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Exclusive: The Trump administration turns its attention to the Smithsonian Foundation, accused Museum funded by taxpayers The complex of the use of federal dollars to enhance what it calls “one -sided political novels” that fail to honor the greatness of the American story.
White House official Lindsey Halligan criticized the content shown at the National Museum of American History for Entertainment in an exclusive email to Fox News Digital.
The exhibition, which explores the American pop culture, attracted internal and external criticism of what some see as a political interpretation of cultural features.
Halligan said: “American taxpayers should not be one of the institutions that undermine our country or reinforce unilateral political accounts.” “The Smithsonian Foundation must present history in an accurate, balanced and consistent in the values that make the United States exceptional.”
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C-3PO and R2-D2 fashion is shown at the National Museum of American History in Smithsonian with a stars-war committee to inspire America during uncertainty after Vietnam and the Nixon era scandal. (Fox News Digital)
The White House statement comes in the wake of many amazing examples of the exhibition.
One banners read, appearing alongside a circus poster in 1923: “Under the big summit, the circus has expressed the colonial motivation to demand control of the world.” Another, which describes early American entertainment, declares: “It was one of the first distinctive entertainment features in the United States is unusual violence.”
The exhibition rewrites the iconic American characters through embarrassment, Politically charged lens. In The Lone Ranger, the presentation states the following: “The relationship of the white title with Tonto was similar to how the US government imagined itself the only goalkeeper in the world.”
Mickey Mouse, a beloved American cultural icon, also spared. “Mickey challenged the power, but not everyone was in the joke,” says Steamboat Willie’s 1928 cars.
He continues: “Mickey Mouse appeared for the first time in the role of” steam boats “in 1928, amid increasing concern by many that the life of modern living and the city’s life was the erosion of family and societal relationships, and clarifying the long moral symbols … but the new character of the faces of the new face.”
In reference to the Indiana Jones film series, another committee read: “His personality embodies a confident righteousness, in many ways, it captured the eighties of the eighties” over another sub -discourse indicating the famous speech of President Ronald Reagan, do you ask, “Are you better?”
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The banner of the Smithsonian exhibition from the National Museum of American History describes circus shows in the twenties of the twentieth century as “the colonial motive to demand sovereignty in the world.” (Fox News Digital)
One of the committee calls Magnum, PI, a challenge to “the popular perceptions of the old warriors in Vietnam as a damaged fog.” A section on John Stewart’s daily presentation notes “the transition to viewers who reduced politicians and the reporting process.”
Another committee promotes the late pop star Selena Quintanilla Perez and framing its cultural influence through the identity policy.
“Selena has made us talk about identity,” with a quote from the late singer reading, “I feel very proud to be a Mexican.”
The text goes on to say that its work “has shed light on the long -term political influence and increased for American and Latin societies within the United States.”
Examples [Fox News Digital] Haligan said: “Framing American culture, imperialism or racism does not reflect the greatness of our nation or millions of Americans who contributed to its progress.”
A show at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is explored the changing sexual standards, which includes May West, Judy Garland, and the Olympic Girlstrude Idri. The background includes an English and Spanish quote: “When I am bad, I am better.” (Fox News Digital)
Haligan confirmed that reviewing content from top to bottom is already ongoing, with inputs of Smithsonian leaders and the Referees Council. She said: “We are working with the leadership in Smithsonian to review and review all content in museums, and we are committed to ensuring that this content honors the principles of establishing our country, tells the stories of American heroes, and we do not encourage the whispers or activists active as history.”
She added, “We will make updates on this scrutiny with our progress.”
The Smithsonian Institute responded to the Fox News Digital statement with the following written statement: “The museum is committed to scholarships, strict and strict research, and an unbiased presentation of facts and history. In this way, as before, we evaluate the content in Smithsonian museums and we will make any necessary changes to ensure that our contents meet with that.”
The Foundation did not answer specific questions regarding those who composed the nation’s entertainment exhibition, whether it was academic advisers or external active organizations, or who made a decision to present all the text of the exhibition in the English and Spanish language.
The controversy comes in a wider batch President Donald Trump To reshape cultural institutions, he said he deviated to the left.
The National Museum of the American History of the Smithsonian Foundation appears from Washington’s monument on June 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Emima)
In March, Trump issued an executive order directing the Referees Council to eliminate “an inappropriate or divided ideology or anti -American” from Smithsonian museums. He accused the Foundation of adopting what he called a “review movement” aimed at “undermining the wonderful achievements of the United States by throwing its principles and historical monuments in a negative light.”
The Referees Council includes Vice President, President of the United States, Six members of Congress, and nine citizens of the rulers.
Vice President JD Vance and Member of Congress Carlos JiminiesBoth the two modern appointed, have called for an urgent review of the Smithsonian content. Giménez, in a previous interview with The Wall Street Journal, confirmed tensions at the Board of Directors meeting in June about the speedy move forward, despite reaching a compromise in the end.
Smithsonian receives nearly two -thirds of its annual budget worth one billion dollars in federal credits.
The Entertainment Nation exhibition was opened in December 2022 and was described as a permanent exhibition “to celebrate the power of popular culture in forming and reflecting history.” It is located in a major place on the western wing of the museum and features phrases and media outlets, television, sports and music.
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While the museum’s declared goal is to explore how entertainment intersects with the American identity, the Trump administration argues that it uses culture instead to smuggle in ideology often, unlike the values of most Americans.
“The Americans deserve Smithsonian inspiring national pride, telling the truth and reflecting the greatness of this country,” said Haligan. “It is not a person who works as a factor for social change and cultural sabotage.”
