Don’t believe the media hysteria: Trump’s order on history and truth in American museums is a welcome blow to common sense.

One example is the so-called attack now being levelled at the Smithsonian.

The madman in the White House has instructed the Smithsonian Institution to put back all «memorials and statues» that have been «improperly removed» from federal property in recent years, according to the BBC.

Wait a minute. Call me a stickler for linguistic accuracy, but isn’t it a cleansing when you tear down monuments, not when you put them back up?

This is what Brendan O’Neill writes in Spiked.

The world-famous Smithsonian Museum in Washington was once a national icon. Now, not so much. For years, they had a text on their website that is a perfect example of postmodern madness.

A graphic that appears in the guidelines, titled Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness in the United States, declares that, among other things, rational thinking and hard work are white values.

The Smithsonian declared that «objective, rational, linear thinking», «quantitative emphasis», «hard work before play» and a host of other values are aspects and assumptions of whiteness. Showing up on time for an appointment was also an example of white supremacy.

White dominant culture, or whiteness, refers to how white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have become normalised over time and are now considered standard practice in the United States.

And since white people still hold most of the institutional power in the US, we’ve all internalised some aspects of white culture – including people of colour.

Other subchapters dealt with family structure, rugged individualism, Protestant work ethic and aesthetics. This is what Newsweek, which certainly does not support MAGA, wrote back in July 2020.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture became so inebriated with critical race theory that it began referring to hard work and the nuclear family as obsessions of white culture.

The leadership of this warped institution apologised for their record already in 2020. Yet the Norwegian media still manages to use words like «allegedly» or «claims» about what went on, even though millions of people have seen it with their own eyes for years.

We erred in including the chart. We have removed it, and we apologise. We are reviewing our policies to ensure that our digital materials reflect the quality you have come to expect. Education is core to our mission. We thank you for helping us to be better.

– Smithsonian’s NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) July 17, 2020

This is something Trump and his gang won’t bother funding with taxpayer money anymore. After all: Trump is president for all Americans, not just the 13 per cent or so who are dark-skinned. Not just for the woke mafia, like Biden. After all, he made enemies of half the population and accused his opponents of being domestic terrorists.

The Woke mafia is now fighting an uphill battle, because it is almost impossible to defend such things.

That’s why they’re going on the offensive, which is a good strategy militarily. But with frontrunners like AOC and Jasmine Crockett, the chances of victory are minimal. The Democrats don’t just lack leaders and generals, they lack majors, sergeants and reliable soldiers.

VG quotes Reuters, and the journalist clearly does not have access to the internet.

He claims the museum informs visitors that hard work, individualism and the nuclear family are aspects of white culture.

Trump is not «claiming» anything, he is pointing out a fact that has been known to the informed for many years.</p

Yes, a new Orwellian dictate has fallen: war is peace, freedom is slavery, and reversing a purge is a purge.

This is not a McCarthyite attempt to purge the museums of “progressive” thinking – it’s an attempt to reverse the McCarthyism of the woke ideologues who purged DC’s wonderful museums of their traditional missions and even of some of their artefacts.

Joseph R. McCarthy (R) was a senator for Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. During this period, McCarthy became known for his aggressive campaigns against communists and supposed communist sympathisers, for which he has been heavily criticised. Clearly, his attempts were unsuccessful.

Many of our readers may not have visited the Smithsonian, and therefore may not fully understand the importance of this institution. Probably most Document readers are well informed even without having visited the place.

I was there for the first time as a boy, my father took me to the National Air and Space Museum, where I got to see the capsule that heroes Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins landed in after the moon landing a few years earlier.

The flight department was a tremendous experience for a little boy who dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps as a fighter pilot. Absolutely all the fighter planes I had built models of were there, in the flesh. I built many models, to say the least. My favourites were the Spitfire and the F-104 Starfighter – which was my father’s former workplace.

Since then, I’ve visited the museum several times, although it’s been a few years. But it was absolutely unique, something the whole world admired. This is exactly what Trump is trying to recreate: The admiration of The American Dream.

So suddenly the leadership of, among other things, the largest aerospace museum in the US has declared that striving, sacrificing, achieving, everything you have to do to become a fighter pilot or astronaut, is a symbol of white supremacy?

If Trump manages to clean up the Smithsonian – and the US in general – my next holiday will be to visit my cousin in Philadelphia.

Maybe combined with a visit to what was once the world’s finest museum, at least for those interested in aeroplanes and space travel, and lead woke «ideas» took over.