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."
Trump says it is "a form of child abuse, in the truest sense of those words," to teach children critical race theory.
Trump announces he will be signing an executive order to establish a "national commission to promote patriotic education." He says "it will be called the 1776 Commission," a nod to criticism of the 1619 Project.
Trump repeats his false claim that his order means "you immediately get 10 years in prison" if you destroy a monument. It's not immediate punishment, and that is a maximum *discretionary* penalty - up to judges - in existing federal laws; judges can also just fine people.
Trump announces that one of the people he wants to include in his "vast" statue garden honoring American heroes is Caesar Rodney, Declaration of Independence signer whose statue was removed in Wilmington, Delaware (Biden's city) this year because he was a slaveowner.
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