NPS Flags Book About George Washington in Trump Crackdown

Daily Beast – …In a March 27 Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump claimed that under the Biden administration the parks “advanced this corrosive ideology.” National Park Service employees have been directed to weed out “corrosive ideology” from their gift shops…National Park Service employees have flagged several books to remove from their gift shops as part of the Trump administration’s crusade against “corrosive ideology.” A records review conducted by The Washington Post revealed several book titles that have been earmarked for withdrawal from park retail stores, including a Native American picture book by former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland; Nikole Hannah-Jones’s The 1619 Project, about the history of slavery in the United States; and another book that reportedly refers to first President George Washington as “an enslaver.”…

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