Department of Defense bans Julianne Moore’s children’s book Freckleface Strawberry

Americans can sleep easy knowing that kids with freckles will continue feeling insecure about their faces.

By Matt Schimkowitz  |  February 16, 2025 | 5:23pm
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Department of Defense bans Julianne Moore’s children’s book Freckleface Strawberry
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The Trump administration‘s Department of Defense, currently run by former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has taken a stand against freckles. Earlier today, Academy Award winner Julianne Moore posted on Instagram that our very tough and muscley leaders have banned her children’s book, Freckleface Strawberry, from schools run by the Department of Defense. These schools are for the children of people within the army, who no longer have to worry about Moore’s insidious screeds of self-acceptance. As we all know, ensuring children feel uncomfortable or self-conscious about their appearance is part of making America great again.

More said it was a “great shock” that the book was banned from DOD schools, but then she described the book’s content, and the banning made all the sense in the world. “Freckleface Strawberry is a semi-autobiographical story about a seven year old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live with them when she realizes that she is different ‘just like everybody else,'” she wrote. “It is a book I wrote for my children and other kids to remind them that we all struggle but are united by our humanity and community.” Alas, President Trump and Secretary of State Hegseth apparently find the book another tentacle of the woke agenda, poisoning our youngsters with thoughts of bodily acceptance, and want to toughen up the preschool-age audience.

Moore, who attended a Frankfurt American High School, a DOD-run school, and is the child of a Vietnam veteran who spent a career in the U.S. Army, was “stunned” that the book was banned. She wasn’t simply shocked because the First Amendment should protect the book’s obviously inoffensive content but because it’s a nice book for children with freckles to read. On the other hand, the silent army of confident children is among the greatest threats to the world’s richest and most powerful men and needs to be stomped out.

Pen America, a New York non-profit that advocates for free expression, reported the banning on Instagram. The news comes as the administration attempts to erase other aspects of human life, such as using the word “gender,” observing Black History Month, and, yes, discussing human sexuality. Per Pen, other books banned include Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt, about trans actor Nicole Maines’ transition, and No Truth Without Ruth by Kathleen Krull and Nancy Zhang, a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

“Just weeks after the Trump Administration claimed book bans were a ‘hoax’, the same administration is purging books from schools run by the Department of Defense, serving 67,000 children around the world,” Pen’s Instagram post reads. “The removal of these titles is yet another indicator of the new Administration’s flippant and autocratic approach to K-12 education.”

At least military parents won’t have to worry about inflammatory works like Freckleface Strawberry brainwashing their children into having self-esteem. America is safe once again.

 
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