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The order calls for a purge of “divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” including works or exhibitions that reinforce the notion that “race is not a biological reality but a social construct.”

The beginning of Trump’s order claims “a concerted and widespread effort” to rewrite American history, “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

Six years later, Ritter’s muse finally latched onto that wisp of a notion and it is now a full-blown “hall of distorted mirrors” thriller called “Retreat.”

The painting, which was presented to the building in 2019, was "purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before", he wrote on Truth Social on Monday morning.

Control over the country’s schools and education system will also mean denying young people and the larger public the means to understand and contextualize the present by distorting the past.