# Post ts_117405289555366837

- Post ID: `ts_117405289555366837`
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- Posted: 2026-10-08T12:29:08.148Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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## What the media says

**Video transcript** (12:09), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Do you ever stop to wonder how they came to think this way? One of the things that brought me into starting my PhD program was finally coming to the realization that we were never really going to be able to tackle white supremacy in the way that we need to without reparations. Our ability to quantify racism, I think, is so critical, and I think we've been missing that and understanding it beyond just the general gap of race. The reparations obsession. From a woman who was born in Ethiopia and whose family was allowed to come here courtesy of America's good will, a diversity visa, Malak Kiroz is a Democrat's great socialist hope in Colorado, is a typical lefty, over-educated and entitled, and anti-American malcontent. But there are countless more like her. Their corrosive world view is shaped by a number of inputs. We've got to get to the bottom of all of it. Of course, the parents in some cases, the schools, social media, and yes, cultural institutions that feed and reinforce their resentment toward all things American. And this week, the Trump administration is blowing the lid off one of the worst, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Now it's a museum led now by this woman, Anthea Hardig, with the help of top staff such as Patti Arteaga. They've taken our nation's most important museum for American history and turned it into a crusade for restorative history. Our new mission statement, empowering people to create a more just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of our past. As we all know in this conference, loving America is very complicated. I'm here representing the Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative, but chronicling the past 20 years of people without citizenship, coming out of the shadows, mobilizing and influencing legislation and becoming their own political force in the 21st century. So the Smithsonian has been woke for years, but now you see this from this hokey video. Now it's just gone a step further by launching its Let's Stand Together to Do Better campaign. Don't you love that title? To train a new generation of activists. If we want to change the biases in our world, we need to face them. We need to stand up together and face the injustices. There is no shame in wanting a better world for all and for our future. And we will not be alone in standing up. Whether we join with our neighbors to paint over symbols of hate, or we come together to peacefully protest police violence, there is a community of allies that we join when we finally choose to stand up. Oh my God, it's just all so tedious. Now sure, there's still the ruby slippers and the first Macintosh computer and the first telephone in the exhibits, but the museum's political undercurrent is part BLM, part anti-ICE, with a little DSA, trans and NEA thrown in for good measure. It's kind of an amalgam of all of it. Now mind you, we the people are funding the Smithsonian about a billion dollars in appropriations. So I gotta say, who voted for this? I didn't. So do the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, do they even know what the museum is being used for? Here's the list of the folks on the Board of Regents. You got the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, J.D. Vance, he's a little busy. Okay. You got Senator John Boosman, he's a Republican, a couple of other Republican congressmen and various other people. Now here's what the report from the Domestic Policy Council found, that the Smithsonian presents the Founders through the lens of slavery rather than their contributions, that Christianity is portrayed as a force of oppression, ditto for the pilgrims, natch, and museum leadership thinks our founding should be problematized, emphasizing America's shortcoming and of course reframing instead of celebrating our founding. Its mission statement is removing references to American history and instead focuses on a quote, more just and compassionate future. And exhibits are directed to focus on modern political issues across nearly every topic. The report also found anti-white and anti-oppression programming for staff. Immigration exhibits highlight activism surrounding illegal immigration. Gender related exhibits present transgender identity as part of women's and children's history. And by the way, youth exhibits contain material the report argues is inappropriate for children. Oh no, that's never going to happen. So look, our tax dollars are funding a museum that fails to provide a balanced view of American history. There's bad stuff but there's a lot of good stuff. And instead it devotes itself to left wing activism. That's obvious the goal. Now it's designed to encourage the dismantling of American norms and culture over time. And now we're onto them. No one, no, I was watching this today, the New York Times, I think they had like five articles on this today. No wonder they're so upset and so many media outlets are out there running interference for the Smithsonian today. Haberman Swan on their book tour had time to write a piece claiming that Trump is the one trying to impose his own view of American history on the museum. All right. Of course that's what they're going to say. It's absurd. Trump didn't politicize the museum. The museum's directors and staff did. Look, here's the bottom line. The liberal establishment believes that the Smithsonian is theirs to use as a vehicle for advancing anti-American agendas. They believe that when Americans come to visit their nation's capital or when foreigners come to visit DC, they should be confronted with evidence that's built on America's racism, xenophobia, and of course overall greed. It's the kind of stuff that shallow celebrities spout to try to sound smart. I think him forcing us and firing and taking the names off boats of important Latino history heroes and history and all that erasure on women and black folk. The museums, the Smithsonian. Yeah. Erasing our history. Completely taking it out. And since that's the real history, right, we should all be ashamed and we should be ready to make amends, meaning they're coming to take your money and maybe even your property and then just give it to a bunch of their friends. That's what they want. And that's what they'll do unless we the people get involved and demand that our congressmen and our senators stop funding this anti-American madness. And that's the angle. Vince Haley is the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and it's been given the task of implementing the president's executive order, restoring truth and sanity to American history. Vince, the media jumped on this really fast and they say you all are the ones who are trying to co-opt history, erase the sins of the past and rewrite it in Trumpian terms. To that you say? Well, Laura, it's great to be with you. I mean, the bottom line is that there's no national story at the National Museum of American History. That's what has happened under the ideology that reigns supreme over there. This was not hard to write in a sense because it's all out in the open. The statements of the leadership, their interpretive guidelines, it's very clearly designed. And the key that opened up to me was this word that you touched upon, problematize. When the director said five years ago in the run up to the 250, we need to problematize the 250 in the Declaration of Independence, I was like, what in the world? Who uses that kind of language? Well, that's academic jargon. You take a received narrative, you poke holes in it and you talk about power relationships, who's oppressed, who's the oppressor and you find fault. And at the end of the day, what you wind up with is no American history at the American History Museum. There's very little on the American founding. There's a little bit on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I was over there recently. So there's a little bit of that, but it's very, very heavy on what's wrong with America. It should be called the What's Wrong with America Museum. But again, they have the ruby slippers and the stuff that everyone goes gaga over. But, but the mess, the under, the undercurrent here is unmistakably political. It's unmistakably political. And it's very clear the way that the mission statement was changed from a focus on the infinite richness of American history to creating a just and compassionate future by exploring our past political party. It is. And it's, it's, it's, the words are very clear. They view the Smithsonian and the words of the director as a prime tool of social justice. And that is the mission. And their mission is to create activists to carry out a political program and an ideological program. You asked me this, the thing that I was most surprised about was how much the focus on illegal immigration and legitimizing illegal immigration comes through again and again in their programming. The effect of this kind of ideological capture is to abolish American identity. And the key vehicle and activism that they have to do that is illegal immigration promotion advocacy. They had a, they had a program looking at illegal immigrants. They went to Mexico City to interview people. They lionized somebody who was involved in a legal immigrant group that was involved in defeating a sheriff in an election in North Carolina for the crime of deporting criminal illegal aliens. So this comes through again and again. We are just using the words and the program that they set forth. And we did reach out to the Smithsonian about the report. A spokesperson told us, "For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public and a nonpartisan and independent scholarship and remain committed to doing so." The fact of the matter is this Anthea Hardig is very clear in her little webinars that she's done. She did one with University of California Riverside, I believe, where she discussed her 15 favorite exhibits in the museum. I'm going to repost this on my Instagram page so everyone can watch it. Overwhelmingly, they were negative portrayals of America. I mean, okay, a couple of things, fine. But it's like the Statue of Liberty with a basket of tomatoes about the illegal immigrants. It was, you know, the internment camps. Very little to make people walk away from that museum thinking, "Thank God I'm in this country and not in a gulag in China, or not in an internment camp somewhere else." But it's very, very, very clear when you're there, especially with young people. A lot of superintendents okay school trips to the Smithsonian. And it's an important school trip for kids. No, it's absolutely important. I mean, look, when President Lyndon Johnson dedicated the museum, he said it should focus on the victory of freedom and the genius of our country. You don't find that today. This is on the shortcomings of the country. This is designed in this way to problematize your understanding of American heroes and Americans founding. The Board of Regents, they're not paying attention? I don't think anybody has quite put together the statements, the LG, the interpretive plan. They actually have a woke mandate in their interpretive plan. They say that everything, whatever the topic, has to be brought back to clear ideological categories, race and gender, sexuality, income inequality, climate change. I could do two hours on this. I'm being wrapped by about five people. Vince, great to see you. Thank you for writing this. Every senator and every congressman has got to read this report, go over to the museum, spend time there. I have. And you'll see exactly what you're talking about. We're staying on this topic. Great. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/405/285/675/634/652/original/e2abcc0449ec64a0.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-08T12:45:37.503Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

He posted, without comment, a cable opinion segment, probably Laura Ingraham's, that credits 'the Trump administration' with 'blowing the lid off' the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. It recycles a White House Domestic Policy Council report as an outside exposé, so the post works as self-credit through a borrowed voice. The segment splits national history into reverent artifacts and a museum described as 'part BLM, part anti-ICE, with a little DSA, trans and NEA,' and it mocks the museum's interest in 'the complexity of our past' as disloyalty. Two features go beyond routine culture-war amplification. It introduces a Colorado Democratic candidate by birthplace and 'diversity visa' before labelling her an 'anti-American malcontent.' That matches his own same-morning posts calling Mohammed El-Sayed a 'Terrorist Sympathizer' who 'goes back to the days of the Jihad.' It also names the museum director and a mid-level staffer, Patti Arteaga, to a mass audience as leaders of 'a crusade.' There is no call to action and no dehumanizing vocabulary, so the danger rests on the naming of non-public employees alone. Read with that morning's other posts, the clip belongs to a pre-midterm cluster that defines opponents by origin and alleged anti-Americanism. That is consistent with his campaign-season baseline, not a departure from it. Authorship of the selection cannot be determined from a wordless repost.

## A cable monologue on the Smithsonian, posted without comment

The post is a video with no caption. The transcript reads as a cable-news opinion segment. The host's asides ("Oh my God, it's just all so tedious," "ditto for the pilgrims, natch," "So I gotta say, who voted for this? I didn't") match the format and cadence of Laura Ingraham's Fox monologues. That identification comes from style alone, so it is tentative. The segment uses spliced clips: a doctoral student calling reparations necessary to "tackle white supremacy", a museum staffer describing an "Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative", and a Smithsonian campaign video about protesting "police violence". The host's narration around those clips casts the National Museum of American History as a site of ideological capture. Nothing in the clip is his own speech. What he did was put this segment in front of his audience at 8:29 a.m. Eastern without adding a word.

## What the clip claims for him

The segment's frame credits the administration directly: "this week, the Trump administration is blowing the lid off one of the worst, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History." Reposting it lets the subject take credit through someone else's voice. Since early 2025 he has pursued Smithsonian content through an executive order on "restoring truth" in American history and a White House review of exhibits. In August 2025 he complained that the institution dwelt on "how bad slavery was." The clip makes that campaign look like a discovery by an independent broadcaster. It also cites a "report from the Domestic Policy Council", a White House body, as the evidentiary basis. So the administration's own findings come back to him packaged as outside validation. This is self-promotion by proxy, and it fits a supply-seeking reading more than a reactive one. No injury is visible in the post itself.

The segment's factual scaffolding is mostly checkable. Smithsonian federal appropriations run at roughly a billion dollars a year. The Chief Justice and Vice President sit on the Board of Regents. Senator John Boozman (transcribed "Boosman") is a Regent. Anthea Hartig (transcribed "Hardig") has directed the museum. The charge that the museum presents the founders "through the lens of slavery rather than their contributions" and portrays Christianity "as a force of oppression" is an interpretive characterization from the DPC report. He amplifies those claims without asserting them, so they are discussed here and not entered as his fact checks.

## Splitting a nation's past into loyal and disloyal

The clip's organizing move is splitting. On one side are "our nation's most important museum," "the ruby slippers," "the first telephone." On the other are a museum "part BLM, part anti-ICE, with a little DSA, trans and NEA thrown in." Complexity in history is treated as disloyalty in itself. The host mocks the museum's mission statement for wanting to explore "the complexity of our past" and quotes "loving America is very complicated" as self-evidently damning. Devaluation runs through the segment. The campaign title gets a sarcastic "Don't you love that title?", and the institution's people are cast as training "a new generation of activists."

The opening segment matters most for reading his choice. A Colorado Democratic candidate, probably Melat Kiros (transcribed "Malak Kiroz"), is introduced by birthplace and immigration route: "born in Ethiopia and whose family was allowed to come here courtesy of America's good will, a diversity visa." She is then labelled "over-educated and entitled, and anti-American malcontent." The framing turns her citizenship into a debt of gratitude she has defaulted on. Her grievances are presented as ingratitude ("resentment toward all things American"). The figure of the ungrateful immigrant whose criticism disqualifies her is a projection-adjacent shadow move. The resentment the segment attributes to her is a large share of the subject's own register on the same morning.

## Same morning, same frame

This was not an isolated choice. Earlier on 2026-10-08 he wrote that Michigan candidate Mohammed El-Sayed "goes back to the days of the Jihad" and is a "Terrorist Sympathizer". He mocked James Talarico as "TalaFREAKo" and said "Bad rumors are coming out." The Kiros segment carries the same template into a third race: an opposition candidate defined by foreign origin or alleged anti-Americanism, not by policy. His own written posts that day use first-person epithets. The video does the same work at one remove, with a broadcaster supplying the immigration-status framing he did not have to write. The pattern is a cluster of devaluation aimed at Democratic candidates four weeks before the midterms, and it is consistent with his baseline campaign-season output, not a departure from it.

## Who gets named

Besides the candidate, the segment names Hartig and "top staff such as Patti Arteaga." Arteaga is a mid-level curatorial employee, not a public official, and she gets named to an audience of millions under the framing "a crusade." There is no call to act against anyone, and the language is contemptuous but not dehumanizing. "Malcontent" and "entitled" demean without stripping anyone of personhood. The concern is limited to the targeting. A head-of-state account amplifying a named civil servant, cast as a subversive running a taxpayer-funded institution, puts that person in front of an audience with a documented record of harassing people singled out this way. The rhetorical close, "who voted for this? I didn't," mobilizes resentment but stops short of directing it.

## Order restored, by whom

On the order/chaos axis the clip positions him as an order restorer. Cultural institutions are the corrupt order, "we the people" are the defrauded funders, and the administration is the agent "blowing the lid off." Status flows upward to an idealized patriotic history and the people who revere it. It flows downward to academics ("over-educated"), naturalized critics, and museum professionals. The America 250 year gives this added weight: control of the national museum's narrative during the semiquincentennial is a claim on who authors national memory.

## Who posted it

Because the post has no text, there is nothing to score stylistically. The only evidence is timing and pattern. A media-only repost at 8:29 a.m. Eastern sits inside a same-morning run of first-person campaign attacks and two other wordless posts. Trump has long reposted cable segments himself, especially Fox opinion hosts, but staff also post clips. The attribution concerns who selected the clip, and that evidence does not settle it either way.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 50%)

### Indicators

- No written text: no stylometric evidence available
- Posted 12:29 UTC, about 8:29 a.m. Eastern, an early-morning window he often uses for reposting
- Sits within a same-morning run of first-person attack posts on Democratic candidates and two other media-only posts
- Cable opinion-segment repost is a long-standing personal habit, but also a routine staff task

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 65%
- Agreeableness: 15%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 50%
- Openness: 15%

Strongest facet: Low openness (values rigidity): historical complexity treated as disloyalty

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 25%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Restorer of national memory exposing a captured institution
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Naturalized and academic critics cast as ungrateful anti-Americans, and museum professionals cast as activists

**Identity Claims:**
- His administration is the force 'blowing the lid off' corrupted institutions
- He stands with taxpayers who never 'voted for this'

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Administration's Domestic Policy Council action against the Smithsonian, presented by a broadcaster as an exposé credited to 'the Trump administration')

Sentiment: -0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Borrowed voice of a trusted cable host to validate administration action
- Implied shared 'we the people' ownership of national institutions
- Shared mockery as in-group bonding ('Oh my God, it's just all so tedious')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Names a mid-level museum staffer ('Patti Arteaga') and the museum director to a mass audience under the framing 'a crusade'
- Frames a naturalized-citizen candidate by birthplace and visa category as an 'anti-American malcontent'
- Grievance mobilization ('who voted for this? I didn't') without an explicit call to action

## Tags

- Smithsonian (90%)
- culture war over history (80%)
- America 250 (40%)
- immigrant ingratitude frame (60%)
- Colorado Democratic candidate (50%)
- Fox opinion segment (50%)
- splitting (60%)
- midterms 2026 (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Trump tells Minnesotans to 'fight back' against Somali immigrants, promising federal backup**

Most of the day was midterm campaigning by insult. He tied Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed to "Jihad" and twice suggested that Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, who was out sick with the flu, was hiding something. Around midday he promised not to attack Iran before the November elections. He then turned on reporters over his earlier remark that Iran could hit Los Angeles and San Diego, calling them "Degenerates." The post that stood out came in mid-afternoon: he told Minnesotans their state was being "taken over by Somali Immigrants," that they "must fight back," and to "leave the rest to us." He kept normal hours and ended on a milder complaint about Alaska's ranked-choice voting.

Full digest for 2026-10-08: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-08/analysis

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