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Re: President Trump Signs Order to Review Statues That Were “Improperly” Removed in the Past 5 Years, Restore Truth to American History

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Once again,

the BS is flying about a bogus "insurrection".

DID ANYONE try to takeover the government? Were there any casualties except for the MURDER that a COP committed against an unarmed woman and apparently got away with it...

I am all in favor of restoring the things back to how they were before before political appeasement.

I think all the statues that were on Monument Avenue in Richmond, VA. should be restored. They were HISTORY of a bygone era. The people were real and they gave everything in their call to duty of the people of the South.

In the end, they lost the war but put up one heck of a fight against overwhelming odds.

What happened during the war years is HISTORY and the PEOPLE were REAL.

These attempts at trying to forget real historical events and the people who were involved need to and MUST be stopped.

I was never in favor of slavery and my family was never involved in that. Yet, it happened and was a part of American History like it or not..

Learn from past mistakes. Don't obliterate and destroy them..

These revisionists are full blown nut jobs who need to grow up and discover how to actually learn...

As a side note, Ribs and I are confident that the Vietnam war was real no matter the outcome.. Our country called and we answered. I was proud to serve..

And I would do it all over again if I were able.

So would Ribit.

We cannot just freeload in a country. We must be prepared to fight for it and defend it in order to keep our freedoms and way of life.. They are not FREE.
They are bought and purchased with the blood of soldiers..




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President Trump Signs Order to Review Statues That Were “Improperly” Removed in the Past 5 Years, Restore Truth to American History
By: De_Composed
in GRITZ
Fri, 28 Mar 25 8:32 PM
Msg. 06086 of 06228

March 28, 2025

President Trump Signs Order to Review Statues That Were “Improperly” Removed in the Past 5 Years, Restore Truth to American History

by Rusty Weiss
RedState.com



President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to restore truth to American history through an overhaul of the Smithsonian.

The order, titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," slams the Biden administration for ushering in an era of "corrosive ideology" in recent years and seeks to unfurl "divisive, race-centered" themes plaguing the institution.

"Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology," the order reads. "This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."

The directive puts Vice President JD Vance in charge of overseeing efforts to “remove improper ideology” from all areas of the institution. Vance serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents.

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The President notes that institutions like these - including the institution's museums and research centers - should focus on American achievements.It is the policy of my Administration to restore Federal sites dedicated to history, including parks and museums, to solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing. Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history.
If you're looking for the red meat issue that's almost certain to make liberals pull their hair out, it'd be the section of this new executive order that directs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to review and "restore" any "public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties" that may have been improperly removed in the past five-plus years.

A White House fact sheet states that their removal or any subsequent changes made to alter them were designed "to perpetuate a false revision of history or improperly minimize or disparage certain historical figures or events."

As for the pulling of the hair reference, enter Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX).

"First, Trump removes any reference of diversity from the present — now he’s trying to remove it from our history," she wrote on X. "Let me be PERFECTLY clear— you cannot erase our past, and you cannot stop us from fulfilling our future."

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"You cannot erase our past," says the party that tore down statues and wanted George Washington and Thomas Jefferson memorials removed.

Trump's latest order on the Smithsonian, much like his Kennedy Center overhaul, is an attempt to wrest control of these institutions away from far-left ideologues that have turned them into political statements rather than places of cultural advancement and education.

The Smithsonian has engaged in such lunacy for quite some time.

Back in 2016, the institution excluded Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from its National Museum of African American History and Culture. He was only mentioned tangentially as part of an exhibit on Anita Hill, who accused him of sexual harassment in the early 1990s. It was a story that had several holes and little basis in fact.

Thomas would later be added to an exhibit titled "The Supreme Court," which featured both him and Justice Thurgood Marshall.

The Smithsonian Institution’s American Women’s History Museum features transgender women on its official website. They mention Sylvia Rivera, a biological male activist born Ray Rivera, and co-founder of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.

The Smithsonian Museum also has a collection of artifacts it curated from the protest at the Capitol in January 2021. It includes a blue suit worn by Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ), a representative at the time, because he was photographed picking up litter left behind after the protest.

Kim was super-super proud of his accomplishment.

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"President Trump aims to ensure that the Smithsonian is an institution that sparks children’s imagination, celebrates American history and ingenuity, serves as a symbol to the world of American greatness, and makes America proud," the White House fact sheet adds.

The order directs all changes to the Smithsonian institutions to be completed by July 4th, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

http://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/28/trump-signs-eo-to-restore-statues-improperly-removed-in-past-5-years-restore-truth-to-american-history-n2187204


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