The US president says America’s heritage and history is under assault from the left and has decried anti-racism teachings and 'cancel culture'.
Mr Trump, whose speech marked Constitution Day, was speaking after a summer of sometimes violent anti-police protests, triggered by high-profile shootings and killings by officers of black suspects during arrests.
The unrest, which activists say reflected pent-up anger at the country's failure to reckon with racism, also saw crowds tearing down historic statues - some celebrating figures from the slave-owning South in the Civil War and some representing the country's early founders.
"We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny. We will reclaim our history, and our country, for citizens of every race, colour, religion and creed," Mr Trump said."The left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools." He called revisionist history projects and racial sensitivity training"toxic propaganda - an ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together, will destroy our country."
Mr Trump noted he had recently banned such training"in the strongest manner possible" from federal offices.
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