parts of our nation’s Founders. Christopher Columbus was described as a “murderer,” “slaver” and “thief.” In the Benjamin Franklin exhibit, 20% of the space was devoted to “Enslaved People” and questioned whether Franklin conducted electric shock experiments on slaves,...
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We need a complete purge of Democrats from all institutions public and private.
I, for one, am quite finished with the idea that “experts” (most of whom are self-appointed) know best about anything cultural or political. Engineering and physical sciences may be different, but from the Covid situation in 2020 through the present, we have ample evidence that the so-called experts either don’t know their ass from the elbow, or they are so highly biased that we need to be rid of them (in terms of employment of, or reliance on, them). This is the (Leftist) Education-Industrial complex at its worst.
If these America-hating characters are in charge of the Smithsonian, its time to defund it.
Who has the authority of fire members of the Smithsonian staff?
How appropriate to call it the White House D.P.C.
Which, by definition, would be just as acceptable to the AH characters.
See also defunding the police and corrupting the military academies so badly the taxpayers yell to shut them down.
The Left's desired end state is chaos and collapse.
These sick-o marxists worm their way into everything that is good and try to destroy it. Every one of them should be fired and put on a do-not-hire-under-any-circumstances list.
Thank Lonnie Bunch III.
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