President Donald Trump set his sights on “History worth teaching” as an exit at the Smithsonian paved the way for an exhibit and “colossus” honoring a Founding Father ahead of a milestone date.
“Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist.”
The administration’s ongoing mission to “Make America Great Again” inherently calls on the roots of the nation as inspiration for a path forward. Now, as a purge of woke ideology led to a resignation at the Smithsonian, the president sought to gear up for the 300th anniversary of George Washington’s birth with an exhibit and permanent statue to replace a “strange modernist sculpture.”
Friday, Trump called attention to a sculpture that had been displayed at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix as he used Truth Social to request the Smithsonian launch a five-year exhibit leading to Washington’s tricentennial while proposing a statue nearly triple the size be commissioned for permanent display.
“I am calling on the Smithsonian Institution to honor the Life and Legacy of George Washington, America’s Greatest Hero, with a five-year exhibition at the National Museum of American History, beginning now, and continuing through, February 22, 2032, the 300th anniversary of Washington’s birth,” wrote the president. “I am also calling on the Smithsonian to erect a 30-foot ‘Colossus statue’ of the Father of Our Country outside the Museum, to replace the so-called ‘Infinity’ sculpture that stands there today.”
“That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America, inspires no one, and honors none of our Great American Heroes,” he contended of the möbius strip-style sculpture. “George Washington does. He is easily America’s Greatest Hero. Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist.”
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is having the Smithsonian install a BEAUTIFUL George Washington statue at the Flag Hall — the same one that was at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix
Trump is moving to HONOR OUR HEROES again, not attack America’s past 👏🏻
47 is REPLACING an existing… pic.twitter.com/oHpNr5yazk
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 12, 2026
The statue of Washington in question was crafted by Atelier Missor, the same French foundry erecting a statue of Prometheus at Starbase, Texas.
Very honored to have built the bronze statue of George Washington for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C.
America is incredible. https://t.co/VE7t3pks9A pic.twitter.com/K6ef3rI6uq
— Atelier Missor (@AtelierMissor_) August 24, 2026
Trump’s post further called out the museum for failing to celebrate the Founding Fathers sufficiently as the nation’s semiquincentennial was marked, a reality juxtaposed against things like the “Center for Restorative History” and a “Decolonization Plan” that came under Lonnie Bunch III.
“Our current exhibit describes the period of 1492 to 1776, including Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World, and the European settlement of America, as the ‘Great Unsettling’ of the Continent,” wrote the president. “That tells you all you need to know about how twisted the thinking is today at the Smithsonian.”
This week, Bunch tendered his resignation as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in the wake of Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum notifying the board of alleged evidence “that the Smithsonian leadership’s institutional culture may have resulted in significant violations of Federal antidiscrimination law, including creating a hostile work environment and engaging in practices that classify individuals and allocate opportunities, funding and other benefits on the basis of race, ethnicity and other protected characteristics.”
Pushing for a “Center for American Heroes,” the chief executive, who previously called for a “Garden of Heroes,” suggested, “Tell the stories of Americans who faced great challenges, overcame them, built great things, defended our Country, made America better, and helped our Nation more fully live up to our Founding Ideals.”
“That is a History worth teaching, because it is America’s story,” he concluded, in part adding, “… there is no better person to start with than George Washington.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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