Trump Orders the Nation's Museum, the Smithsonian, To De-Wokify

This is an important step.

It's important on its own, and its important to let the left know that we do not respect them and we no longer fear them.

Trump Moves To Rid Smithsonian Of Left-Wing Spin, Highlight American History 'Our goal is for the Smithsonian to be fact-based, scholarly, and historically sound.'

By Mary Margaret Olohan

WASHINGTON -- Some of Washington's top museums feature exhibits laced with an aggressively left-wing spin on American history, a Daily Wire review of Smithsonian exhibits found. Ahead of America's 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump is taking action to weed out that ideology and historical spin from these institutions.

Americans who visit the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., might expect to learn about the factual history of the United States, to view American art and artifacts, and to be inspired by tales of American courage and valor. But visitors are often greeted with overt ideological content, gender ideology, and LGBTQ propaganda, or aggressive reframing of events like the COVID-19 pandemic or the Black Lives Matter movement.

In an August 12 letter, Trump officials Lindsey Halligan, Vince Haley, and Russ Vought informed Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch that the Trump administration will be conducting a "comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions" in fulfillment of the president's executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."

"This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions," the Trump officials told the Smithsonian, noting that their review is "rooted in respect for the Smithsonian's vital mission and its extraordinary contributions" and that they want to "support a broader vision of excellence that highlights historically accurate, uplifting, and inclusive portrayals of America's heritage."

The move comes amid widespread concerns about how Washington institutions have repackaged and represented American history in the nation's capital -- or interspersed woke ideology throughout the Smithsonian museums. While critics and media such as ABC News argue that the president is trying to make the museums align with his personal "view of American history," the president's team maintains that American history should not be framed or packaged through any ideological lens.

"It is an honor to work alongside the Smithsonian in reviewing its museums and exhibits, with the shared goal of ensuring this treasured institution reflects the very best America has to offer -- accuracy, excellence, and the richness of our shared history," Halligan, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Staff Secretary, told The Daily Wire. "While certain ideological influences have permeated the Smithsonian over time, our goal is for the Smithsonian to be fact-based, scholarly, and historically sound."

"The current Smithsonian exhibits are publicly available so everyone can see firsthand what we have observed," she added.

That includes the National Museum of American History, where visitors were greeted upon entry by a "Pride Progress" flag that consists of the white, pink, purple, black, and brown stripes representing the transgender pride flag and "LGBTQ people of color." That flag is featured at the museum's entrance on Constitution Avenue, according to tourists and visitors of the Smithsonian.

The museum's "Change Your Game" exhibit "showcases dynamic stories and objects related to diverse inventors, athletes, and technologies that have changed how sports are played." The exhibit includes a big display on gender testing in athletics featuring Caster Semenya and Mack Beggs. Semenya, who is not American, was born with a rare condition called hyperandrogenism, which causes higher testosterone levels in women. Beggs, a woman who identifies as a man, competed in female high school wrestling in Texas despite taking high doses of testosterone.

The display does not contain examples of men competing as women and dominating in female sports, which the majority of Americans oppose.

Much more at the link.

This caused a minor furor on CNN (naturally), and the argument turned heated.

Abby Philips is, of course, a woke DEI leftist but she pretends to "moderate" the panel discussion on her show, but she is always telling the lone Republican to be quiet and accept the claims made by the six liberals present.

Two nights ago, Julie Roginski, another Regime liberal and a Guest of Last Resort on panel shows, decided to make a play for a permanent CNN job by repeatedly launching irrelevant personal attacks on Scott Jennings, deciding, somehow, that Jennings' support of Trump proves that he must be wrong about crime and woke museums Because January 6th. She made an extremely strained hypocrisy attack on Jennings, something along the lines of "well you said January 6th was bad in the past but now you support Trump so you must love crime."

Jennings called foul, and Abby Philips, of course, rode to the rescue of her fellow Regime DEI liberal, telling Jennings he needed to let her "finish her point," which was just to insult him.

Okay none of that is interesting. But the interesting -- or semi-interesting -- thing is that Scott Jennings then began calling out Abby Philips for letting her liberal panelists insult him all night while always counseling him alone to be respectful.

Jennings doesn't usually do that, and I think the reason is simple: He also never calls out CNN for its intense partisan bias. And I think that's because his contract specifies that he cannot impugn CNN nor its other "talent," like Abby Philips.

So it's telling that he's violating what I'm pretty sure is a term of his contract, that he never mention the Big Secret that CNN is a nasty leftwing propganda organization.

The entire premise of the Left's George Floyd-era argument was, in fact, "white people bad," and it is a sign of weakness, rather than strength, that the left-wing CNN panelists are now pretending that they never made that argument at all. Good, @JillianMichaels. https://t.co/FmLODARVER

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 14, 2025

And this Guest of Last Resort also claimed that cleaning the woke sermons out of the Smithsonian is "whitewashing slavery" and saying slavery is good.

The surprisingly based Jillian Michaels rejected this. Abby Philips, naturally, claimed if every exhibit in the Smithsonian isn't anti-white/anti-male propaganda, you're saying slavery is good.

BTW, Jillian Michaels used to be the trainer on The Biggest Loser. She's a lesbian and used to be pretty leftwing, but I think covid and transgenders in women's sports radicalized her to the right and now she's based.

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