The White House Just Highlighted These Absurd Displays At The Nation’s Top History Museum

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History pushes left-wing activism, featuring bizarre displays including chest binders, a crotch harness, and the diary of a gender-confused girl, according to a scathing White House report released Monday. 

The Trump administration’s Domestic Policy Council released a 162-page report concluding that the Smithsonian “fails in the basic task of illuminating our heritage” and instead promotes woke political causes. The report argues that the museum portrays the Founding Fathers primarily through the lens of slavery while marginalizing their broader influence on the nation’s founding.  

“Our central finding is not that the Museum has simply added overlooked stories, corrected perceived errors, or broadened its historical scope,” the report found. “Rather, it is that Museum leadership has explicitly adopted 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.”

Anthea Hartig, the director of the National Museum of American History, has previously said that she wants to use the museum to “advance social justice” and wanted to “work to reframe the traditional, celebratory narrative of U.S. history for visitors”

Hartig has also made derogatory statements about “whiteness,” claiming that she was propped up “by the cushions of whiteness and the pillows of the bourgeoisie.” 

The report highlighted past displays that included a crotch harness accompanied by a description of clothing being used as “acts of resistance as well as self-identity” for the LGBTQ movement, a chest binder that belonged to a transgender-identifying skateboarder, and a diary page from a young girl who wrote that she prayed “every night for my penis to grow.” 

In accordance with @POTUS‘s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” order, a new report exposes how the Smithsonian turned the Nat’l Museum of American History into a vehicle for Radical Left propaganda and degeneracy.

Here are some of the worst examples.

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It also cites displays suggesting it was discriminatory to keep boys who identify as girls out of female sports and videos featuring drag queens.

According to the report, museum staff also pushed an “anti-racist” toolkit encouraging employees to “confront whiteness” by “making the case for inclusion.”

The report criticizes the museum’s treatment of the nation’s founders, arguing that visitors “will find no major exhibits dedicated to America’s Founding era,” George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, other Founding Fathers, the Continental Congress, the Pilgrims, the Puritans, or major moments of the American Revolution…  

“Instead, visitors will find Founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, introduced chiefly through their connection to slavery while their decisive roles in building the Republic and their anti-slavery efforts are minimized or ignored,” the report found.

A Smithsonian spokesman told The Daily Wire that it has ”served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so.”