#smithsonian
Don’t get it twisted.
Trump doesn’t want ideology out of the #Smithsonian. He wants democratic pluralism out and authoritarian monoculture in.
Museums are not neutral and this isn’t about objectivity.
It’s about CORE VALUES and FREE INQUIRY.
Resist much, obey little.
Better get this episode about the Mercury 13 and the rest of the #Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast before Trump and the DOGE boys do.
The US government is to withhold funding for #Smithsonian exhibits that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.» Let us spell this out for you: Trump aims at stopping publicly funded art, research and education from presenting the role of #racism in American history 1/3
It empowers #JDVance to review all properties, programs & presentations to prohibit programs that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.”
#Trump also ordered Interior Secy #DougBurgum to determine if any monuments since Jan 2020 “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” or “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures.”
#Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder cites the Natl Museum of #AfricanAmericanHistory & #Culture by name & argues that the #Smithsonian as a whole is engaging in a “concerted & widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history.”
Instead of celebrating an “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, & human happiness,”the order states that a “corrosive…divisive, race-centered ideology”has “reconstructed”the nation “as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”
I am baffled by the fact that some Americans do not grasp what the attack on the #Smithsonian museums means. To withhold funding for exhibits that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race,” means that they are to stop covering racism in the US and stop defending diversity. This is #fascism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/03/28/trump-smithsonian-institution-order/
“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of #slavery even existed, or that #JimCrow laws & #segregation & #RacialViolence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.
#CivilRights advocates, #historians & #Black political leaders sharply rebuked #Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his #ExecutiveOrder targeting the #Smithsonian Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how #race, #racism & #BlackAmericans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.
#Trump’s order accusing the #Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting #AmericanHistory notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”
But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined #slavery into the #US #Constitution & declared enslaved persons as ⅗ of a person for the purpose of the Census.
#whitewashing #censorship #BlackAmerican #WhiteSupremacy #racism #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa
#Trump annoyed the #Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas
« New executive order slams the museum for recognizing "race is not a biological reality." »
Urgent plea to #Smithsonian & all #Museum curators and employees:
Please ARCHIVE and SAVE what you can! This is our Nazi "Degenerate Art" moment...
History will be lost and might not be able to be saved if we allow them to destroy it.
The latest target for Trump's crackdowns is the Smithsonian Institution and its museums and education and research centers. A new executive order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "improper, divisive or anti-American" ideology from programs at the Institution, which receives federal funding. Here's more from MSNBC's MaddowBlog.
I was wondering when this was going to happen. #dmv #smithsonian #republicans #history #repression
#Trump’s order calls the #Smithsonian’s evolving approach a “revisionist” history “with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth” that is “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”
Does he just describe himself but sub the names of the institutions he attacks wherever his name was?
#law #AmericanHistory #censorship #WhiteWashing #CultureWars #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order
The #Smithsonian, the official keeper of the American story, has operated independently as a public-private partnership created by an act of #Congress in 1846. #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder is an unprecedented act to edit an institution that — reflective of the nation itself — has expanded to include a wider, richer & more diverse telling of the nation’s #history.
#Trump issued an #ExecutiveOrder Thurs evening promising to eliminate “corrosive” & “divisive narratives” from the #Smithsonian’s museums & restore “monuments, memorials, statues, markers” removed over the past 5 yrs.
The “Restoring Truth & Sanity to #AmericanHistory” order directs #JDVance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its #museums, #education & #research centers, & the National Zoo to remove “anti-American ideology.”
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology' - He signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo. #Coup #AmericanCoup #Museums #Smithsonian #Fascism #ThisIsFascism #RepublicansDidThis #politics #USPol https://apnews.com/article/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-improper-ideology-558ebfab722f603e94e02a1a4b06ed4d