Here Are The Craziest Examples Of What’s Happening At The Smithsonian

The Smithsonian museums are home to millions of treasures. And heaps of utter garbage. 

The White House published a round-up of the Smithsonian’s greatest offenses to sanity, amid President Donald Trump’s probe into the institution. (RELATED: Trump Admin Trying To Wave Goodbye To Propaganda Effort Across America’s Parks, Historic Sites)

Begin with the infamous infographic defining “white culture,” which includes the sinister values of “hard work,” “self-reliance,” “plan[ning] for the future,” and “be[ing] polite.”

The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more. (via @RpwWilliams)https://t.co/k9X3u4Suas pic.twitter.com/gWYOeEh4vu

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 15, 2020

You probably don’t need me to write that joke. 

One wonders how white values differ from those of “animated Latinos and Latinas with disabilities.” Disabled hispanics star in an animated program from The National Museum of the American Latino. The video features fat latinos, muslim latinos, latinos missing body parts, cross-dressing latinos, and more. 

In fairness, a guy seriously wearing a dress is definitely disabled, if only in diminished judgement and character. 

Non-disabled latinos are the subject of an oil painting proudly displayed in the National Portrait Gallery: A family bravely trespassing into the United States over the Southern border wall. The mother and child are blondish. The father might be latino. The older son looks vaguely Asian. (RELATED: Decades Long Race-Baiting Gambit Blows Up In Left’s Face)

Three cheers for multicultural border-hopping. 

One wonders what homeland security looks like in an “immersive, feminist and sacred aquatopia,” an exhibit imagining the “powerful underwater world of African spirits” in the National Museum of African Art.

The museum explains the exhibit as an “underwater kingdom populated by the children of pregnant women who had been thrown overboard or jumped into the ocean during the Middle Passage.”

Imagine the pitch meeting: “Atlantis, but full of dead African babies.”

Artist pulls art from Smithsonian gallery after museum tries to alter her trans Statue of Liberty painting https://t.co/9GerKbh9AW pic.twitter.com/JJ7IZgiLX4

— New York Post (@nypost) July 25, 2025

It was probably the same meeting where “The Statue of Liberty, but black and trans” made the cut. 

I’ll leave you with one more exhibit, though there are scores more examples to mock.

The National Portrait Gallery commissioned artist Hugo Crosthwaite to produce a stop motion play-by-play of Anthony Fauci’s career. Don’t expect any drawings of dead puppies. Nor any allusions to any other allegations against the good doctor.

There are two good uses for “art” of this sort. The first is kitty litter. The second is to remember the strange and hideous religion dominating American life until a few moments ago.

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