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Trump is right about the Smithsonian. Canada shows what happens when woke history wins.

theblaze.com · 1h · first reportShare

President Donald Trump is right to challenge the leftist politicization of the Smithsonian, because what starts in a museum can ultimately end up as accepted fact or commonly held wisdom. That is precisely what has happened in Canada, where national museums began packaging leftist ideas about history as diversity, equity and inclusion — whoops, that's DEI, isn't it? There is now an active and increasingly organized campaign in Canada to criminalize 'residential school denialism.' What is truly bizarre is that those objecting to Trump's intervention are accusing him of rewriting history! The Smithsonian has been doing just that for years. In Canada, as we shall see, it is even worse. Trust fall On July 24, Trump issued an executive order titled "Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution," following a months-long White House review of the Smithsonian and its National Museum of American History. The review, released July 4 as "Saving America's Story," accused the museum of abandoning