The Trump administration has finally dropped the hammer on the Smithsonian Institution after discovering your tax dollars are funding exhibits that paint America as the villain in its own story.

The Entertainment Nation exhibit at the National Museum of American History is not just rewriting history, but drenching history in woke paint thinner until nothing recognizable remains.

Mickey Mouse, the cartoon rodent who delighted generations, is now on trial for racial crimes. According to these taxpayer-funded placards, his “outsized facial features, white gloves, and trickster temperament were vestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy.”

Even Mickey is now racist.

What about the Lone Ranger? Just American imperialism in a mask, apparently because “the white title character’s relationship with Tonto resembled how the U.S. government imagined itself the world’s Lone Ranger.”

Even circus posters were described in terms of “the colonial impulse to claim dominion over the world.” So much for cotton candy and clowns: turns out you were actually attending Imperialism Under Canvas all those years.

Thankfully the Trump administration is finally saying enough. White House official Lindsey Halligan cut through the nonsense: “American taxpayers should not be funding institutions that undermine our country or promote one-sided, divisive political narratives. The Smithsonian Institution should present history in a way that is accurate, balanced, and consistent with the values that make the United States of America exceptional.”

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order directs the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents to purge “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” from the organization.

Mickey is now safe from Marx.

“Framing American culture as inherently violent, imperialist, or racist does not reflect the greatness of our nation or the millions of Americans who have contributed to its progress,” Halligan continued.

We need to be crystal clear about what is happening here. The progressive left is not interested in museums: they want indoctrination centers. They need Americans to hate their own culture before they can rebuild the culture in their Marxist image.

The formula is simple: make Mickey Mouse a racist, make the circus colonial, and pretty soon America itself becomes irredeemable. Thankfully this administration still believes our country is actually worth saving.