“Remove improper ideology”: Trump puts Vance in charge of purging the Smithsonian Institution

president Donald Trump Direct Smithsonian Institute On Thursday, the Ministry of Interior is to purify the exhibitions, and perhaps restoring the Confederation monuments and removing the attached parts to restore “truth and rationality to American history”, is part of what he described as a war on “the ideology that causes corrosion.”

and Executive order On Thursday, the Smithsonian Museum system is guided immediately to any projects or exhibitions “the deterioration of joint American values, divided Americans on the basis of race, strengthening programs or ideologies that do not conflict with federal law and policy.”

The matter guides the vice president JD Vance To “removing unsound ideology” from Smithsonian museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo, upon request. This is the largest executive access to almost independent confidence in its history, which is more than 175 years.

One of the specific issues raised by the matter is the depiction of race, the legacy of the laws of slavery, Jim Crowe, and other historical novels in Smithsonian groups.

It calls for purification of “division -defining novels that distort our common history”, including works or exhibitions that enhance the idea that “race is not a biological but social structure.” At the heart of the attack groups in The National Museum of American African History and Culture, One of the five The most popular The capital museums in 2024, and the American Women’s History Museum.

Another item of the decree appears to take measures to restore antiquities to the Confederate leaders on federal lands under the auspices of the rejection of “ideology of anti -America”.

The head of the Ministry of Interior is directed to restore the effects that were “removed or incorrectly changed in the past five years to perpetuate a wrong review of history,” according to the White House. Fact paper.