Americans 'want to know history and not a fairy tale': Historians on Trump rewriting US History - Velshi - MSNBC

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This week, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. It aims at eliminating what Trump calls “improper ideology” from the American Historical narrative, including at our museums, national parks, and monuments. The order singles out the Smithsonian, claiming that the museum system’s telling of America’s history is a “distorted narrative.”

But, says Johns Hopkins professor of History Martha S. Jones, “Americans are more than capable of confronting hard histories, including in the halls of the Smithsonian, and come out still feeling themselves to be Americans.” Chandra Manning, U.S. History professor at Georgetown University, agrees. “It's not a question of trying to tell a positive or a negative story. It's a question of telling a false story when we leave out the people who make up our past.” - Aired on 03/30/2025.

[dweller]

1. That EO wasn't written by the Pisswig

It has Russel Vought’s fingerprints all over it .
Likely ripped straight from Project 2025


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[Rhiannon12866]

2. I agree completely. TFG is only going along with this horrific plan as if Americans couldn't figure out where it came from

No doubt he believes it gives him the ultimate power he craves.

[dweller]

3. It came from

The same psychopathology as Mein Kampf , with a smear of narcissistic
evil meanderings tossed in for grins



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