Trump's "Freedom Trucks"

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/02/trumps-250-program-us-history-mobile-museum/88710565007/

snip:

The new mobile museums hit the road months after Trump accused the government-run Smithsonian Institution of being too "woke" and launched a review of its museums aimed at rooting out "divisive ideology" and promoting "American exceptionalism."

1976-Tall Ships

2026-Tall Tales

[Wicked Blue]

1. I suspect these trucks are a cover for ICE

and will be used to haul in more unfortunates.

[orthoclad]

2. Chile sent one of Pinochet's prison torture ships

for the tall ships parade in '76.

I yelled "Viva Allende" at it. They yelled back "Puta!"

Apologies for anecdote.

[orthoclad]

3. Reich wing propaganda

"Tucked in a less visible spot, another exhibit tells visitors the "foundational principles of America are rooted in Western and Judeo-Christian values.""

...
"At a stop in Nashville during the National Religious Broadcasters annual gathering in February, Marissa Streit, chief executive of the conservative media organization PragerU, was showing visitors through the two-room museum her company helped design.

Streit said references to America's Judeo-Christian roots were an intentional and deliberate part of the truck design, intended to help counterbalance an approach to the nation's history that she said has misled the American public."

[hookaleft]

4. What a bunch of crap

Trump's Freedom 250 hits the road with museum focused on faith, civics
Six mobile history museums, part of President Trump's Freedom 250 program, aim to counter 'woke agenda.' Historians say it leaves out key facts.

NASHVILLE ‒ Slipping inside the semitrailer, visitors find a wall-to-wall display of the watershed moments leading up to the American Revolution and its biggest battles.

Tucked in a less visible spot, another exhibit tells visitors the "foundational principles of America are rooted in Western and Judeo-Christian values."

This 53-foot mobile museum is one of six “Freedom Trucks” traversing the country as ambassadors of President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 program.

At a stop in Nashville during the National Religious Broadcasters annual gathering in February, Marissa Streit, chief executive of the conservative media organization PragerU, was showing visitors through the two-room museum her company helped design.
Streit said references to America's Judeo-Christian roots were an intentional and deliberate part of the truck design, intended to help counterbalance an approach to the nation's history that she said has misled the American public.

“How do we give that experience to people today who want to truly know what’s going on and not learn about what America looked like based on an interpretation of some woke agenda," she said. “We’ve been talking about how intentionally taking the Bible out of the classroom has effectively ruined America’s education system."

[Celerity]

5. A 'Freedom' Truck for Trump at the end of the day will become a 'Gaswagen'

The Nazi Campervans Nicknamed the “Soul Killers”

When the gas was released, victims screamed and knocked on the van’s walls, begging for their lives…

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/gas-van-d009c601c444



It was the time of World War II and the Nazis began executing the horrific plan — the total extermination of Jews, gypsies, and the disabled. Millions of innocent people were murdered in gas chambers, especially in the Auschwitz concentration camp. However, before there were gas chambers, there were gas vans. Nazis killed around 700,000 people using gas vans.

Gas vans were used because Heinrich Himmler vomited

In August 1941, the head of SS Heinrich Himmler attended a mass shooting of Jews in Minsk, Belarus, after which he vomited. Himmler decided that a “less stressful” method of killing was necessary. The Nazis got the inspiration for gas vans when SS officer Arthur Nebe got drunk at the…

The Nazis used two types of trucks as gas vans: small versions with about 3,500 kilograms payload for about 50 persons (Diamond, Opel Blitz, and Renault) and bigger ones with 5,000 kilograms payload for up to 1000 victims (Saurer). The Nazis made the cargo hold of these vans airtight and added a hose which led the exhaust fumes with carbon monoxide into the hold.

Burned-out Magirus-Deutz furniture mover van near Chełmno extermination camp.

[kairos12]

6. Unfortunately, I had the same thought.