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Smithsonian Museum Features Explicit And Trans Exhibits, White House Report Finds

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A public Smithsonian museum located just blocks from the Capitol features explicit sexual content in exhibits meant for families, a White House report revealed.

The White House Domestic Policy Council released a 162-page report on the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH). The July 4 report detailed explicit displays andpromotion of gender ideology at a museum intended for American families.

“Our central finding is not that the Museum has simply added overlooked stories, corrected perceived errors, or broadened its historical scope,” the report read. “Rather, it is that Museum leadership has explicitly adopted an ideological framework that 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.”

One “Entertainment Nation” exhibit featured explicit content, including a magazine cover featuring nude young women and footage of drag queen performances, according to the report. Another exhibit had a “Girl Germs” magazine that showed two partially naked women embracing. The magazine was about female masturbation, the report read.

An exhibit titled “Illegal to be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall” featured a sadomasochistic “crotch harness” while a “We Belong Here” exhibit featured a “chest binder” for a “trans nonbinary” skateboarder Leo Baker, according to the report.

A “Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” exhibit displayed a page from a six-year-old girl’s diary where she wrote about praying to God “every night for my penis to grow,” according to the report. Although Jennifer wrote, “I hope no body reads my diary,” her thoughts were on full display for visitors, an image shows. The exhibit did not refer to Jennifer as a girl.

The report noted that the NMAH “exhibits and educational materials present gender as fluid, treat biological males as girls or women, and fold contemporary advocacy for transgenderism into the Museum’s treatment of female childhood development, women’s history, and women’s sports.”

The museum glossary of terms in its “Becoming US” education program does not define what a biological female is, according to the report. “[A] child may feel they are a girl some days and a boy on others, or possibly feel that neither term describes them accurately,” the glossary reads, adding that it is “best to ask people who are gender fluid which pronouns they prefer.”

NMAH Director Anthea Hartig veered into activism over abortion in a 2024 speech, according to the report. “[W]e are moreover committed to our mission: empowering people to create a just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of our past. I feel that a future without federally protected reproductive health care rights is not informed, just, or compassionate,” she said, the report read.

“[W]e work to reframe the traditional celebratory narrative of U.S. history for visitors,” Hartig claimed in a May 2020 NMAH press release.

“I always be in an a state of becoming an historian, and I know what a head start I had, propped up as I was and I am by the cushions of whiteness and the pillows of the bourgeoisie,” Hartig, a white woman, said in a November 2020 video on the University of California, Riverside, YouTube page.

Following on President Donald Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Executive Order in March of 2025, the report blasted the NMAH under Director Hartig’s leadership.

“Today, the Museum fails to ‘place before millions who visit the Nation’s Capital each year a stimulating permanent exposition that commemorates our heritage of freedom and highlights the basic elements of our way of life,’” the report wrote. “We must be committed to restoring truth and sanity in how American history is presented and taught.”

“No American wants the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to be a system of ideological activism,” Director of the Domestic Policy Council Vince Haley told the Daily Caller. “It is our hope and expectation that the Smithsonian will eventually rise once again to that noble obligation — to tell America’s story for our children, the world, and future generations of Americans.”

A Smithsonian spokesperson issued a statement June 5 to The Hill. “For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so,” the spokesperson said.

The Daily Caller reached out to the Smithsonian Museum of American History for comment.

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President Trump’s Criticism of the Smithsonian Exhibits

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“I wouldn’t be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It’s become part of our culture, those characters.” —  Joe Mantegna

“To found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” —  James Smithson, Founder of the Smithsonian

President Donald Trump has expressed criticism towards Smithsonian exhibits, particularly in the context of what he and his administration perceive as promoting “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology”.

In March 2025, Trump issued an executive order directing the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents to remove content he felt was inappropriate. He cited exhibits in the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum as examples.  He claimed the Smithsonian was adopting a “revisionist movement” that negatively portrayed American founding principles and historical events.

Fox News reported the following regarding Mickey Mouse and the Lone Ranger:

The exhibit reframes iconic American characters through a critical, politically-charged lens. On The Lone Ranger, the display states: “The White title character’s relationship with Tonto resembled how the U.S. government imagined itself the world’s Lone Ranger.”

Mickey Mouse, a beloved American cultural icon, is not spared either. A display for the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie states, “Mickey challenged authority, but not everyone was in on the joke.”

It continues: “Mickey Mouse debuted as the deckhand ‘Steamboat Willie’ in 1928, amidst a rising anxiety felt by many that modern living and city life were eroding family and community ties and loosening moral codes… But the new character’s outsized facial features, white gloves, and trickster temperament were vestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy.”

The Smithsonian has a rather questionable background, but I’d surmise President Trump doesn’t know about it.  Robert Dale Owen, a democrat congressman from Indiana, played a significant role in the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution. He introduced the bill in 1846 that founded the Institution. He served on the first Board of Regents and was instrumental in the design of the Smithsonian Institution Building, also known as the Castle. He chaired the Building Committee.  Owen’s advocacy for a national system of free secondary education also influenced the early vision of the Smithsonian.

Robert Dale Owen was the son of the first socialist, Robert Owen, who immigrated to America in 1824 and started a socialist school in New Harmony, Indiana.  He was just as enamored of socialism/communism as his father but felt that his father really could have done better.

The father, Robert Owen, addressed the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions.

Key Details:

  • When: He gave two speeches to the U.S. Congress in 1825, on February 25th and March 7th.
  • What: He presented his vision for the utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana, and outlined his socialist beliefs.
  • Audience: His addresses were delivered to the House of Representatives and other members of the government. The audience for his ideas included several key figures from the founding generation:
  • Three former presidents: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
  • The outgoing President, James Monroe.
  • The President-elect, John Quincy Adams.

This indicates that Robert Owen did indeed interact with members of the founding generation during his visits and speeches to the U.S. Congress.

The President should know the Smithsonian’s origins, but I’d bet no one in his cabinet has enlightened him.  If anyone would know, it would be Stephen Miller!

President Trump’s instincts are correct.  His evaluation of the Smithsonian’s “one-sided, divisive political narratives” is not surprising once the 1846 involvement in the Smithsonian’s creation by socialist Robert Dale Owens is fully known.

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