What to Know About Trump’s Order Taking Aim at the Smithsonian
The president’s order called for curbing the independence of the sprawling network of museums and urging it to promote ...
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What is the Smithsonian, and why is President Trump unhappy with it?
The Smithsonian now operates a broad ... Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster Trump's executive order and its potential impact were met with dismay. Dorothy Wilson, visiting the National Museum of ...
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Why President Donald Trump now has a problem with the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian is just the first target ... African American History and Culture on Friday, Trump's executive order and its potential impact were met with dismay. Dorothy Wilson, visiting for ...
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Trump executive order seeks to 'restore' American history through Smithsonian overhaul
Performer and cultural strategist, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, former head of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...
Head of African American Museum on leave as Smithsonian faces Trump pressure
Kevin Young, an acclaimed poet who was named director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2021, ...
Trump’s Order Puts the Smithsonian’s Chief in the Hot Seat
The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...
With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars
On March 27, 2025, the president issued an executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which asserted, “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed ...
Targeting museums, Trump seeks to rewrite history and benight the future
"Any attempt by government to control which knowledge is 'proper' is rankest authoritarianism," writes one reader. Another ...