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Washington " President Trump on Friday ordered federal officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History that correct what he says is "inaccurate" information presented by the institution about American history.

Mr. Trump's directive cited a 162-page White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of adopting "an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens."

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The Propaganda Machine from Project25 is werking overtime.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-24 11:12 PM | Reply

Like that fat bald demented pedo knows history.

---- you Nazi racist ----

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-24 11:18 PM | Reply

To control the future, rewrite the past.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-24 11:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Law & Politics

I Watched the Unhinged Anti-Smithsonian Congressional Hearing So You Don't Have To

Anthea Hartig keeps her cool on the stand, answering questions about ideological bias.

Yesterday's particularly noxious one, "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past" emerged in response to "Saving America's Story," the report released by Trump's White House Policy Council on July 4.

The document features 160 pages of grievances about the "ideological capture" of the Smithsonian Institution, claiming that it promotes a left-wing activist agenda.

Tuesday's hearing summoned Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, to Capitol Hill to be grilled about the findings by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform."

news.artnet.com

Republicans obviously prefer the Goebbels Propaganda Agenda:

"As the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels orchestrated a total takeover of Germany's media, arts, and culture to build blind devotion to Adolf Hitler and enforce Nazi racial ideology.

His strategic agenda relied on centralizing power, censoring opposition, and utilizing psychology to manipulate public opinion.

The Core Goals

The "Fhrer Myth": Goebbels deliberately elevated Hitler from a politician into a messianic savior figure who could do no wrong.Dehumanizing the Enemy: He ran aggressive campaigns targeting Jews, Communists, and liberals as existential threats to the German nation."

more

www.google.com

Remember, it was the Vice-President of the United States who told you that DJT is, "America's Hitler".

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-24 11:21 PM | Reply

A few years ago I visited Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello.

I was very disgusted how every exhibit along the tour, the tour guide would work in some way to disparage Jefferson.

All the things he accomplished and they were obsessed with the fact he had owned slaves. From what I've read he took much better care of them than many others.

I'm not going to defend slavery but it was woven into the fabric of those times.

I see exactly what Trump is going after. Apparently what I saw at Monticello must be compounded at the Smithsonian.

#5 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 12:15 AM | Reply

He Raped his Female slaves and sold his own kids with them into Slavery. How is that "Treating them Well". Especially the kids.

BJ, you're a Turd.

Jefferson was a Hypocrite and a Rapist.

He wrote great Fiction about "Freedom".

He didn't Really even know what it Was.

Except for the Racial Elect.

Oh, and Dudes only.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-25 03:58 AM | Reply

"All the things he accomplished and they were obsessed with the fact he had owned slaves"

Here's a shocker for you, BILL: Jefferson was obsessed by the simple fact he owned human beings. And he remained a perplexed hypocrite on that topic his entire life. So what? A complex hero with complicated views? Oh, the horror. So awful, being informed. Turn on the night light!!

The US also created the first modern concentration camps - for the original inhabitants of the land. There it is, live with it.

Ideology is easy. History is often hard. Definitely not a child's tale, unless one chooses to remain a child.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-25 05:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

A complex hero with complicated views?

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis a

Like Harry Truman.

If you want your heroes to be perfect, you'll never have heroes.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 09:02 AM | Reply

I see exactly what Trump is going after.

#5 | Posted by BillJohnson

No, you don't.

This stupid Trump thing simply fits his pattern of trying to subordinate American institutions to his will.

I marvel at your inability to see the tyrant and the bully in Trump, BILL.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 09:04 AM | Reply

| Posted by BillJohnson

You won't even see the sheer spite of Donald Trump, his gutter malavalency.

Won't, not can't.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 09:08 AM | Reply

Zed,

You just hate America.

Why not just move away?

#11 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 09:32 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

You just hate America.

Why not just move away?

#11 | Posted by BillJohnson

Donald Trump has nothing to do with America, BILL. Nothing.

As for moving away? Those of us who identify as Americans will stay to defend both the Liberal and old Conservative visions of America.

You're the radical. You leave.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 09:43 AM | Reply

Zed,

It has reached the point where all the ranting about slavery and the wrist-slashing remorse and guilt amount to little more than virtue signaling by the left.

But Democrats have lost any claim to virtue.

It started when they made the killing of unborn children part of their party platform, and it has been downhill ever since.

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 09:52 AM | Reply

Zed,

TDS has become an obsession far out of proportion to the actual problems of our time.

#14 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 09:57 AM | Reply

It started when they made the killing of unborn children

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson

I've never understood the argument that a fetus is a child. Neither the "scientific" one offered by the Far Right, or the religous one, which really isn't.

I am joined in this by billions. Billions, BILL.

You people have talked yourself into the idea that abortion kills a child. And now, rather than talk anyone else into it, you put your boot on our necks about it.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 10:09 AM | Reply

TDS

#14 | Posted by BillJohnson

Once you see Trump as a murderous and thieving sociopath, Bill, you can't unsee that.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 10:10 AM | Reply

TDS = Trumpf Diarrhea Syndrome or "Exploding A__ Disease"

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-25 10:13 AM | Reply

Mr. Trump's directive cited a 162-page White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of adopting "an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens."

I had to go check this one...

"Yes, Archie Bunker's famous wing chair from All in the Family is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C."

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-25 10:29 AM | Reply

"You know somethin', if you liberals go on getting your way we're all gonna hear one big, loud flush - that's the sound of the U.S. of A. going down the toilet!"

"If your spics and your spades want their rightful share of the American dream, let 'em get out there and hustle for it like I done."

"I didn't have no million people marchin' and protestin' to get my job."

"No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country"oughta be de-exported the hell outta here!"

Not-quite-random-Archie quotes. From a character so central to American TV culture we enshrined his chair in the most prestigious American history museum that exists.

#19 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-25 10:32 AM | Reply

Posted by BillJohnson:

5. "I'm not going to defend slavery but it was woven into the fabric of those times."

I've taken the tour too. You were looking for hagiography to support what you thought should be heard. Why? What makes you more knowledgeable about what to present than the people actually there, who are fully versed in their material? My wife was concerned there wasn't a tour of the slave quarters. That interested her very much, and she's as southern as you get (more so as the Alzheimer's takes full hold; you can draw your own conclusions).

11. "You just hate America. Why not just move away?" Will you do that when Trumpism dies?

13. "It started when they made the killing of unborn children." Abortion goes back thousands of years.

14. "TDS has become an obsession far out of proportion to the actual problems of our time." Which are what in your opinion? And Trump is in the middle of all actual problems of our time now. He's been president of These United States for a long time over a period of time, and never went away when he wasn't.

Bill: Recent scholarship talks about the use of enslaved people in the production of the New Testament. That'll give you something to cheer about. People under the boot.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 10:36 AM | Reply

Perhaps Trump's Ballroom will make it into the Smithsonian some day.

More likely it will be his Makeup Kit that gets in as it is said to be nominally smaller.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-25 10:37 AM | Reply

Posted by BillJohnson

I suggest you read this:
www.goodreads.com

TJ is my favorite FF, but the more you learn, the more you know. He was an extremely complicated person. But he did bring ice cream to America.
I do not like the contemporary idea that we all should be defined by our worst traits, but ignoring the truth is just wrong. All smart folks are complicated and torn human beings.
The Smithsonian should present all sides.

#22 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-07-25 10:40 AM | Reply

I also heard that King Dotard wanted to change the placard for Archie Bunker's chair, saying that he was right about everything.

#23 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-07-25 10:41 AM | Reply

More BJ: 13. "Slavery and the wrist-slashing remorse and guilt amount to little more than virtue signaling by the left."

You are just a disgusting human being for this reason: You don't care that the country you love (hell, the entire hemisphere) was built on land stolen from one people while committing genocide against them and built literally on the backs of another.

#24 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 10:43 AM | Reply

TJ wanted to kill all the Native Americans but save their languages to study them. Fact.

#25 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 10:43 AM | Reply

I understand that a new portrait of Jefferson with blonde hair and orange skin is being prepared for the Smithsonian by the WH Faith Office.

DBT2

A new book for your perusal,... as if you needed one:

www.amazon.com

#26 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-25 10:48 AM | Reply

Zed,

"Once you see Trump as a murderous and thieving sociopath, Bill, you can't unsee that."

What you see when you look at Trump is no concern of mine.

I don't sit around thinking about him the way so many on the left seem to.

It's all politics to me. I'll leave questions of criminal guilt and punishment to law enforcement and the courts.

I have better things to do.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 10:49 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

What you see when you look at Trump is no concern of mine.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson

And yet here you are, calling me deranged.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 10:54 AM | Reply

Zed,

"And yet here you are, calling me deranged"

No...just obsessed.

That must get tiring for you constantly thinking about and hating Trump.

#29 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:05 AM | Reply

www.amazon.com

#26 | Posted by Corky

Thanks, but they were pikers.

When the Spaniards tried to destroy Incan temples, they found the temples were built one inside another. Not just one big pyramid. More like Russian nesting dolls.

Dumb Western Europeans. And that was the culture they destroyed.

#30 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:09 AM | Reply

Db,

"What makes you more knowledgeable about what to present than the people actually there"

I'm not the history expert. My wife is.

Masters in history and years of in depth research and constant reading about many subjects.

And she's a beautiful human being.

#31 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:09 AM | Reply

That must get tiring for you constantly thinking about and hating Trump.
#29 | Posted by BillJohnson

Constantly heralding your own thoughts and patting yourself on the back because Donald Trump shares what's going on in your head must leave you very well rested and at peace with yourself.

Nam myoho renge kyo.

#32 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:11 AM | Reply

Db,
"What makes you more knowledgeable about what to present than the people actually there"
I'm not the history expert. My wife is.
Masters in history and years of in depth research and constant reading about many subjects.
And she's a beautiful human being.

Every time history is mentioned, you bring up your wife and her master's degree as if that absolves you and what you post here. Why should that change our mind? Why don't you have her log in here if your hiding under her skirts?

#33 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:13 AM | Reply

you're hiding ...

#34 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:13 AM | Reply

Master's degree in history? Isn't that, for rightwingers, the equivalent of basket-weaving?

The secondhand knowledge that you reflect from your master/dominatrix shows as much.

#35 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:15 AM | Reply

Was your wife on the tour with you? Did her history degree mean that she knew more than the docents at Charlottesville?

What specifically was her master's thesis on? Please make it general so we don't have to look it up.

#36 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:16 AM | Reply

Db,

My Christian faith is where I get my peace.

#37 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:16 AM | Reply

That must get tiring for you constantly thinking about and hating Trump.

#29 | Posted by BillJohnson

Why would you think that?

I'm no more "obsessed" by Trump than you are, BILL.

I just don't make a hero out of what I see.

#38 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-25 11:17 AM | Reply

My Christian faith is where I get my peace.
#37 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Seems it's doing a pi##-poor job of it. Maybe shop around some more?

#39 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-25 11:21 AM | Reply

a character so central to American TV culture we enshrined his chair in the most prestigious American history museum that exists.
#19 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Archie Bunker's Chair is in The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame?
Or did you mean Cooperstown?

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-25 11:23 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Db,

"What specifically was her master's thesis on?"

I helped her type it. From what I recall, she researched immigration and integration 100 years ago, along with the causes and background of certain riots.

#41 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:25 AM | Reply

Db,

It's been years since she wrote it so it be more than 100 years now.

#42 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:27 AM | Reply

I was very disgusted how every exhibit along the tour, the tour guide would work in some way to disparage Jefferson.
#5 | Posted by BillJohnson

If telling the truth about a man disparages a man, then that's the man's problem, not the truth teller's.
And, how is that disgusting? That's a testament to the man's wealth and power. Slaves ain't cheap!

"I'm not going to defend slavery but it was woven into the fabric of those times."

Clever use of the passive voice. THomas Jefferson wasn't required to own slaves. He made that choice of his own free will.
Give Thomas Jefferson the credit he deserves for taking Sally Hemings to be his sex slave.
Give him credit too for enslaving the six rape babies she bore for him.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-25 11:28 AM | Reply

BJ, I don't think you know what Christian Faith Is.

Love thy Neighbor, FEED the Poor, A Rich man has less chance than a Camel threading the Eye of a Needle than they do in achieving Eternal Life.

Do Any of these things Descibe Trump or MAGA?

MAGA is about Hate,Division, Intolerance,and now in Iran, Mass Murder.

Trump Worships HIMSELF.

Is any of that "Christian"?

#44 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-25 11:28 AM | Reply

- It's all politics to me. I'll leave questions of criminal guilt and punishment to law enforcement and the courts

Oddly, that only seems to apply to DJT, not Democrats.

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-25 11:32 AM | Reply

I'll leave questions of criminal guilt and punishment to law enforcement and the courts
#27 | Posted by BillJohnson

You don't do that when it's "illegal immigrants." You've already determined they must be guilty of something. Despite their criminal guilt never being established in the courts.

You don't even realize how deeply and how thoroughly you lie to yourself. Any time you catch a glance of it, you quickly turn away.

#46 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-25 11:36 AM | Reply

Db,

"Why should that change our mind?"

That's not my intention.

I write mainly to organize and clarify my own thoughts.

#47 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:38 AM | Reply

It's Not Working too well BJ.

#48 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-25 11:39 AM | Reply

Corky,

"Oddly, that only seems to apply to DJT, not Democrats."

That would be a fair criticism if it were true.

I said guilt should be determined by the courts, regardless of which party.

#49 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:43 AM | Reply

Any time you catch a glance of it, you quickly turn away.

"Turning away" is a sure sign of a Fake Plastic Christian.


On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand

"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"

#50 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-25 11:43 AM | Reply

I'm not the history expert. My wife is.
#31 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Then she should probably be in a position to opine that an MA in History does not an "expert" make; neither, for that matter, does a PhD. She should also be able to point put public history, especially, is informed by many factors. History is a lot like archaeology, in that interpretation plays a huge role. And that interpretation is, hopefully, driven by a well-informed perspective assisted by encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, training in relevant techniques and disciplines, plus the ability to apply reasoning and reach (tentative?) conclusions based on said encyclopedic knowledge, training, and research.

"Experts"? Too often, I think, the word is employed to imply infallibility or some variation on that theme. I prefer to think of people possessing different states/stages of knowledge and expertise and the ability to apply them bringing that to the delicate art of piecing together all those scattered tesserae from which we attempt to assemble a reasonably accurate mosaic.

#51 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-25 11:48 AM | Reply

From what I recall, she researched immigration and integration 100 years ago [the 1920s], along with the causes and background of certain riots.
#41 | Posted by BillJohnson

Sounds fascinating, and kudos for you to typing it.

In today's scholarship at most universities, that topic would uncover a lot of information that I'd guess would make you uncomfortable.

#52 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:48 AM | Reply

51 can't be said enough.

#53 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:49 AM | Reply

Eff,

"It's not working too well, BJ."

It worked well enough for me.

I voted for Reagan, then supported Democrats for a couple of decades, until Trump.

Writing, reading the posts here, and interacting with others have helped me figure out where my values lie.

#54 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:50 AM | Reply

Sorry, Bill, she wrote it years ago, so let's assume immigration and integration from the 1880s to the 1920s.

Same holds.

#55 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:52 AM | Reply

Doc,

"MA in History does not an "expert" make; neither, for that matter, does a PhD"

Surely you've known people without formal credentials you still consider experts.

#56 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:53 AM | Reply

Db,

I suspect immigration and integration would be discussed in a very different tone today.

#57 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:55 AM | Reply

I write mainly to organize and clarify my own thoughts.
#47 | Posted by BillJohnson

Hoo-boy.

#58 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 11:55 AM | Reply

"A Century Later, Restrictive 1924 U.S. Immigration Law Has Reverberations in Immigration Debate

The 1924 Immigration Act's eugenics-influenced national-origin quotas reshaped U.S. demographics for decades and its core provisions still shape U.S. immigration law.

The 1924 Immigration Act reduced annual arrivals from nearly 707,000 to 280,000 within five years and slashed quotas for Eastern and Southern European immigration.

The law's national-origins quotas were rooted in eugenics and designed to restore a Northern and Western European demographic majority; they helped drive the foreign-born share of the U.S. population to a record low 4.7 percent in 1970.

By closing off legal pathways, the law left the United States largely unable to accept Jews fleeing the Holocaust."

more

www.migrationpolicy.org

MEGA!

Make Eugenics Great Again!

(selective breeding breeds Trumpers!)

#59 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-25 11:56 AM | Reply

Time for a pizza party....

#60 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-25 11:57 AM | Reply

I suspect immigration and integration would be discussed in a very different tone today.
#57 | Posted by BillJohnson

I agree, but why, if the thesis was addressing the facts?

You typed it, and your wife from what you say stays immersed in historical subjects, which seem to inform your thoughts.

Why would facts be discussed in a different tone today than 30 or 40 years ago? Would you say the same for the natural sciences, or are you closed out from opinions there because your wife isn't a scientist?

Surely you've known people without formal credentials you still consider experts.
#56 | Posted by BillJohnson

The point Doc, I think, is making, is just because your wife has an MA doesn't make her one. If he's not making that point, I will.

A master's degree doesn't impress me. I read stuff from full professors who can't figure out how to write a footnote.

#61 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-25 12:00 PM | Reply

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