That’s what one federal judge says, anyway. In May 2025, implementing an Executive Order by President Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the National Parks to do several things. First, to “identify any public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties…on lands within its jurisdiction that have been removed or changed from January 1, 2020, through the date of this Order…” and determine whether such “alteration or removal of each property was made to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history; inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures; or include any other improper partisan ideology.” If so, the status quo ante the Biden administration was to be restored.
Further, to “review…all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties on lands within its jurisdiction to identify whether any such properties contain images, descriptions, depictions, messages, narratives or other information (content) that inappropriately disparages Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times), or, with respect to content describing natural features, that emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance, or grandeur of said natural feature.” Such inappropriate–i.e., anti-American–content was to be removed.
This was too much for the Democratic Party. In a collusive lawsuit, a Democratic Party district court judge in Massachusetts enjoined implementation of Burgum’s order. So the national parks must disparage America, and anything done by the Biden administration cannot be undone by the Trump administration.
Is that really the law? Of course not. Law professor Ilan Wurman comments:
This order would flunk every part of an administrative law exam. There’s no standing. Plaintiffs have no cause of action. The matter is clearly committed to agency discretion by law. The judge is substituting her own judgment for that of agency. It’s pure lawlessness—and an… https://t.co/TG5rQLm3VX
— Ilan Wurman (@ilan_wurman) June 13, 2026
We have seen this over and over–lawlessness coming from Democratic Party judges who are determined to substitute their party’s ideology (here, anti-Americanism) for the law. Their objective is to run out the clock, to frustrate implementation of the policies Americans voter for until the Trump administration expires at the end of four years.
The Democrats have never accepted the results of the 2024 election or the legitimacy of the Trump administration. They have done everything in their power to undermine our democracy by frustrating the will of the voters as expressed in that election. Which highlights the importance of the 2028 election: if a Democrat wins in 2028, it will be more or less as though the 2024 election had never happened.
