Christian nationalist pseudo-historian Tim Barton cheers on Trump's attack on the Smithsonian, saying the museums should not treat slavery a
08/28/2025
by Kyle Mantyla
Earlier this week, Right Wing Watch noted the likelihood that Christian nationalist pseudo-historian was involved in convincing the Trump administration to order a review of exhibits within the Smithsonian Institution to ensure that they conform to and reflect the administration's ideology.
This theory gained more credence when Barton himself admitted on today's episode of "The WallBuilders Show" that he "was up at the White House a week ago and I told them, by far, the most racist and most historically inaccurate museum in Washington, DC, by far, has got to be the museum on African American history."
On today's program, Barton and his son Tim claimed that Smithsonian museums are rife with "anti-American bias" and the exhibits are guided by a "modern Marxist approach" designed to portray "America as a fundamentally flawed and evil nation."
The Barton are particularly upset that the museums seem to have "an obsession with slavery."
"Yes, slavery was part of America's story, but that's not the defining part of America's story," Tim Barton said. "When the story is being told that this is the most significant thing for American history, it's a very dishonest and disingenuous approach because there's so much more to the story than the fact that we had slaves for less than 100 years in our nation's history. That should be really something celebrated that we had slavery for almost the least amount of time in any nation's history in the history of the world. That's a pretty big deal."
