Trump’s Smithsonian Restoration
Liberating an institution enslaved by the America-hating Left.
Don’t miss Rod’s analysis of Trump’s consolidation of American global hegemony.
NOTE: Since Barack Obama’s election, promising to “fundamentally transform America”, Democrats have done exactly that, renaming everything in sight, tearing down statues (one remarkable example involved “antiracist” rioters toppling a statue of Abraham Lincoln), and rewriting history to advance their very modern leftist political agenda.
Or to put that another way, they are not so much hypocritical in their opposition to Trump’s order as they are Communist: they are applying the Soviet-era Brezhnev Doctrine, that not one inch of soil that has ever belonged to them may ever be redeemed.
In case you missed it, Socialism is the Hotel California, at least in the view of its advocates. And history may ratchet only and exactly one way. — RDM
by Mark Tapson
August 22, 2025
The Left has been wringing its hands this past week after Trump recently ordered a “comprehensive internal review” of several Smithsonian museums to ensure that the 178-year-old institution, captured by the Left, removes its relentless anti-American propaganda and provides some balance in its exhibitions and materials.
In an Aug. 12 letter from the White House to the Smithsonian’s woke chief, Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III, the White House stated:
As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Nation’s founding, it is more important than ever that our national museums reflect the unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story.
The review is to help the administration “support a broader vision of excellence that highlights historically accurate, uplifting, and inclusive portrayals of America’s heritage.”
The letter cited one of Trump’s executive orders from March, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which bluntly called out the Left’s “revisionist movement… to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light” – especially as manifested at the Smithsonian. That E.O. noted that the museum complex had, “in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” promoting “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
The ”recent years” under which that influence grew happen to coincide with the tenure of Lonnie G. Bunch III, who took over as the Secretary of the Smithsonian in 2019.