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US President Donald Trump made the announcement about what he has dubbed “The 1776 Commission,” at the first White House Conference on American History. He said the commission will be aimed at establishing “patriotic” and “pro-America” education that will celebrate American history. In his remarks, Trump criticized the 1619 Project, a New York Times project that explores slavery’s legacy.

US President Donald Trump made the announcement about what he has dubbed “The 1776 Commission,” at the first White House Conference on American History. He said the commission will be aimed at establishing “patriotic” and “pro-America” education that will celebrate American history. In his remarks, Trump criticized the 1619 Project, a New York Times project that explores slavery’s legacy.

  1. Sep 17

    "Today I'm also pleased to announce that I will soon sign an executive order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education. It will be called the 1776 Commission,” Trump says in political speech at National Archives Museum.

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  2. Sep 17

    Trump, speaking at the first "White House Conference on American History," starts talking about the "twisted web of lies" taught in our schools

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  3. Sep 17

    Trump says he will "restore patriotic education to our schools" including a grant to support the development of a "pro-America curriculum" and sign an EO starting a "national commission to support patriotic education" called the 1776 commission

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  4. Sep 17

    "Our youth will be taught to love American with all of their heart and all of their souls," Trump said

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  5. Sep 17

    Trump is reading a speech at the National Archives Museum criticizing the left's approach to the study of history, complaining of the New York Times' 1619 Project, critical race theory, and "propaganda tracts like those of Howard Zinn."

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  6. Sep 17

    Trump just went after the Smithsonian for pushing ‘Critical Race Theory,’ calling it child abuse ‘in the truest sense of those words.’ Two-thirds of the Smithsonian’s funding comes from the federal government.

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    Trump just went after The Smithsonian for pushing ‘Critical Race Theory,’ calling it child abuse ‘in the truest sense of those words.’
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  7. Sep 17

    I tried to ask why Trump was establishing his commission on patriotic education now just weeks from the election. After all, he’s had four years. Her press team shooed me away.

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  8. Sep 17

    Pres Trump claims the 1619 project distorts and "rewrites" American history. He says the project wrongly says America was founded on "oppression not freedom." Fact: At America's founding, kidnapped enslaved black people were exploited. The consequences of slavery continue today.

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  9. Sep 17

    In the face of Trump attacks on critical race theory, Terri N. Watson suggests that educators reinforce their support of it by recognizing that "differences are not deficits" and demanding that schools are equitably funded.

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  11. Sep 17

    NEW: Trump announces the 1776 Commission, aimed at establishing what he calls "patriotic" and "pro-America" education that will celebrate the "miracle" of American history. Re-examinations of U.S. history, he said, are "ideological poison."

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