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Trump Administration Seizes Editorial Power Over Smithsonian Museum Exhibits

The institution's American history museum, natural history museum, African American history museum and American Indian museum are all affect

Sara Boboltz at HuffPost:

Top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration are carrying out a massive review of the Smithsonian Institution’s museum exhibits, curatorial materials and other operations in advance of the country’s 250th anniversary next year. The review is meant to better align the vast institution — which encompasses 21 museums, 21 libraries and a zoo — with Trump’s views, specifically those he outlined in a March executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” That order explicitly calls for the Smithsonian Institution to be analyzed. A Tuesday letter addressed to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch outlined the administration’s expectations. “This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions,” it said.

The letter bears the signatures of Lindsey Halligan, Vince Haley and Russ Vought, who serve as senior staff secretary, director of the Domestic Policy Council and director of the Office of Management and Budget, respectively. The officials say their goal “is not to interfere with the day-to-day operations of curators or staff.” However, they demand a huge array of materials be provided for their review. [...]

Within 120 days, the Smithsonian is expected to “begin implementing content corrections.” Officials will target eight museums first, before expanding to “Phase II,” which is not described. The museums include: the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

The censorship-happy Trump Regime seizes editorial power over Smithsonian’s museum exhibits to “screen” out exhibits that don’t align with Tyrant 47’s history revisionist vision of America whitewashing the unpleasant parts of American history.

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Trump orders signs warning of ‘inaccurate information’ at Smithsonian museum

The move marks the Trump administration’s latest effort to present American history in alignment with its ideology.

Sydney Carruth at MS NOW:

If President Donald Trump gets his way, the first thing visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be greeted with are signs warning them that because of “inaccurate information presented in the Museum” they should seek “accurate information” elsewhere. The president on Friday ordered the installation of temporary “warning” signs on the museum’s sidewalks, marking a major escalation in his campaign to pressure the Smithsonian Institution to rewrite American history to better align with his administration’s ideology.

The executive order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and several other Cabinet officials to utilize “all available authorities to encourage” the Smithsonian Institution to “correct the issues found” in a scathing  White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of “extreme political activism” and claimed it “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.” The sidewalks and walkways outside of the popular museum, which welcomes just shy of two million visitors annually, are federal property controlled by the National Park Service. The signs would “notify visitors that the Museum exhibits should be renovated consistent” with the findings of the July 4 report. They would also “direct visitors to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America’s history.” Trump also accused the museum of failing to “to appropriately honor the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence during this 250th anniversary year of the founding of our country,” and instructed Burgum to install “temporary exhibits” on Smithsonian walkways to correct “inaccurate information presented in the Museum.”

Censor-happy Trump Regime orders politically-motivated warnings about “inaccurate information” to be placed at the National Museum of American History.

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