In a report devoted to complaining about President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the imposition of woke ideology at the Smithsonian, Univision made a huge and puzzling omission: the fledgling National Museum of the American Latino.
That doesn’t mean that we don’t have an absurd soundbite for you, though. Here’s D.C. correspondent Edwin Pitti bemoaning the fact that Trump wants to remove men, “trans women” as they are called here, from the Smithsonian American Women’s Museum.
EDWIN PITTI: The president wants museums to be aligned with his government. For example, in the case of the American Women's History Museum, Trump does not want them to recognize transgender women.
As I’ve often said with regards to Spanish-language news media: if your business model depends on a continuously broken border, your enterprise will align with politicians that can deliver that and you will eventually fall in line on everything else. This is how Univision ends up championing not just a broken border but abortion, gun confiscation, euthanasia, and now the Smithsonian’s inclusion of exhibits featuring “trans women” (or, to be more precise, MEN) in a women’s museum.
What is left out of these reports is often substantial- more so than what actually makes it in. Like in freshman year art class, when you get taught to look at the empty spaces. In this case, from the executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”:
The forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports.
The report is also critical of what Trump wants to change at the National Museum of African American history. Again, from the executive order:
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that “hard work,” “individualism,” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.”
These omissions strongly suggest that Pitti didn’t read the executive order prior to running with the story, instead going off of some activist’s one-pager. That reasonable theory gains credence when also considering that at no point does the executive order make reference to “progressive left ideology”. Throughout the EO we have references to ideology as “improper”, “improper partisan”, “corrosive”, and “divisive race-centered”, but none as “progressive left.” Either Pitti didn’t read the order or he thinks his viewers are morons. Or both.
Missing from the report is the monstrosity derisively known as the “National Latinx Museum”, an absurdity intended to radicalize Hispanics and permanently alienate them from Mainstream America.
None of that makes it into the report, intended to inflame and aggrieve but not actually inform.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on Noticiero Univision on Friday, March 28th, 2025:
ILIA CALDERON: For more than 175 years, Smithsonian museums have documented American history in all its nuance, but now they are in the government's crosshairs. Edwin Pitti tells us why.
EDWIN PITTI: “Restoring Truth and Sanity in American History.” That's the name of the executive order President Trump signed to purge the Smithsonian museums of a culture he says is divisive and anti-American.
JUAN ELIEL GARCIA: No one can deny that the United States lived a very dark time when we were allowing and living with slaves. But we also have to recognize that this history is from the past.
PITTI: The order asks Vice President JD Vance to eliminate from the 21 museums and 14 study centers an ideology that the White House calls “progressive left.”
MARIBEL BALBIN: History is history. You can't erase history. The fact that those things are not happening in the horrible way that they were happening at that time does not mean that they do not, do not have to be studied.
PITTI: The president wants museums to be aligned with his government. For example, in the case of the American Women's History Museum, Trump does not want them to recognize transgender women. And in the museum that tells the harsh history of African Americans, not to use narratives that divide the country. A very close source who holds a high position here at the National Museum of African American History tells me that what President Trump criticizes them for is something they published on their website, but he also tells me that they are not obligated to implement the changes that The White House wants, and it is for two reasons. The first is that many of the Smithsonian's employees do not work for the federal government, and also that much of its funding comes from private donations.
SULMA ACEVEDO: No, I believe that museums should be preserved because that is the history of humanity at any time, so that should be preserved. No matter what.
CONSTANZA ZAMBRANO: Those who do not know their history will not be able to live correctly for the future.
PITTI: The order says the Interior Secretary must repair federal property, parks and monuments, including statues of Confederate generals that had been removed. In Washington, D.C: Edwin Pitti. Univision.
CALDERON: With all its nuances, but it is the history of this country.
