People walk by a statue of George Washington by Horatio Greenough while visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2025. The White House has released a report criticizing the museum for "extreme political activism." File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
July 6 (UPI) -- The White House marked Independence Day by releasing a scathing report on the Smithsonian Institution, particularly the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, for what it called "extreme political activism."
The report, "Saving America's Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage," accuses the museum of anti-white bias and claims it "no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit and discourage our citizens."
The report takes exception to display language that "refuses to affirm the exceptional courage of the American people" and displays that connect the Founding Fathers with slavery, along with many other complaints.
It also says the museum endorses illegal immigration, advocates transgender issues and focuses on Christianity as "an instrument of conquest, exclusion or cultural erasure."
