In his remarks Thursday, in observance of Constitution Day at the White House Conference on American History, the president slammed the far left antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters who have been causing mayhem, and tearing down historical statues in many American cities.
"A radical movement is attempting to demolish this treasured and precious inheritance," Trump said. "We can’t let that happen. Left-wing mobs have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials, and carried out a campaign of violence and anarchy.
"Far-left demonstrators have chanted the words 'America was never great.' The left has launched a vicious and violent assault on law enforcement -- the universal symbol of the rule of law in America. These radicals have been aided and abetted by liberal politicians, establishment media, and even large corporations.
“Whether it is the mob on the street, or the cancel culture in the boardroom, the goal is the same: to silence dissent, to scare you out of speaking the truth, and to bully Americans into abandoning their values, their heritage, and their very way of life.
“We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny. We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed,” the president said.
Trump slammed the anti-American indoctrination happening in American institutions.
“The left has warped, distorted and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods and lies. There’s no better example than the New York Times’ totally discredited 1619 Project.”
The 1619 Project, he said, “rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth. America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism and built the most fair, equal and prosperous nation in human history.”
“Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory," Trump said. "This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed.”
“Critical race theory, the 1619 Project and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda -- ideological poison that if not removed will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together,” the president said.
Trump tore into the left-wing Smithsonian Institution.
“A perfect example of critical race theory was recently published by the Smithsonian Institution," he said. "This document alleges that concepts such as hard work, rational thinking and the nuclear family and belief in God were not values that unite all Americans, but were instead aspects of whiteness.
"This is offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity, and it’s especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted not disparaged. Teaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense.”
The president announced a federal “1776 Commission” to promote “patriotic education” to counter the poisonous left-wing anti-American propaganda.