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Happy Birthday, USA: Trump Gifts America Its History Back

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09.04.2026

America’s national parks obsess over slavery, climate panic, and racial grievance instead of the courage and achievements that built our country.

America’s national parks obsess over slavery, climate panic, and racial grievance instead of the courage and achievements that built our country.

President Trump is planning a massive celebration of the United States of America for its 250th birthday. But he has already done a lot to give America a birthday present better than any parade or pyrotechnic display: the preservation of our history. You have probably noticed a subversive anti-American agenda creeping into memorials and historical sites in recent years that have no place in places meant to celebrate or glorify America.

To push back against this, President Trump signed an Executive Order called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The order directs the Department of the Interior (DOI)—which runs our national parks and most of our treasured memorials—to review which monuments have been “removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology.”

Validating the necessity of Trump’s actions, left-wing activists within the DOI and the National Park Service (NPS) revolted. It promoted hundreds of........

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