President Trump accused the Smithsonian Foundation of publishing “the ideology of sweat -based division” and issued an executive order on Thursday calling for the end of federal funding for exhibitions and programs based on racist topics “dividing the Americans”.
The matter, titled “Restore truth and reason to American history”, is directed by Vice President JD Vance to remove “inappropriate ideology” from the Smithsonian Museum 19 and the National Zoo in Washington, DC,
Trump’s order also seeks to restore the Ministry of Domestic Public statues that have been removed or changed “to perpetuate a false rebuilding of American history, reducing the value of some historical events or numbers, or including any other inappropriate party ideology.”
Interior Minister Doug Burgum has been directed to take a look at all “monuments, monuments, statues and signs” that have been removed or changed since January 1, 2020. The largest part of The general effects concerned The Confederate leaders honored and considered this Offering celebrations for the racist nationAnd they were dropped after the ethnic justice protests after the death of George Floyd by Minnesota police officer.
The beginning of Trump’s “wide -ranging effort” to rewrite American history claims to “replace objective facts with a deformed list of ideology instead of the truth.”
Several exhibitions are listed in order as evidence of the narration that it seeks to eliminate, including the current presentation at the Smithsonian Museum of American Arts entitled “The Figure of Power: American Stories and Sculpture”, which, ” According to the museum website“For the first time, he examines the methods in which sculpture was formed and the opposite of positions and understandings about race in the United States.”
It is unclear whether the Trump administration intends to monitor, for example, the Smithsonian National Museum of African History and Americans related to the history of slavery in America or the achievements of Mary McLod Bethon, who established a school for black girls during an era when they are not allowed to attend the same campus as white children.
On Thursday, the executive was martyred at a coming exhibition at the American Smithsonian Museum of Women’s History, which he said would celebrate the “exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports” – a clear attempt to frame the inclusion of people who do not suffer from two years or transgender.
The Smithsonian Institute, the American Art Museum and the American Women’s History Museum have not yet responded to the Times requests for comment.
The matter said that Vans will work with Russell Fion, director of Trump’s office at the administration and budget office, to ensure that the future credits that were made through Congress “prevent spending on exhibitions or programs that break the joint American values or divide the Americans on the basis of race or promote programs or ideologies that do not agree with the law and federal policy.”
This is not the first time that Trump’s executive has affected Smithsonian. In January, one of Trump’s first executive orders banned any mention of diversity, fairness and integration, prompting Smithsonian to close diversity offices.
In mid -February, Trump designed the acquisition of the John F. Kennedy for theater arts Members of the Board of Directors refused Former President Biden appointed him and obtained the name of the Chairman of the Board.
