Category: Bigotry

Trump team goes full racist with timeline of White House history

Posted on by Emily Singer

In yet another sign that the Trump administration is filled with the absolute worst human beings, they created a website Thursday to build support for President Donald Trump's hideous and corrupt ballroom.

The website includes a “major events timeline,” which seems normal at first, highlighting the history of White House projects— including its reconstruction after the 1812 fire, the additions of the West Wing in 1902 and the East Wing in 1942, and President Harry Truman’s “total reconstruction” in 1948.

Notably, all of these changes to the White House were done with approval from Congress and historic preservation boards, unlike Trump's ballroom monstrosity.

The last real entry on the timeline is President Richard Nixon’s 1970 conversion of the White House swimming pool into the press briefing room. After that is just a bunch of unhinged garbage thrown together by Trump’s knuckle-dragging minions.

A screenshot of some of the asinine “major events” on the White House’s timeline.

Next on the timeline is a photo from 1998 of President Bill Clinton with White House intern Monica Lewinsky labeled, “Bill Clinton Scandal.”

"President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky was exposed, leading to White House perjury investigations. The Oval Office trysts fueled impeachment for obstruction,” it reads.

The East Wing is demolished to make room for President Donald Trump’s ballroom monstrosity. 

Then there's an utterly racist image of President Barack Obama that appears to be from a trip he took to Kenya in 2006, though it’s labeled on the timeline as occurring in 2012.  

"Obama hosts members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that promotes Islamist extremism and has ties to Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization by nearly a dozen nations,” it says.

Of course, using a totally unrelated image to make Obama look like a scary Muslim is racist beyond words.

But beyond that, it’s not even clear that the Muslim Brotherhood even went to the White House at all. News reports at the time say that Muslim Brotherhood officials met in Egypt with White House aides—not Obama himself. But if they did, is that any worse than Trump planning to meet with the literal Taliban at Camp David?

The timeline then returns to real events with the 2020 construction of the tennis pavilion by first lady Melania Trump before again launching into offensive and unhinged “events.”

Next is an image of Hunter Biden shirtless and smoking a cigarette in a bathtub labeled, "Cocaine Discovered."

"During Biden’s administration, a U.S. Secret Service agent discovered a small, zippered plastic bag containing cocaine in the West Wing entrance lobby. Speculation has pointed to Hunter Biden, an admitted drug user. Additional evidence includes a laptop, seized in 2019, which contains photos of frequent drug use alongside emails about foreign business dealings (Ukraine, China) involving his father, Joe, while he was Vice President," the entry reads.

The White House Rose Garden is paved over to create a gathering spot for President Donald Trump to host dinner parties with his billionaire donor pals.

Of course, it was never determined whose cocaine it was, as it was found in a highly trafficked area where tours are given and could have been anyone’s—including visitors. The Secret Service closed an investigation into the incident without determining a perpetrator. 

Then the timeline takes potshots at transgender people—the right’s new favorite punching bag—by highlighting Trans Day of Visibility.

"The Biden/Harris administration hosts transexuals at the White House in 2023, and goes on to establish the 'The Transgender Day of Visibility' on the same day as Easter Sunday in 2024," it says.

The fact that this trash is on an official White House website is so beyond the pale. And yet, the Trump administration is very proud of this infantile timeline.

"NEW on WhiteHouse.gov—The White House Major Events Timeline," the Trump War Room wrote on X alongside the absolutely unhinged images.

We are living in the worst timeline—literally.

George Washington Should Be Celebrated, Not Canceled – A President’s Day Reminder

Posted on by John Hanson

George Washington is the United States of America’s first president and the father of our country. 

He is a man of legendary stature around the entire globe for his wisdom and bravery.

But today, many on the far-left believe he should be canceled – erased from American culture and history.

It’s incumbent on patriotic Americans to rise to this challenge, and celebrate Washington more than ever.

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Tearing Down Washington

In June 2020, George Washington was the top trending topic on Twitter after his statue was toppled in Portland, Oregon.

The next day, his statue was also defaced in Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park.

There are more examples of leftist attacks on Washington as a symbol of our country and Founding Father. I will spare you the gory details.

Schools named after Washington in various U.S. cities and towns are dropping the name as citizens kowtow to an outrageous and radical “woke” left.

The head of one private all-female prep middle school and high school, Harpeth Hall, in Nashville, Tennessee said that the school’s annual reflection on Washington was “not consistent with or relevant to the way that we teach history today.”

Pure nonsense.

The Greatness Of Washington

Washington helped win the Revolutionary War and served as the first Commander-in-Chief, but there is even more to his grand legacy.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s John Berlau’s book “George Washington: Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father’s Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World” explains how George Washington paved the way for American innovation and dynamism through his business ventures and support of early American inventors.

Berlau explains, “I reveal how excessive British regulation was a big factor in turning him toward revolution.” 

Obviously American independence was crucial to our budding nation. But Berlau also explains how Washington spoke out against the bigots of his time.

“I also show how Washington crusaded against bigotry toward Catholics and Jews and eventually turned against slavery—speaking out against it frequently in letters and freeing all his enslaved workers in his will,” Berlau writes.

On the Harpeth Hall school controversy, Berlau said, “I think it’s very sad but unfortunately typical of what’s going on in the rest of the country.”

He added, “If I were a parent with a student at that school, I would be very disappointed that they were not giving my child a well-rounded education.”

“Washington wasn’t perfect, and It’s fine to teach criticism of him and the other Founding Fathers, but this school official actually says learning about him is irrelevant,” Berlau continued.

If You Cancel Washington, You Might As Well Cancel America Entirely

“But of course, George Washington is relevant if you live in this country, being the father of this country and someone who set up the American system,” he noted. “He took the unheard step of voluntarily giving up power both after the war for independence and then as president, setting the American precedent of peaceful transition of power.”

Berlau emphasized how crucial Washington was for setting the original pace of American values like ingenuity and striving for improvement.

“George Washington was also responsible in many ways for setting up America’s tradition of innovation,” he said. “He was an innovator himself.”

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“Making new plows and creating things like a 16-sided barn. He was the first to bring mules to America. And introducing crop rotation,” he explained.

“Giving up tobacco when he found it was harmful to soil, and planting new crops like weed and hemp,” Berlau continued. “And he was a patron of American inventors both as a private citizen and a president.”

“There are so many things I think that are inspiring today about both George and Martha,” Berlau finished.

I’ve only scratched the surface here. Readers can learn much more in books, like those of Berlau and Ron Chernow.

George Washington should never be canceled. And for those who believe otherwise, you might as well cancel the rest of America too.

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