Trump Launches 'Patriotic Education’ Commission, Calls 1619 Project 'Ideological Poison’

by 24USATVSept. 18, 2020, 2 a.m. 61
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President Trump on Thursday announced several measures aimed at promoting what he called “patriotic education” while blasting progressive efforts at re-examining American history through a race-critical lens as “toxic propaganda.”

At the White House Conference on American History, Trump took aim at the 1619 Project, a series of essays in the New York Times re-examining America’s legacy of slavery which has become a common foil for right-wing politicians, calling it “ideological poison” that will “dissolve the civic bonds” of America. Trump also called out what he said is “left-wing indoctrination” in schools and curriculum, which he claimed “views every issue through the lens of race" in an effort to impose “tyranny” and “a new segregation.” Trump instead proposed “patriotic education,” applauding a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop, in his words, a” pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation's great history." Trump also announced that he will sign an executive order establishing a commission to “promote patriotic education,” which will be called the “1776 Commission,” in contrast with the 1619 Project. At the conference, Trump – who has often been accused of disregarding the constitution – claimed the left is “attempting to demolish” the constitution and condemned them for a “vicious and violent assault on law enforcement,” which he called “the universal symbol of rule of law in America.” Trump’s executive order was met with fierce backlash from commentators, who recognized it as authoritarian; New York Times opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo tweeted, “Kim Jong Un wasn’t writing him love letters, it was an instructional manual.”

"The narratives about America being pushed by the far left and being chanted in the streets bear a striking resemblance to the anti-American propaganda of our adversaries,” Trump said, alleging “both groups want to see America weakened, derided and totally diminished."

“An important note that as President Trump gears up to attack the 1619 project, [author Nikole Hannah-Jones] is a national treasure who put in context how America came to be, the black enslaved people it exploited and the way forward,” tweeted PBS News White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor. “We should all be grateful for the 1619 Project.”

Trump has been pushing for something strictly prohibited by the constitution in recent weeks. “We're going to win Nevada and we're going to win four more years in the White House. And then after that, we'll negotiate,” Trump said at a rally in Minden, Nevada on Sunday despite the 22nd amendment to the Constitution prohibiting a president from running for a third term. Trump added that he was “probably entitled” to a third term “based on the way we were treated.”

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