Trump Orders Review of ‘Woke’ Content
in US Museums
Epoch Times,
by
Savannah Hulsey Pointer
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
8/20/2025 2:17:39 PM
President Donald Trump has instructed legal experts to review “woke” installations in museums nationwide.
According to an Aug. 19 post on Truth Social, the president believes that museums are the “last remaining segment of ‘WOKE,’” and he wants to address the issue the same way his administration has treated colleges and universities.
Trump pointed specifically to a Washington, D.C., icon as a demonstration of the issue, saying, “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been—Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
padiva 8/20/2025 2:32:49 PM (No. 1993128)
This will be fun to watch.
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I suggest he take a look at the American Indian museum in D.C. As someone with Cherokee heritage, I did not appreciate this museum.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/20/2025 3:11:55 PM (No. 1993146)
The woke Natural History Museum features an entire wing of transsexual anmals - - including leopards, sea lions, salamanders, and Rachel Levine.
This has got to stop!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chagrined 8/20/2025 3:18:02 PM (No. 1993149)
This woke desecration of the hallowed halls of the Smithsonian stinks to the high heavens of communist treachery. President Trump's initiative to restore Truth and Sanity to American History is direly needed, not only in museums but academia all they way down to grade school. Every triumph of the Trump Administration from rectifying voter integrity to paring down the bureaucratic leviathan are in peril if our children continue to be taught to hate their own country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
privateer 8/20/2025 3:36:27 PM (No. 1993155)
Let the Left sponsor and found their own museum; dedicated to 'Wokum' , which is the most insidious, destructive and hateful variety of Hokum.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/20/2025 4:31:58 PM (No. 1993162)
Start with that big mud hut on Smithsonian property that features two actually famous black people and a couple of pieces of pottery on every floor. Harriet Tubman is worthy of fame and probably George Washington Carver.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/20/2025 4:39:06 PM (No. 1993165)
Unfortunately, he mentioned slavery which will be the only point the news will focus on, and not anything related to the other topics he mentions.
All he needed to do was mention "some exhibits have to be reviewed to ensure they are being balanced".
What should be highlighted is that the very Constitution that is derided by Democrats was what ultimately ended slavery in the United States very early. Remember, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 markied the end of the Revolutionary War and established the United States as a sovereign nation.
"The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law that prohibits the importation of slaves into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution. This legislation was promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, who called for its enactment in his 1806 State of the Union Address. He and others had promoted the idea since the 1770s. It reflected the force of the general trend toward abolishing the international slave trade, which Virginia, followed by all the other states, had prohibited or restricted since then." (per Wikipedia)
After that date, all slave ships were illegally entering the country.
I've read that roughly 300,000 slaves were brought to America. The overwhelming (millions) were brought to South American countries and the Caribbean countries.
Prior to 1783 Treaty of Paris, it was the territory controlled by England, France and Spain.
This is what I mean would be more balance and not a central focus.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/20/2025 4:43:11 PM (No. 1993167)
Re #6, how about Dr. Ben Carson, the famed neurosurgeon?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
samoasam 8/20/2025 4:46:03 PM (No. 1993168)
Blatent. The liberals have tarnished our heritage. It’s been happening for decades. American and foreign tourists to Washington were inundated with smears and propaganda at the Smithsonian. Despicable emphasis on wokism and racism. Thank god for Trump. The lies of these fraudulent bureaucrats have been accepted by uniparty for two generations. It’s a wonder we still have a country. Go Trump.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/20/2025 6:47:10 PM (No. 1993202)
Do the National Park Service too! Their visitor centers are all slavery all the time.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/20/2025 11:42:37 PM (No. 1993288)
President Trump. The way to stop most of the Woke BS is to Delete the Public Sector Unions especially the Teachers UNIONS, they are the ones that use this Woke BS to infest our government and pollute the minds of young minds in our schools! Then force all the Universities to have a 50% mix of Conservative and Liberal Professors/Administrators or LOSE ALL STUDENT LOANS. WHY should we pay for our students to be Indoctrinated into COMMUNISM??????????
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
billa57 8/21/2025 7:09:05 AM (No. 1993320)
These Socialist administrators cast the USA and its Constitution as evil and Marxism and collectivism as good, men as women, women as men and everything in between. Thank you, President Trump, for doing all these things that absolutely need to be addressed.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
happywarrior 8/21/2025 7:34:24 AM (No. 1993330)
Bring back the Teddy Roosevelt statue to the entrance of the Museum of Natural History!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
walcb 8/21/2025 8:26:47 AM (No. 1993352)
There needs to be a museum like facility where any business wanting to participate can describe and show what's new. For example; home construction companies could demonstrate discoveries to make houses more hurricane resistant and they could put emphasis on how young people can get involved in these new technologies to give them some direction on carriers. Epcot at Orlando was created to display new technology but it was largely based on permanent structures so not capable of adapting to new, fast developing technologies. Young people largely aren't interested in looking at ancient artifacts and elderly are always interested in seeing what is coming. Maybe there is a place where this is done but I am not aware.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
felixcat 8/21/2025 8:59:20 AM (No. 1993367)
Pretty basic. You accept federal funds to support your museum, university, etc; whether it's $1 or $100 million - then you play by our rules. Until these exhibits are cleaned up, every elementary, middle or high school should NOT allow any of their students to visit DC.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/21/2025 9:16:45 AM (No. 1993376)
Every morning I wake up happier than the day before....I can't wait to see what President Trump has to say for the day....did "too late" drop the interest rate?....did Putin decide to play nice?....is crooked hillary still in hiding except for staff to feed her approval of the news for the day?...and then there's Rosie the dessertor in Ireland giving her opinion on any subject......even if Americans are happy she's gone from OUR shores....she thinks WE care what she thinks.....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/21/2025 9:49:49 AM (No. 1993390)
Don't forget to FIRE everyone involved in this Woke SCAM!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/21/2025 11:59:20 AM (No. 1993482)
I would love to see a "Complete" display regarding the world slavery throughout history, so the "dindoonuffins" in our nation could for once understand how little they know about slavery, and that the little they think they know, is wrong.
Let's have a display for Slavery Throughout Human History, including China, Asia Minor, Asia Major, Greco-Roman Empires, Middle East and Africa, Europe and ancient Britain. Let's make sure they forever understand that they're not "unique" among mankind, or that it's only black people who suffered from slavery. Try tell that to the millions buried in the Great Wall of China.
And let's have a "Great Big Beautiful Display" (GBBD) about America too. Let's start with the Indigenous Peoples of the land... you know, the ones we USED to call "Indians" back when we were growing up, but now can't because some American guys invented the Internet and over came armies of "Indians" from a place called "India" to play with our new toy. Sorry, "Indigenous Americans," but those other guys got first dibs on your trademark name. /s
Some Factoids presented in the GBBD:
? Did you know American Indians owned slaves, making them the FIRST slaveowners in North America?
? Did you know the very first slaves brought to the Colonies were "WHITE?"
? Did you know those first white slaves were mostly Irish Catholics?
? Did you know that Irish Slaves were worked to death because they were FOC, whereas Africans came at a cost, making the white Irishman worth infinitely LESS than the black African.
? Did you know the British Sea Captains could commandeer Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, etc. ships, converting the entire ship's manifest into slaves then selling them to a Slaver in whatever Port they were bound, thus making the crew a bit richer, and the King with a new boat?
? Did you know there were many freed black slaves who themselves went on to own black slaves and run their own successful plantations? One such ex-slave owned over 100 slaves, servicing his large Plantation in Louisiana?
?....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 8/21/2025 12:26:12 PM (No. 1993499)
It's about time. The Left destroys everything they touch and that includes our history. Boy they must really, really hate our country to spew out such hatred for her.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rather Read 8/21/2025 1:34:16 PM (No. 1993548)
I love museums but lately they are hard to enjoy. They fixate on the evils of the western world with nothing about the achievements. When it comes to natural history, it's all climate change all the time. It can get very, very tiring.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NYbob 8/21/2025 2:07:43 PM (No. 1993567)
There is a YouTube of 2 men exposing the sickness of liberalLeftNeocommunist influence at the Smithsonian. One of the first things they show is a display of LGBT fetish gear behind glass, asking how far you would go for sex or something. A torso mannequin with studded leather crouch thing and some other weird straps.
Hey kids, let's go to DC and see history as presented by the sick, demented rats. Elected by pious 'open minded' freaks.
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