Biden Abolishes 1776 Commission: America Has Never Fully Lived Up To Its Principles President Biden abolished former President Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission on “patriotic education” Tuesday, calling it “offensive” and “counterfactual.” Biden also reversed Trump’s ban on ‘critical race theory,’ an ideology that trained federal workers on “white privilege.” Trump established the 1776 Commission to investigate and present a “definitive chronicle of the American founding, a powerful description of the effect the principles of the Declaration of Independence have had on this Nation’s history, and a dispositive rebuttal of reckless “re-education” attempts that seek to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one.”