WATCH: Jillian Michaels Destroys CNN Panel, Smacks Down ‘Slavery’ Cries

A CNN segment tying the history of the global slave trade to white people was badly debunked by Jillian Michaels in real-time this week.

The former fitness instructor turned conservative commentator let a panel know that the network was deeply misguided when it attempted to pin the majority of slave trading on white Europeans.

“Did you know that less than two percent of white Americans owned slaves?” she asked the group, immediately provoking pearl-clutching criticism from her fellow panelists.

Their discussion came in response to accusations that President Donald Trump is seeking to “rewrite history” by demanding public schools and private universities change their curriculum to avoid federal investigations, including discussions of slavery.

“Do you realize that slavery is thousands of years old?” Michaels continued, pointing out that white colonial Americans were the “first race” to try and end slavery during their lifetimes.

Host Abby Phillip sided against Michaels. “Jillian, I’m surprised you’re trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery.”

“I’m not,” she replied in exasperation.

“What I’m saying is you cannot… Every single thing is because ‘oh no, white people bad,’ and that’s just not the truth,” she claimed.

As conservative influencer Benny Johnson points out, slavery in Africa existed for 4,700 years before the arrival of European traders. Many of the earliest nonwhite societies practiced slavery, including the Egyptians and Mesopotamians, and South Korea is widely seen as being the most prolific country where slave trading propagated.

“He’s not whitewashing slavery,” Michaels said about Trump. “And you cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty much what every single exhibit does.”

“When you make every single exhibit about white imperialism when it isn’t relevant at all, that is a problem.”

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One of the president’s first orders after taking office, titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” aims to “instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand,” according to a White House fact sheet.

Critics have countered that Trump’s effort will “whitewash” slavery from American history books, but as Michaels hints, discussions of slavery in colonial America may become part of a larger discourse in public schools about the history of slavery around the world — much earlier in time than the original 13 colonies.

One of the colonies, Virginia, today remains the battleground over parents upset that public school teachers have opted for anti-racism lessons in the classroom. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin rode to office in part on a promise to give parents a greater say in what their children are taught, especially when it comes to sensitive subjects like slavery that may distort their own feelings of guilt and inadequacy.