ICONIC CIVIL RIGHTS LUNCH COUNTER RIPPED OUT OF SMITHSONIAN
“They’re scrubbing the truth from American history,” one furious insider tells #ShuterScoop. “This is disgusting.”
In a move that’s left historians, lawmakers, and civil rights leaders outraged, Donald Trump’s team has launched a shock campaign to gut the National Museum of African American History and Culture — starting with the removal of the iconic Woolworth’s lunch counter that marked a turning point in the civil rights movement.
The exhibit, which honors the 1960 sit-in protest by four Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, has been a cornerstone of the so-called “Blacksonian” since the museum’s opening. But now it’s being torn out — on direct orders from Trump, who insiders say wants “less woke history” on display.
“This president is a master of distraction,” fumes Rep. Alma Adams of North Carolina. “He’s destroying what took 250 years to build.”
Meet Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s trusted fixer and former Miss Colorado USA contestant — now spearheading what insiders are calling “The Smithsonian Purge.” She has zero museum experience, but that hasn’t stopped her from marching into the hallowed halls of American history with an agenda.
Sources tell #ShuterScoop Halligan is working directly with Vice President JD Vance to remove anything they deem “improper ideology” — aka, anything that suggests racism ever existed in America.
Trump’s executive order, signed quietly last month, is titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Critics say it’s a blatant attempt to whitewash the past and pander to his far-right base in an election year.
“They’re trying to erase Black pain and Black progress,” a museum staffer whispers. “First the lunch counter. What’s next? Rosa Parks? The March on Washington?”
The lunch counter — a powerful symbol of peaceful protest — is just the beginning. Sources say Trump wants to strip the Blacksonian and other Smithsonian museums of exhibits that touch on race, gender equality, or LGBTQ+ rights.
“This is state-sanctioned erasure,” says one museum curator. “They’re using taxpayer dollars to rewrite history.”
The backlash has been swift. Civil rights groups are mobilizing. A Change.org petition demanding the counter remain on display has garnered over 500,000 signatures in 24 hours. Even former First Lady Michelle Obama is said to be “deeply disturbed” by the move.
“This is exactly why we need this museum,” said a staffer. “Because they want us to forget.”
#ShuterScoop will keep digging as the purge unfolds — but one thing is clear: history is under attack. And the White House is holding the eraser.