The Washington Post has learned that the Interior Department under Doug Burgum is working to undermine and eliminate historical and scientific reality throughout the National Park System, as well as historical sites all over the nation.
The goal is to eliminate African American history, Indigenous history, women’s history, history of gay and lesbian Americans, and undermine scientific fact regarding climate change effect on the environment.
This horror has already occurred in Philadelphia, where an exhibit at Independence National Historical Park that had references to George Washington owning slaves was removed in January 2026 by order of the Donald Trump Administration, although then it was restored for the time being in February 2026, but with the issue still unresolved long term.
It also came about at Muir Woods National Monument in northern California in July 2025, where references to African Americans, women, and Indigenous Americans were removed, and John Muir’s racism was also removed.
National Park Rangers are resisting such actions, but the attack on facts and truth is in full swing, thereby promoting ignorance, fantasy, and denying reality of both the American past and the future of the scientific method.
Along with the federal government attack on museums and the arts, the goal clearly is brainwashing future generations, promoting a mythological view that would undermine the future advancement of the nation, and undermining what is taught and believed as fact in the nation’s classrooms.