NPR; 'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction

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https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5521261/white-house-ai-founders-museum

A new history exhibit commissioned by the Trump administration has some historians perplexed, as the administration's pushback on arts and history raises questions about omitting marginalized voices in the nation's history.

Eighty-two paintings — including portraits of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as key events from America's founding — make up The Founders Museum.

The exhibit, just steps from the White House inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, marks a partnership between the administration's White House Task Force 250 and conservative nonprofit PragerU to celebrate the lead-up to America's semiquincentennial next year.

Besides paintings of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Betsy Ross, the museum also features over 40 AI-generated short videos of these historical figures coming to life to share their stories — all available online and produced by PragerU.

Prager U having Christopher Columbus explain that slavery isn't really so bad.

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1. ..." commissioned by the Trump administration"--so are tax payers helping to pay for this crap???

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2. ......PragerU openly admits it is not an accredited university. .....

NPR; 'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5521261/white-house-ai-founders-museum


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"Give us five minutes, and we'll give you a semester"

PragerU was founded by longtime conservative radio host Dennis Prager and his then-producer Allen Estrin in 2009 to promote conservative values through courses taught in five-minute videos.
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"We used to say in the early days, 'Give us five minutes, and we'll give you a semester,'" Estrin told The New York Times in 2020.

PragerU openly admits it is not an accredited university. The nonprofit media organization produces thousands of "edutainment" videos on topics from history to science, garnering millions of views.

But PragerU has faced criticism for misleading and inaccurate content, most recently for an episode of its PragerU Kids series, Leo & Layla's History Adventures, in which Christopher Columbus tells two time-traveling siblings, "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem."

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3. "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed"

The many kidnapped Africans who drowned themselves en route to America would have disagreed.

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4. It's hard for me to believe Dennis Prager has been able to position himself like this.

I guess all that GOD MONEY talks.

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5. He is still in bad shape after a fall from a ladder. World will be better off not to hear from his racist pie hole again

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6. Yeah but his operation will keep going. 😡