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The Bolshevik takeover of the Smithsonian
The Washington Times ^ | Thursday, July 9, 2026 | Kelly Sadler

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,...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; benjaminfranklin; christophercolumbus; culturalmarxism; dpc; history; leftism; marxism; oah; smithsonian; strugglesessions; ushistory; whdpc
"Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing." --Robert Conquest
1 posted on 07/10/2026 12:26:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We need a complete purge of Democrats from all institutions public and private.


2 posted on 07/10/2026 12:40:29 PM PDT by Salman (We need to proceed as if the system were completely broken, because it is. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


3 posted on 07/10/2026 12:55:02 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who has the authority of fire members of the Smithsonian staff?


4 posted on 07/10/2026 1:23:25 PM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How appropriate to call it the White House D.P.C.


5 posted on 07/10/2026 1:47:59 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Ancesthntr
If these America-hating characters are in charge of the Smithsonian, its time to defund it.

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.

6 posted on 07/10/2026 1:50:20 PM PDT by frog in a pot (They can be a R or a D, the question is whether they are MAGA! That is the only line in the sand.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


7 posted on 07/10/2026 1:53:25 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank Lonnie Bunch III.


8 posted on 07/10/2026 2:10:12 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Ancesthntr
I, for one, am quite finished with the idea that “experts” (most of whom are self-appointed) know best about anything cultural or political.

For more about EXPERTS, click HERE and scroll on down.

9 posted on 07/10/2026 8:00:32 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: Ancesthntr

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov


10 posted on 07/10/2026 8:25:51 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Albion Wilde

“EXPERT” definition: “Ex” = a Has-Been, and “spurt” = a Drip Under Pressure.


11 posted on 07/10/2026 8:34:13 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I visited the Smithsonian in the late 90's (during a trip for a FR-sponsored gathering) and it was a mess of leftist indoctrination and brainwashing back then. Nice that someone else finally noticed.

I read that 62% of the Smithsonian's funding is from the Federal government. This is a violation of the Constitution, and we can't afford it anyhow. How are we this far into Trump's 2nd term and this hasn't been zeroed out?

12 posted on 07/10/2026 9:15:01 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Albion Wilde

Marking for a telling graph :/

Heavenly Father, please guide and strengthen us.
Tatt


13 posted on 07/11/2026 6:38:50 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The leftward tack started decades ago.

The Enola Gay exhibit royally pissed off millions, simply because many many veterans were still alive at that point, including much of the crew itself. Revisionist clowns, pseudo-intellectual quacks. They don’t vett people properly upon hiring and this is the kind of nonsense you get. The usual suspects are like termites, they won’t stop until they are stopped.


14 posted on 07/11/2026 8:25:50 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Salman

This makes you wonder how many other museums the left has queered and racialized.


15 posted on 07/22/2026 3:07:47 PM PDT by Kudsman (Beware: Some House GOP members plotting amnesty sellout. )
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To: Kudsman

Go to Monticello and you will want to vomit


16 posted on 07/22/2026 3:17:25 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

Can you imagine the Coal Miner’s HOF museum gayed up?


17 posted on 07/22/2026 4:11:36 PM PDT by Kudsman (Beware: Some House GOP members plotting amnesty sellout. )
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