Biden’s Judge Orders Trump to Restore ‘Inappropriate Party Ideas’ to America’s Parks
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A federal judge appointed by Biden has ordered the Trump administration to restore displays and other items in national parks that highlight slavery, climate change and other extremist views after they were removed under an order targeting displays deemed derogatory to America.
US District Judge Angel Kelley in Massachusetts, appointed to the federal bench by former President Joe Biden in 2021, issued a preliminary injunction on Friday requiring the administration to reverse the changes and halt any removals amid legal challenges.
The move comes amid the America 250 celebrations that will run through July 4.
The Interior Department in a statement called Kelley a “libertarian activist judge” and said it was reviewing its options to challenge her removal for what Secretary Doug Burgum criticized as “inappropriate partisan views.”
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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and President Donald Trump wanted to get rid of the ‘party stereotypes,’ but former President Joe Biden reprimanded that a ‘liberal activist’ ordered them back. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump’s March 27, 2025 executive order, titled, “Restoring Truth and Cleanliness in American History,” sought to restore American heritage to national parks and monuments “that have been altered to further a false reconstruction of American history” after the 2020 race riots that may have ultimately helped propel Biden’s election.
Trump ordered the Interior to “take action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law,” to ensure that all interpretations of the US government, images “do not unfairly disparage Americans past or living” – instead the focus is on the “greatness” of America.
While Kelley wrote that the plaintiffs showed that the administration’s actions were aimed at “rewriting the history of the Nation with a white pen,” Trump said he issued the order because of the “false reconstruction” of American history under Biden, the president-elect.
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Denigrating Americans and highlighting US supremacy sets a “dangerous precedent for surveillance and sanitation,” according to Kelley.
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The judge also ordered the management to submit weekly status reports detailing their progress in restoring the affected items.
Among the items removed from Burgum’s Interior were an exhibit at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia detailing the identity of enslaved people by George Washington, the nation’s first president, and signs detailing the threat of climate change at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
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“Under the guise of improving America’s reputation, this government wants to share limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, exhibits, and interpretive displays in National Parks that do not conform to the popular narrative, thereby telling incomplete truths,” Kelley wrote.
Trump signed an executive order to work to “restore truth and sanity to American history” in the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks. Burgum later directed the removal of what he called “inappropriate party ideas” from museums, monuments, landmarks and other public displays under state control.
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Other changes criticized by leftists included the removal of a sign at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument in Arizona that included an image of a tourist holding a Pride flag, and the removal of films about labor history at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.
“What we were left with, like almost every Cabinet, was a mess from the Biden administration,” Burgum told Fox News’ “Saturday America” Kayleigh McEnany, vowing to “clean up the mess that was left of us.”
Shannon “SJ” Joslin, a fired park ranger, was part of the group that unveiled the pride flag in Yosemite last summer. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle)
“They were doing everything from climate extremism to DEI, ESG, you name it, and they were doing everything against what the American people voted for and what President Trump promised the American people we would do.”
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Fox News Digital contacted the Interior Department Sunday morning for additional comment.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
