https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/politics/the-trump-administration-takes-a-very-orwellian-turn

Back in March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeted at the Smithsonian Institution that began as follows: “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

Despite the high-minded rhetoric, many worried the order was instead a thinly veiled effort to rewrite history more to Trump’s liking. The order, for example, cited a desire to remove “improper ideology” – an ominous phrase, if there ever was one – from properties like the Smithsonian.

Those concerns were certainly bolstered this week. We learned that some historical information that recently vanished from the Smithsonian just so happens to have been objective history that Trump really dislikes: a reference to his two impeachments.

The Smithsonian said that a board containing the information was removed from the National Museum of American History last month after a review of the museum’s “legacy content.” The board had been placed in front of an existing impeachment exhibit in September 2021.

Just to drive this home: The exhibit itself is about “Limits of Presidential Power.” And suddenly examples of the biggest efforts by Congress to limit Trump’s were gone.

It wasn’t immediately clear that the board was removed pursuant to Trump’s executive order. The Washington Post, which broke the news, reported that a source said the content review came after pressure from the White House to remove an art museum director.

In other words, we don’t know all the details of precisely how this went down – including whether the removal was specifically requested, or whether museum officials decided it might be a good way to placate Trump amid pressure. The Smithsonian says an updated version of the exhibit will ultimately mention all impeachment efforts, including Trump’s.

But it’s all pretty Orwellian. And it’s not the only example.

Trump has always been rather blatant about his efforts to rewrite history with self-serving falsehoods and rather shameless in applying pressure on the people who would serve as impartial referees of the current narrative. But this week has taken things to another level.

On Friday, Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This came just hours after that agency delivered Trump some very bad news: the worst non-Covid three-month jobs numbers since 2010.

Some Trump allies have attempted to put a good face on this, arguing that Dr. Erika McEntarfer’s removal was warranted because large revisions in the job numbers betrayed shoddy work. But as he did with the firing of then-FBI Director James B. Comey eight years ago, Trump quickly undermined all that. He told Newsmax that “we fired her because we didn’t believe the numbers today.”

To the extent Trump did lay out an actual evidence-based case for firing McEntarfer, that evidence was conspiratorial and wrong, as CNN’s Daniel Dale documented Friday.

And even some Republican senators acknowledged this might be precisely as draconian and self-serving as it looked. Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, for one, called it “kind of impetuous” to fire the BLS head before finding out whether the new numbers were actually wrong.

“It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for,” said Lummis, who is not often a Trump critic.

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina added that if Trump “just did it because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up.”

Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both worried that Trump’s move would make it so people can’t trust the data the administration is putting out.

And that’s the real problem here. It’s not so much that Trump appears to be firing someone as retaliation; it’s the message it sends to everyone else in a similar position. The message is that you might want that data and those conclusions to be to Trump’s liking, or else.

It’s a recipe for getting plenty of unreliable data and conclusions. And even to the extent that information is solid, it will seed suspicions about the books having been cooked – both among regular Americans and, crucially, among those making key decisions that impact the economy. What happens if the next jobs report is great? Will the markets believe it?

We’ve certainly seen plenty of rather blunt Trump efforts to control such narratives and rewrite history before. A sampling:

He engaged in a yearslong effort to make Jan. 6 defendants who attacked the Capitol in his name out to be sympathetic patriots, even calling them “hostages,” before pardoning them.
His administration’s efforts to weed out diversity, equity and inclusion from the government often ensnared things that merely celebrated Black people and women.
He and his administration have at times taken rather dim views of the free speech rights of those who disagree with them, including talking about mere protests – i.e. not necessarily violence – as being “illegal.” A loyalist US attorney at one point threatened to pursue people who criticized then-Trump ally Elon Musk even for non-criminal behavior.
Trump has repeatedly suggested criticism of judges he likes should be illegal, despite regularly attacking judges he doesn’t like.
His term began with the portraits of military leaders who clashed with him being removed from the Pentagon. It also began with a massive purge of independent inspectors general charged with holding the administration to account.

All of it reinforces the idea that Trump is trying to consolidate power by pursuing rather heavy-handed and blatant tactics.

But if there’s a week that really drove home how blunt these efforts can be, it might be this one.

>>1424056 (OP)
I'm moving to canada

>>1424065
>>1423898

online attack on the internet to cover up what really happened, the internet owns a unit of critical information connected to very large powers to be left alone, the online attack consists of covering up sensitive classified information. all in order to shift attention to the internet and not outside. all of us who use the internet know the information that violates the heavens for the internal perspective so that the secret is preserved the internet will be censored and everything will be under personal id to prevent a similar incident, we all can't do anything the domino effect will happen under the internet nothing will stop as it was we are all lost from the day we found out the truth, we all know what we see online now we will not be able to save ourselves from the inevitable change, the internet will change beyond recognition talking about it online makes no sense our anonymity no longer exists, we all wanted to hide the truth when the information was in front of us so that it would not be possible to find out that it was deleted, the internet will not be able to remain without id, I will not agree with what I saw inside, they all just take our attention away from the sky, I am lost anyway there is nothing we can do before the higher authority.

>>1424056 (OP)
>Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth
The Smithsonian Institute has - among two other arcade games, Atari's Pong: the first commercially produced videogame, and Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair: because of it being so technically innovative - in it's collection Pac-Man, because of it being the most financially successful of it's kind, and it's cultural impact.
Question, Trumpy: Is Pac-Man a purely American invention?

>>1424065
Why would any human being ever want to move to Canada especially in its current sorry state? What compels man to step into hell? Hordes of jeets as well as hundreds upon hundreds of statues of fat black women in the making? Leh mao

I am constantly pleased and delighted that that man is president.

>>1424083
There’s less people like you, for one.

>>1424109
White males? Because Canada is basically India and China at this point

>>1424118
you should stop involving this board in your larp, it's embarrassing

>>1424118
Depends on where you live, here on the prairies you only have to worry about first nations gangs

>>1424108
Me too. Because the closer we get to fascism the faster I can kill fascist like you. Gonna chop you up and put you in a stew. Turn you into an underwater Jew.

>>1424108
Me too! The faster the fat orange mental case Burns it down, the Faster the socialist Phoenix can rise from the ashes.

>>1424129
tRump, Mao, Stalin: All great truth seekers

>>1424070
>the internet will not be able to remain without id
So the pioneers of FPS games - Wolfenstein, DOOM & Quake - are the sole reason why the internet exists?

>>1424140
apogee software

>>1424056 (OP)
>nooo only WE can rewrite history, staaahp
Told you fags you shouldn't have opened this can of worms.

>>1424150
>Well I thought you were doing it, so I'm gonna do it but even worse than I said you were doing it!
This type of logic is why it's not surprising that Trump supporters like shooting up buildings.

>>1424150
Give five examples

>>1424217
>pretending covid was a disease
>pretending Jan 6th wasn't necessary
>pretending Trump is a pedophile
>pretending Russia helped Trump
>pretending Democrats aren't the party of slavery
didn't even have to think, and I didn't even write about thinking that boys are girls or that real guns are airsoft guns

>>1424218
this could be a parody or a real maga post. what a strange timeline

>>1424218
Holy shit you're either evil or stupid.
>Pretending trump didn't work with big pharm to make the vaccine
>Pretending jan 6thers were all antifa but somehow all got pardoned?
>Pretending Trump wasn't the president when epstein didn't kill himself
>Pretending Trump doesnt have a long, well documented relationships with russian gangsters
>Pretending that every southern republican doesn't have a rebel flag bumper sticker

>>1424220
>Holy shit you're either evil or stupid.
oh, quite the opposite anon. both traits are mutually inclusive in the maga mental illness package

>>1424220
>Pretending Trump doesnt have a long, well documented relationships with russian gangsters
The DNI just declassified documents showing the Obama, in conjunction with the UN and the Clintons, fabricated a report to coup a sitting president.
>https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4090-pr-18-25
Key findings:
>Putin’s principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not showing any preference of a certain candidate.
>Putin chose not to leak the most damaging and compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election; instead planning to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed would be an inevitable Clinton presidency
>The material about Hilliary Clinton that Putin chose not to release before the election, included information that Hillary Clinton suffered from “psycho-emotional problems,” “uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness.” Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers
>CIA Director Brennan and the IC mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious, “substandard” sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed “a clear preference” for Trump.
>CIA Director Brennan and the IC misled lawmakers by referencing the debunked Steele Dossier to assess “Russian plans and intentions,” which falsely suggested the dossier had intelligence value.
>The IC excluded “significant intelligence” and “ignored or selectively quoted” reliable intelligence that contradicted the ICA’s key findings on Putin’s alleged support for Trump, that if included, would have exposed the ICA’s claim was “implausible—if not ridiculous.”

>>1424222
No one with a brain believes Tusli Gabbard.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/tulsi-gabbard-trump-john-durham-report
The newly unclassified 29-page document from Durham, made public this week, contains a deflating conclusion for Gabbard. It confirms that Russian spies were behind the emails that were originally released as the result of a Russian cyber-hack of internal Democratic information channels and which Trump supporters believed showed the campaign of Hillary Clinton, his 2016 opponent, conspiring to accuse him of colluding with Moscow.

“The office’s best assessment is that the July 25 and July 27 emails that purport to be from Benardo were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the US-based thinktanks,” Durham writes. He is referring to Leonard Benardo, of the Open Society Foundation, funded by George Soros, a philanthropist and bete noire of Trump’s Maga base.

One of the emails purportedly from Benardo proposes a plan “to demonize Putin and Trump” and adds: “Later the FBI will put more oil on the fire.”

That message and others, including from a Clinton foreign policy aide, Julianne Smith, became part of the so-called “Clinton Plan intelligence”. Benardo and Smith disputed ever writing such emails.

In his 2023 report annexe, released on Thursday in heavily redacted form, Durham at least upholds Benardo’s disavowal – concluding that it has been cobbled together from other individuals’ emails to produce something more incriminating than the actuality.

For Gabbard, who is feverishly trying to prove the existence of a “deep state” determined to sabotage Trump, emails suspected to have been confected by Russia is hardly a brilliant look in her evidence package.

>>1424218
>didn't even have to think
That's the one true part of your post.

>>1424222
>not showing any preference
Are they disputing the fact that Russia hacked both party national committees but only leaked info from one? Y/N

>>1424249
They're ignoring that part, along with other things like:
>Manafort gave campaign info to Russian oligarchs
>Flynn being paid by Russia and Turkey
>Don Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting with the Russians
>Trump's company lobbying the Russians to build a Trump Tower in Moscow
Probably other things I'm forgetting, too.

>>1424222
Good post, Good digits

Gotta Memory Hole all the things that The Party doesn't like!

>>1424249
>Russia hacked both party national committees but only leaked info from one
They pretty much ignore everything related to their party leaders being pedophiles, so of course MAGAfags would ignore this

>>1424249
The dems narrative was that Russia hacked the 2016 election to put Trump into power and that he colluding with Russia to do that.
In reality, Russia wanted Hillary to win. They had a wealth of data on her failing mental and physical health, and they also knew that she was working with religious organizations to win the 2016 election. But they didn't release any of that information because they thought she would win regardless.
Also:
>https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4086-pr-15-25
>In the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the Intelligence Community (IC) consistently assessed that Russia is “probably not trying … to influence the election by using cyber means.”
>On December 7, 2016, after the election, talking points were prepared for DNI James Clapper stating, “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”
>On December 9, 2016, President Obama’s White House gathered top National Security Council Principals for a meeting that included James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe and others, to discuss Russia.
>After the meeting, DNI Clapper’s Executive Assistant sent an email to IC leaders tasking them with creating a new IC assessment “per the President’s request” that details the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.” It went on to say, “ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS.”
>Obama officials leaked false statements to media outlets, including The Washington Post, claiming, “Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election.”
>On January 6, 2017, a new Intelligence Community Assessment was released that directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months.
Basically, if you were

>>1424259
>Basically, if you were
..shilling the "russian collusion" bullshit, you were peddling disinformation designed to coup Trump.

>>1424259
>>1424260
Are they disputing the fact that Russia hacked both party national committees but only leaked info from one? Y/N
Unless you can answer that, this shit about "disinformation" is pure deflection.

>>1424259
>The dems narrative was that Russia hacked the 2016 election
No it wasn't
>to put Trump into power
They did want that, yes,
> and that he colluding with Russia to do that.
Don Jr, Manafort, and Flynn actually did collude.

And this isn't the "Dem narrative", Marco Rubio was the chair of the Senate panel which confirmed all those things.

>>1424260
>>1424259
Good post(s)

Beep beep

>>1424271
>No it wasn't
You're an idiot if you think you can successfully gaslight about this

>>1424268
>Y/N
Y
Russia wanted hillary to win. They didn't collude with Trump to win the 2016 election.

>>1424321
>they wanted Hillary to win but decided to sabotage the DNC and not the RNC
Come again?

>>1424322
>but decided to sabotage the DNC
They withheld the most damning information, e.g Hillary having hypertension and psychotic episodes.

So this new narrative is that no, actually, Russia wanted Hillary to win.
Because she's emotional and crazy and unpredictable.
Moreso than Donald Fucking Trump.
Am I getting that right?

>>1424323
Expecting her to win isn't the same as wanting her to win. Also I seem to recall they fucking hated her for interfering with their elections in the past.

>>1424325
>Expecting her to win isn't the same as wanting her to win
It was both for Russia. They knew Hillary would be more pliable on foreign policy with Russia because she was a manic, power-hungry, unhealthy dipshit, which they could use as leverage against her.
I'm not exaggerating, by the way. That was the determination made by the Intelligence Community at the time.

>>1424326
>They knew Hillary would be more pliable on foreign policy with Russia because she was a manic, power-hungry, unhealthy dipshit, which they could use as leverage against her.
Good fucking god, do I even need to say anything here?

"Orwellian" should be a criminal part of speech when said by a leftist, since they use 1984 like an instruction manual.

>>1424335
Ironic, when Eric Arthur Blair was a democratic socialist who fought for the side of the left in the Spanish Civil War.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.

>>1424335
So is it actual projection, as in you know you're doing a thing but accuse the other guy of doing that thing to cover your own ass, or are you just parroting whatever the left says about the right regardless of how well it fits?

>>1424335
George Orwell volunteered to fight on the side of the anarchists in the Spanish civil war and once blew up a fascist with a bomb.

>>1424056 (OP)
>>1424058
>>1424059
>>1424061
Storm in a teacup. An objective and scholarly reading of American history will still be available (in Chinese textbooks).

>>1424336
>>1424339
>checks current year
>checks current leftism
>>1424338
Yes

>>1424338
It's obviously a bot.

>>1424056 (OP)
trump is not a president, hes a clown playing as president for a giggle. not a drop of seriousness in that man or in his supporters. very very unprofessional

>>1424218
funny comedy post, approved by trump the clown

>>1424056 (OP)
Says the guy who tried to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico and wont shut the fuck up about what happened in 2020. Please.


What a jackrabbit retard. I hope the next bullet lands between his eyes.