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A new White House report was released on America’s 250th birthday, which exposed how the nation’s largest taxpayer-funded museum is currently displaying a “Radical Left” political bias.
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.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 7, 2026
Here are some of the worst examples.
🧵THREAD:
The Saving America’s Story report displays evidence that the Smithsonian has been pushing a revisionist history agenda that divides Americans and encourages educators and students to lose faith in America’s founding, heritage, principles, and freedoms.
The Smithsonian was created by Congress in 1846 to establish an institution to increase and diffuse knowledge among the people. Smithsonian leadership argued before Congress in 1953 that it should be a place in Washington, D.C., to commemorate Americans’ heritage of freedom and lifestyle. The 2026 annual Congressional budget request for the Smithsonian amounted to $1,080,500,000 in taxpayer funding.
After President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14253 on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” in 2025, a review of the Smithsonian was conducted to ensure that the National Museum of American History (NMAH) was serving Americans as directed.
However, the Saving America’s Story report found that Smithsonian leadership has instead focused on revisionist history, highlighting identity politics and American flaws, and undermining historical facts with critical theories that fail to commemorate the American heritage of freedom.
This new report from @WhiteHouse is devastating.
— Rep. Riley M. Moore (@RepRileyMoore) July 8, 2026
The Smithsonian was founded to commemorate America’s "heritage of freedom," but today it is infected with insane leftwing ideology and critical theory.
Our nation deserves better. Let’s make the Smithsonian Great Again! pic.twitter.com/d7NB0gstGY
Current NMAH director Anthea M. Hartig has held the position since 2018. The report displays that during that time, she has worked to ignore America’s founding fathers in favor of highlighting illegal immigrants, abortion activists, and displaying America’s flaws rather than its successes. She immediately directed museum staff to rewrite the museum’s directive to focus on implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices that presented American history through a critical lens after she obtained her directorial position.
The report detailed how Hartig specifically expressed disdain for Americans who wish to put their nation and its people first in political processes, and sought to direct attention away from American excellence to highlight non-Americans and other nations.
Exhibits heralding illegal immigrants and vilifying the legal protection of American borders are not just presented to the public but are involved in Smithsonian learning materials sent to public schools, as are materials highlighting abortion activism, gun control activists, and gender theory (which seeks to replace biology with gender identity).
NMAH’s “Becoming US framework” materials direct America’s teachers to instruct students that: America has no single culture, migrants build the nation, and America is operating on stolen land.
The impact of how the Smithsonian’s portrayal of American history is affecting taxpayer-funded public schools is highlighted in the report, which noted, “According to official Smithsonian data, the Smithsonian’s educational programs and publications have reached tens of millions of individuals in recent years, with NMAH’s educational efforts alone reaching over 8 million since FY 2022. In fact, it is estimated that, ‘More than 80% of history teachers use materials from federal museums such as the Smithsonian.'”
In addition, the Smithsonian has reportedly been teaching “transformative justice,” a concept that replaces the criminal justice system with social outreach and compares law enforcement to slave patrols. This claims that the American legal system is designed with “structural racism.”
The Saving America’s Story report also found that the Smithsonian claims that there is too much focus on white people in history and that all white people “have an empathy gap.” NEMA has distributed materials that center on the belief that white people are born to privileged lives. These materials vilify “white culture” for heralding individualism, the family structure, use of the scientific method, a good work ethic, merit-based accolades, property ownership, keeping a timely schedule, planning for the future, and working toward financial stability.
NEMA’s Reframing History objective was found to portray Christian pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower as “colonizers,” not founders, settlers, or people fleeing religious persecution. It also redefined Thanksgiving as a “National Day of Mourning,” calling the known history a myth and claiming that the United States has not changed since 1957.
The Museum of *American* History has no major exhibits dedicated to *America’s* founding.
— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) July 7, 2026
Instead, it focuses on “social justice” and “decolonization”. This is wrong.
Museums should tell our story honestly and with pride. I’m fighting to end this mess—https://t.co/xLRzI9BHNf https://t.co/cq04CcpPvZ
Furthermore, NEMA currently does not host any displays highlighting the Founding Fathers or the Declaration of Independence. It also refused to display materials about the nation’s founding or to host events for America’s 250th birthday; instead, NEMA held a discussion about America’s flaws on this year’s Independence Day.
The 162-page Saving America’s Story report concluded that the NMAH fails to deliver an honest picture of factual American history and successes, but instead, “NMAH is a clear and institutionalized example of intersectional critical theory—an intellectual framework rooted in Marxism that seeks to radically transform society by revealing and challenging alleged ‘overlapping systems of oppression’—applied to American history.”
