#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.

Eeeewwwwww, #Trump’s comment saying, “We’re gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too” has such creepy dick in a box vibes.

If the #DOJ wins, as many experts predict it will, the entire executive branch would come under #Trump’s direct control, allowing him even greater power over federal policy, & leaving virtually no barriers to his #MassFirings of civil servants in favor of political stooges.

The #DOJ is aiming to get these cases to #SCOTUS, where it’s betting that enough of the right-wing justices will agree to overturn the high court’s own #precedent on #independent agencies — encapsulated primarily in a 1936 case called Humphrey’s Executor — & axe the removal protections that keep leadership at such entities as the #NLRB or #MSPB insulated from political will or vindictiveness.

“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power…there would be separate questions about whether that would violate other provisions of the #Constitution,” McArthur said.

Judge Justin Walker, a #Trump appointee on the panel, swooped in to try to salvage the moment, saying to the #DOJ atty that he didn’t think “you would have to go there,”pointing to the protections of the #14thAmendment.

The startling admission came in response to a federal judge’s hypothetical.

“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Dpty Asst AG Eric McArthur Tues in proceedings over the fired board members of two #independent agencies.