Each week, we get a new outrage from the left on something Trump has done. You can throw a dart, and they're outraged about something. Perhaps the strangest among these is the outrage at the orders demanding that the Smithsonian Museums clean up their act. This order is not only a good thing, it's a need as America prepares for its 250th anniversary.

The Wall Street Journal discovered the decision in a letter to the Smithsonian museums. "In a letter sent to Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three top White House officials said they want to ensure the museums present the 'unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story' and reflect the president's executive order calling for 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.'"

If you look back, the President's original executive order blasted a leftist understanding of history, which we've seen play out in the streets. The order states, "Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light."

Trump's executive order doesn't name it, but one of the targets of this exercise is to ensure the ahistorical, revisionist history known as the 1619 Project isn't one of the driving forces of the Smithsonian exhibits. The 1619 Project and other leftist projects like it, during the peak of the far-left craze of the 2020 era, led to mass demonstrations where Founding Father statues were targeted for vandalism and attack.

It's not that the 1619 project was just wrong factually; it was, according to the best takedown of it, a racialist falsification of history. That debunking was not written by conservatives, libertarians, or any centrist. The World Socialist Website wrote that history, blasting into tiny bits.

One historian wrote, "The controversy over the serious flaws in the 1619 Project's accounts of American history began with the WSWS's interviews of numerous highly distinguished liberal and left scholars. Their calm and precise critiques and others met with no rebuttal, only evasive dismissal by the project's overseers. Even now, despite 'clarification' and silent editing, glaring factual errors remain in the project's materials. This volume vindicates W. E. B. Du Bois's condemnation of propaganda disguised as history.'"

As the Heritage Foundation noted earlier this year, the Smithsonian's previous leadership aligned itself closely with the 1619 project and many other far-left agenda items. And you don't have to look hard to find those kinds of events under the old Smithsonian leadership.

What's most damning about that entire episode is that The New York Times was told, by fact checkers and historians, during the process of creating the 1619 project, that what they were making was fake history. The Times ignored those checks.

Trump's order and ensuring the Smithsonian is ready for the 250th anniversary is literally about ensuring sanity in the nation's history telling. The Democratic Party claims, with some level of unbelievable audacity, that it is fighting tyranny these days. But they are the ones inventing history and trying to pass it off as serious scholarly work. The demand is that everyone swallow it hook, line, and sinker - no matter the facts invented.

Stalin just erased people from pictures. Only the left has come up with the bold idea to reinvent history itself, and then claim anyone who questions them believes fake news. It's an impressive kind of gaslighting. It's not history, and it's not a celebration of America.

I'm all for examining American history and identifying all our good and bad moments. The United States is not a perfect country by any stretch. We do not claim to be.

We do claim to be exceptional, however. And history does prove that point. The United States of America is, and continues to be, one of the sole global powers to ever exist in history. However long this era of history lasts, we will be in history in the line of Greece, Rome, and more.

That we've become this in a scant 250 years is the astonishing part in history. Most great powers before us took many centuries to build up their power. We stand atop the entire world, amassing one of the greatest militaries and technological superpowers the world has ever seen. We won the Cold War without a bullet being fired, and are trying to do the same with China.

The 1619 project and all the leftist garbage that has followed it do not reflect history. It's a string of opinion columns by a set of people who hate the country and everyone in it. It should not be a part of any curriculum in any school, and definitely should not be a part of any Smithsonian exhibit.

At a bare minimum, the Smithsonian should celebrate actual history. The Trump administration's demand that these museums do that is a necessity.