In its newer videos, PragerU Kids suggests that post-apartheid efforts in South Africa are unfair and harmful, that police violence can be avoided in traffic stops if the driver has a “good attitude,” that in post-slavery America everyone knows prejudice is “a terrible thing,” and that DEI is “hurting the people it claims to help.”

"South Africa: Lwazi’s Hard Lesson," a video from the “Around the World” series, centers on a young Black boy, Lwazi, who is torn between two different explanations for South Africa’s enduring inequality. On one side are Lwazi's parents, who believe that “different rules for blacks and whites,” or affirmative action, are at the root of the nation’s problems. On the other is Lwazi’s older brother, who believes “racism remains the reason so many blacks have remained in poverty” and “blamed whites, specifically farmers and landowners, for all the country’s problems.”  

But when Lwazi makes a new white friend, he learns the “truth,” including that “not all white people were rich,” and that some had “faced hardship and large numbers were leaving the country because of safety fears.”

The video ends with a group of Black South Africans protecting a white neighborhood from a mob of young men “looking for trouble” that includes Lwazi's brother, who attacks Lwazi’s white friend and then disappears. The video concludes that “the efforts tried” to improve the country, “like rewarding people for their skin color and not ability, have failed and are leading to South Africa’s destruction.”

Despite the video’s claims that white South Africans are fleeing the country for their safety, according to police data from South Africa, “most victims of rural crime are Black.” White South Africans currently make up 7% of the population and own approximately 70% of the land in the country. Though the Trump administration has proliferated claims of a genocide against white South Africans, a court there ruled this year that such claims are “not real” and “clearly imagined.”

A “How To” video posted in August 2023 titled "How To Handle Getting Pulled Over" claims, “A lot of people think that if they get pulled over they're going to be needlessly handcuffed or bullied by a police officer.” The video then depicts a police officer holding a driver down on the hood of a car and questioning him aggressively and notes that such a situation “is not going to happen. The officer is just trying to do his job without getting killed.”

The video also puts the onus on the driver to make interactions with police officers safe and has a section titled “Control Your Attitude” where the narrator claims, “If you want your interaction with the officer to go smoothly, you need to have a good attitude.”

The organization Mapping Police Violence says 9% of police killings in 2025 began with traffic stops. In recent years, police officers' handling of traffic stops has come under scrutiny for use of excessive force, with Black Americans, in particular, dying “in disproportionate numbers from police violence.”

A video from the “Leo & Layla” series with Benjamin Banneker, a famous Black mathematician and naturalist, depicts the children telling Banneker that “by our time, slavery is abolished and is fully understood as evil, and prejudice is known as a terrible thing,” and Banneker responding, “People in my time are being judged by the color of our skin. Hearing from you that America will grow out of this terrible prejudice is comforting.” In reality, a 2025 survey found that “most Americans say there is at least some discrimination against Black, Hispanic and Asian people.”

PragerU Kids goes after DEI programs in an “Around the World” video set in Chicago. The narrator opens the video by claiming that since diversity, equity, and inclusion programs were implemented, “academic achievement has sunk, classrooms have turned more violent, and schools in tough areas are nowhere near equal to those in nice neighborhoods.” The voiceover asks, “Is it possible that DEI is hurting the people it claims to help?”

This video also accuses colleges of teaching future educators that “students' grades and behavior are determined by things like skin color or what neighborhood they live in,” that tests aren't “sensitive to all students,” and that requiring correct answers is “actually racist.”

Some of the PragerU Kids videos tell stories of other children around the world learning to reject multicultural societies or embrace strong borders and measures like Brexit. 

One “Around the World” video tells the story of a Colombian teen trying to assist migrants crossing the Darién Gap, ending with the message that “unsecured borders bring crime, violence, and suffering” and “strong borders are more humane.” The story echoes the anti-immigration agenda of the Trump administration.

Another “Around the World” video opens with a narrator complaining about the “multicultural suburbs” of France losing their “love of country” and claiming France's “Western ideals are in jeopardy.” The narrator asks, “Can this proud nation survive the division it's facing?” 

The video also features a Black French boy, Andre, who gets into a quarrel with his immigrant friends because he thinks they are not patriotic enough. The narrator states, “His friends and their families accuse many French traditions of being racist and think French culture is often hostile towards customs from their homelands.” 

The main conflict of the video involves a teacher who doesn’t condemn a ban on some “Muslim head and facial coverings.” Andre supports his teacher's views, but after he is pressured by his friends to steal from his teacher, the teacher makes Andre visit a museum where he learns about famous people who moved to France “to accept and benefit from its cultures and traditions.” Then Andre “had to admit that newcomers assimilating to French society was the right thing to do.” 

The themes of nationalism and rejection of multicultural societies continue in "London: Alistair Understands Brexit." In this video the narrator argues that immigrants used to assimilate to British culture, but “some of today's immigrants come with different expectations.” Main character Alistair wonders “how can the U.K. maintain its culture and traditions with unlimited new arrivals who don't want to adapt.” The video seems to suggest that citizens of the United Kingdom should be “British through and through,” like Alistair's friend whose parents immigrated from India but assimilated to British culture.

The video also pushes pro-Brexit talking points about taxes and business, explaining that being part of the European Union “means more paperwork and taxes” for Alistair's parents’ business, costs the U.K. a lot, and involves the U.K. in an “external” governing body that “may have other priorities or agendas unrelated to the United Kingdom’s well-being.” It argues that Brexit would give the U.K. “national sovereignty” and “full control over immigration, security, and a visa system.” 

“Leaving the EU is a vote of confidence in the U.K.’s ability to govern and protect itself,” the video continues, with Alistair speaking up in favor of Brexit in his class and getting bullied on his school cricket team. He ultimately leaves that team and joins a “scrappy new club team” that doesn’t have EU-associated fees and the family toasts a “new beginning” for his family, his team, and the country. 

One “Leo & Layla” adventure takes the siblings to Mississippi in 1943 to meet Sadao Munemori, a Japanese American World War II soldier, who teaches them how to “be a victor, not a victim,” despite his family’s imprisonment in an internment camp. 

Munemori tells Leo and Layla, “My heart does hurt that many Japanese Americans have lost everything, including their freedoms and dignity,” but “I was equally outraged at the attack on my country” when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. 

The video suggests Munemori enlisted in the U.S. military as an act of patriotism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but in reality he enlisted prior to the attack. Munemori sacrificed his life for his fellow soldiers in April 1945 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

Multiple videos in the channel downplay both the role the United States and Europe played in slavery and the consequences of colonization. 

In a video from the “Leo & Layla” series, Layla is struggling to write an essay for school about slavery. Layla calls it a “heavy topic” and says, “It's hard to even think there was a time when people in our country owned slaves.”

Leo replies, “Yeah, I know, but weren't there also some really good people from the West who did a lot to end slavery?”

The pair then head back in time to speak with William Wilberforce about his work to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade. 

This video downplays Europe's central role in the slave trade, saying, “People who [had] been forced into slavery by tribes in Africa [were] then sold to merchants from Great Britain and other countries.” 

According to the Equal Justice Initiative, “Slavery had existed in Africa prior to this point, but this new commodification of human beings by European powers was entirely unique and it drastically changed the African concept of enslavement.”

Wilberforce also states that slavery has “been a part of every society throughout history.”

Although the video attempts to downplay Britain's role, in reality, in Wilberforce's 1798 speech on the abolition of the slave trade, he squarely puts the blame on himself and “the whole Parliament of Great Britain” for the slave trade. He asserts: “We are all guilty. We ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others.” 

Layla's takeaway from the conversation with PragerU's version of Wilberforce is that “we all know that slavery was a horrible practice and part of Western history, but that doesn't change the fact that Great Britain and the United States were some of the first nations to end this horrible institution.” In fact, many countries outlawed slavery before the United States, including Mexico, Britain, France, and Denmark. 

The minimization of Europe and America's role in slavery has featured in previous “Leo & Layla” videos with Christopher Columbus and Booker T. Washington as well.

PragerU Kids co-creator Jill Simonian hosts “Craftory,” described as a series dedicated to “American history made fun for young kids with easy, family-friendly, DIY crafts.” In one such video, titled "George Washington Carver Peanut Puppet," Simonian tells the story of Black agricultural scientist George Washington Carver, giving only a passing mention to the role of slavery in his life. 

“His childhood was not easy,” she says. “He was forced to work as a slave, but he loved learning, set goals, and grew up to be a leader who changed the farming industry.” She calls slavery just one of “many challenges” Carver faced before becoming a student. 

In a video from the “Otto's Tales” series titled "Let's Visit a California Mission," Simonian claims the missions were built “with the goal of spreading Christianity to the Native Americans here” and that the missions “taught the natives about God, farming, building, and many other important skills for everyday life.” In reality, the California missions were known for enslaving and brutalizing Native Americans. 

One “Craftory” video titled "Native American Powwow Drum" also glosses over the violence European settlers committed against Native Americans. Simonian tells the story of Thanksgiving and the video ends: “They didn't always get along. It took time and sometimes a lot of fighting. Everyone had to learn to trade skill and customs to survive and create the most free country on Earth, our United States of America.”

Native Americans were massacred, forcibly removed, and enslaved by European settlers. 

A new series released at the end of 2025, “Trailblazers of America,” consists of videos about historical American pioneers and glorifies the colonization of America, demonizes indigenous tribes, and conveniently omits violence perpetrated by the settlers in question. In a video about Johnny Appleseed, the narrator describes indigenous land as “hundreds of thousands of miles of wilderness that could be turned into productive farmland” by settlers, using this as justification for the Northwest Indian War. In videos about California settlers John Sutter and John C. Frémont, PragerU simply ignores that Sutter used enslaved indigenous people to build and maintain his fort town and that Frémont led a massacre against the Wintu tribe on the banks of the Sacramento River. Six of the seven videos in the series have over 1 million views on PragerU Kids’ YouTube channel. 

The channel also dedicates videos to promoting the state of Israel and its founding while completely omitting any mention of Palestine or Palestinians.

Two “Leo & Layla” videos feature prominent figures in Israel’s history, Theodor Herzl and Menachem Begin, who share with the siblings their vision for a Jewish ethnoreligious state of Israel.

When Leo and Layla meet Herzl in Switzerland prior to the first Zionist Congress, he tells the pair he has “invited Jewish delegates here” for the congress to create “a country for ourselves in our ancient homeland,” later adding, “This land [Israel] was promised to us by God, and our holy city Jerusalem was selected by him.”

When Leo and Layla visit Begin during the signing of the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, Begin also calls Israel “a land promised to us by God,” tells the children that “even when I was a young lad in Poland I dreamed of helping my people return to the promised land and establish a modern state in Israel's ancient home,” and says that “we were very fortunate and determined, and now the country of Israel is thriving.”

Begin bemoans that “most of our neighbors don't like us very much” and when asked why, he rewrites history, claiming when the modern state of Israel was created, “many Arabs living in the area didn't like that” and “many of them fled because they were worried about war. We were willing to let them stay and become citizens of Israel, but they left for other countries … and those countries have started wars against us.”

Multiple videos on the PragerU Kids channel are dedicated to portraying opposition to communism and socialism as the animating force in politics, with one figure likening communism to a teacher “forcing” students to be equal. 

When Leo and Layla travel back in time to 1983 and talk to Pope John Paul II, he tells them that Poland is currently “fighting the ultimate injustice” — “the major evil that is communism.”

Layla claims that she has heard “a lot about communism and socialism on the news back home” and “a lot of younger people really want the United States to try it.”

The pope is horrified, warning the children that communism “is a political system that does not recognize God” and “destroys countries” as “societies collapse morally, intellectually, and economically.”

“To a communist, it is fair when nobody is free to rise above what the government allows,” the PragerU pope declares.

“That makes me think about what’s happening at my school,” replies Leo, who complains about his teacher changing the grading scale to benefit more students and compares it to communism. 

“My teacher is sort of forcing all of us to be equal and thinks that lowering the standards will help struggling students do better, and I think that’s totally unfair,” he says.

The pope calls it “a great comparison” and agrees with Layla that “some young Americans don’t realize how good we actually have it.”

A pair of “Around the World” videos published in 2025, "Venezuela: Vivi's Life under Socialism" and "Cuba: Tito’s Trouble with Communism," continue the theme. 

“Socialism is a system where citizens do not own anything individually,” claims the narrator in the Venezuela video. “Eventually, all socialist countries face serious scarcity of basic needs, such as medicine and food. … Every country that has tried socialism ends up with these problems.”

In the video on Cuba, a character states, “More people than ever before are waking up to the evils of communism, and that's a really good thing.”

In a video making the case for capitalism, titled "Peru: Carlos Climbs the Ladder," the narrator claims that “Peru used to be very poor, with socialist governments tightly controlling the mines through a planned economy,” and redistributing wealth through taxes “discouraged work and hindered economic growth.” The video goes on to claim privatization of the copper mines led to “incredible results.”

The Peru video also criticizes protests against mining, claiming the companies made a deal for the land with indigenous Peruvians who later “changed their minds.” It also villainizes protesters, claiming that “stopping production would affect not only the families of all the miners, but Peru's entire economy as well.”

Protests at Peru's Las Bambas copper mine have been frequent since 2015 and are often focused on environmental impacts of the mine or lack of compensation for local communities.

Other PragerU Kids channel videos downplay climate change and offer a slanted take on science. 

A video titled "Netherlands: Florian Feeds the World" is about the government of the Netherlands capping farmers' greenhouse gas emissions — specifically nitrogen — and the farmers' revolt that followed. 

The video claims that “farmers know that the right amount of nitrogen is essential for growing strong, healthy crops,” noting that Dutch crops “feed people across Europe and as far away as China,” and that limiting the use of nitrogen could result in starvation. 

Donald Trump made the same claim in a 2022 speech when speaking about the Dutch nitrogen crisis and denying climate change, saying efforts to protect the environment will lead to “famine and starvation.” In reality, the climate crisis itself is expected to be a direct cause of food shortages and famines. 

Jill Simonian reads a story for the “Otto’s Tales” series titled "Let's Visit an Alaskan Glacier" in which animals from Alaska downplay climate change and its effects on the planet. 

One orca tells the other characters, “The ice is always changing and moving. It would take hundreds of years for these glaciers to completely melt.” 

A polar bear voices similar sentiments, claiming, “Sometimes melting can cause problems for people, like when there's flooding, but nature changes all the time for many reasons.” 

The video ends with the message that “we can all do certain things to help nature like not litter and not waste water, right? But it's almost impossible to control nature.” 

It is widely agreed that actions by humans have altered the Earth's climate, increasing the temperature of the planet's surface by more than 1 degree celsius. 

In two “Leo & Layla” videos, the pair travel back in time to visit scientists Nicolaus Copernicus and Michael Faraday. In both videos, the scientists discuss the hostility they faced when countering “established scientific theories” and disagreeing with things “everyone believes.”

Copernicus tells the children, “It's a good reminder that ideas aren't correct simply because everyone believes them. Do your own research.” 

Faraday similarly says that he is facing “a lot of hostility from other scientists of my time” as he challenges “well-known and established scientific theories.” He also says: “It is my duty as a scientist to share whatever I discover about the natural world. But more importantly, it is my duty as a Christian to reveal that the natural world was created by God.” 

Layla also claims of modern science, “There's been so much stuff on the news about some scientists who want a certain result and then do an experiment that will only give them the result they want.” 

Both of these videos share common themes with the Trump administration's rejection of climate and health science. For instance, in an April 2025 interview, Trump administration Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told parents to “do your own research” while repeating false claims about vaccines and drug regulations. 

Trump has announced plans to “issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools.” In Texas, some schools are adopting a state-developed curriculum that critics say infuses Christianity into lessons. 

Similarly, PragerU is sharing Judeo-Christian Bible stories through its PragerU Kids curriculum. 

In a video from the “Craftory” series, while teaching viewers how to make a book cover, Simonian discusses the beginnings of education in the U.S., arguing that the Founding Fathers wanted citizens to be “educated with morals and religion” so they would “know the difference between right and wrong,” adding, “And this is still very important.”

Simonian says Puritans came to America for religious freedom, and the “Bible was a main part of how they learned to read and think.” She says the Bible was used as a “textbook” in early American schools, and students “often learned their ABCs with Bible names.”

Simonian notes that “many schools even started the day with a prayer and a Bible reading.”

Many of the videos in the PragerU Kids channel are retellings of Bible stories, such as a craft video titled “12 Tribes of Israel Tree,” which explains how to make a pipe cleaner tree and shares the story of the  12 tribes of Israel from the Book of Genesis. There are also videos titled "Otto’s Tales: The Wise & Foolish Servants" and "Joshua & the Walls of Jericho," which feature storybook readings based on biblical tales. And in the “Leo & Layla” series, the siblings travel back in time to meet both Abraham and Daniel, who retell their Bible stories. (The Abraham video includes awkward explanations about Abraham fathering a child with his servant and attempting to sacrifice his son.)