Trump's Mobile Museum Is Lying About Muhammad Ali

The Trump administration’s official 250th-anniversary “Freedom Trucks,” mobile museums touring schools across the country, include a display claiming Muhammad Ali “disavowed” Islam. He did not. Ali converted in 1964, transitioned from the Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam in 1975, made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1989, defended Islam publicly after 9/11, and had a Muslim funeral in 2016. CAIR is demanding a correction, calling Ali “a devout Muslim” and saying the display “distorts both his personal faith journey and the historical record.”The exhibits were produced with Hillsdale College and PragerU, and reporting shows the displays skew American history toward Christian nationalism, including echoes of antisemitic myths about the Revolutionary War. The trucks have already visited more than 300 schools and aim to reach 20 million people, with corporate sponsors including ExxonMobil, Palantir, and Lockheed Martin.The irony is generational: the U.S. government stripped Ali’s heavyweight title and cost him three prime years because his faith forbade him from fighting in Vietnam. One of his final public statements, in December 2015, was a rebuke of Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. A month into Trump’s first term, border agents detained Ali’s son, a U.S. citizen, and asked him, “Are you a Muslim?”This story was broken by independent journalist Jonathan Larsen , the only outlet reporting it. Subscribe to his work. The Fucking News Jonathan Larsen’s Substack Sources: Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe