Kevin Roberts says the Smithsonian's women's history museum has a planned exhibit celebrating male athletes in women's sports. We rate that mostly false — truth score 0.2, confidence 0.75.

The sentence is real and it's in a federal executive order. What isn't real is the exhibit, the museum building, or any source the order ever cited.

On the 26 August 2026 episode of The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O'Connor — "How We Take Back the Smithsonian From the Communists" — Roberts describes "a planned exhibit that will celebrate the achievement of male competitors in women's sports." O'Connor upgrades it: the women being honored "are actually men."

The steelman is strong. Executive Order 14253, signed 27 March 2025, contains that assertion word for word. Interim director Lisa Sasaki did tell the New York Times in 2023 that the museum ...