Even at Fort McHenry: The Trump regime’s attempts to white-wash U.S. history revealed in leaked docs

As noted in my latest Baltimore Fishbowl column, the Center for American Progress (CAP) just released a report, based on a leaked Department of the Interior database, that shows the full extent of the Trump regime’s efforts to flag and censor almost anything negative — or the least bit unflattering — about American history in national parks. That includes Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

“At Fort McHenry National Monument in Maryland, flagged exhibits describe former President James Madison as a ‘weak and uninspiring war leader’ who ‘failed to replace incompetent military commanders.'”

There’s a reason for that prose: Most historians agree that James Madison was a brilliant political thinker, a real intellectual who helped draft the Constitution and Bill of Rights. But as commander-in-chief during the War of 1812, meh, he was not so much a great leader. You can read what the National Park Service says about him, though at this writing I’m not certain the prose reflects changes sought in Trump’s executive order calling for white wash. The Park Service prose still seems to offer the objectivity and balance you’d expect from legit historians and not the sanitized version you’d expect from anti-woke Trump staffers.

The report from CAP — by Angelo Villagomez, Mariam Rashid and Kendra Hughes — can be found here: Censored: Erasing 250 Years of American History on Public Lands

News note: Reversing a lower court ruling, an appeals court ruled last week that the Trump regime can reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia. Here’s the story from the Associated Press.

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