As part of a Trump administration effort to restore “truth and sanity” to American history, national parks visitors are now encouraged to report “inappropriate” markers and displays. Most comments from the public have praised the parks, complimented the rangers or urged reversal of Trump’s funding cuts. Among the few negative reports, one Yellowstone visitor complained that the bison had “delayed traffic.”

I have a report to make about two inappropriate, if not anti-American, displays planned for our public spaces — by the Trump administration itself.

The first concerns the National Park Service’s plan to install the statue of a traitorous American who fought for an enemy country in a war against the U.S. that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers. His name is Albert Pike, a Confederate army general whose outdoor statue in Washington D.C. was toppled during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

By levying war against the U.S. government and aiding and abetting its enemies, Pike’s behavior fits the constitutional definition of treason. And, according to historian Allen W. Trelease in

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