https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/arts/design/smithsonian-trump.htmlThe White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday, one week after announcing that eight of the institution’s museums must submit their current wall text and future exhibition plans for a comprehensive review.The list borrows heavily from a recent article in The Federalist that objected to portrayals at several museums. It argued that the Museum of American History promoted homosexuality by hanging a pride flag; overemphasized Benjamin Franklin’s relationship to slavery in its programming; and promoted open borders by depicting migrants watching fireworks “through an opening in the U.S.-Mexico border wall.”Other grievances were previously enumerated in an executive order that President Trump authorized in March, which criticized the National Museum of African American History and Culture for a 2020 worksheet that describes aspects of “whiteness” as “hard work,” “individualism" and “the nuclear family.” The worksheet was part of an online educational portal called Talking About Race; once it drew criticism, Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian, had it removed.The White House list also featured complaints that were not part of the Federalist article or the president’s executive order. Those include a stop-motion animation at the National Portrait Gallery about Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a government leader during the coronavirus pandemic, and a series at the African American museum that it says “featured content from hardcore woke activist Ibram X. Kendi.”The Smithsonian Institution and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“This is an unprecedented pressure campaign and the granularity here is shocking,” said Samuel J. Redman, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who has written extensively on the Smithsonian’s history. “This list, even from a cursory look, is cherry-picking various examples from an enormous and diverse museum.”The unsigned list from the White House was the latest in the president’s effort to overhaul the Smithsonian, which oversees 21 museums, libraries, research centers and the National Zoo. Last week, the Trump administration sent Mr. Bunch a letter saying that eight of its museums had a 120-day deadline to replace whatever the administration considers “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”Mr. Trump also said this week that the Smithsonian was “out of control” and focused too much on “how bad slavery was.”The Smithsonian, which has long operated as an independent institution outside the purview of the executive branch, gets 62 percent of its more than $1 billion annual budget from congressional appropriation, federal grants and government contracts.This year, Mr. Trump said that Vice President JD Vance, who is a member of the Smithsonian’s board, would work with Congress to prohibit expenditures on exhibitions or programs that “degrade shared American values, divide Americans by race or promote ideologies inconsistent with federal law.” In recent months, Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president, has taken credit for leading efforts to overhaul the Smithsonian.
Some of the White House’s efforts to change the capital’s cultural scene have been successful. Mr. Trump purged the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts of Biden appointees and installed himself as its chairman. The director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, resigned in June after the president said he had fired her, calling her “a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI.”The list that the White House published on Thursday also included material that has been displayed in the National Museum of African Art and the American Art Museum. It is titled “President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian.”
Good. History is written by the victors. Eliminate the inconvenient truths.
>>1428571>History is written by the victors. Eliminate the inconvenient truthsThat written after WWII which is considered the definitive work of it's kind. Also that written by the victors over those that tried to eliminate Jews, thus a lie perpetuated by those perma-seething that said victors denied them of their right to a Jew-free world. Thus the world today with Israel & Jews supported by Trump, in turn supported by those reduced to trying to 'own the libs'. One of those victors of WWII who wrote those definitive histories of the 20th Century? Winston Churchill.Guess who has a bust of one of those victors & author of those histories in the Oval Office of the White House today, because he admires that victor over the ultimate antisemites. Like I say, he admires that Parliamentarian. Another Parliamentarian: William Wilberforce, a slavery abolitionist whose home was converted into a museum detailing the tyranny of the slave trade. A previous US president would approve. He of course memorialized in Washington DC. One reason being he was a slavery abolitionist.
>>1428571Victors of what?
>>1428571you're a loser, that's why you're a shill instead of a doctor or a lawyer
>>1428586Dummy doesn't realize that the union won the civil war.
>>1428569>In recent months, Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president, has taken credit for leading efforts to overhaul the Smithsonian.Another thinktank crony.
>>1428571This is an ironic statement seeing how it was radical liberal progressives who have been promoting segregation in western countries and at the same time destroying statues and monuments which commemorate slavery. If you don't want to be reminded of the past, why keep talking about it?
>>1429409Who radicalized you?
>>1429412Just stating facts. If you have problems with those. Then you are for sure radicalised.
>>1429450You alternative facts aren't real.
