President Donald Trump intends to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
Trump said there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
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.
The White House announcement includes examples:
Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light. Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed. Rather than fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past, the widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame, disregarding the progress America has made and the ideals that continue to inspire millions around the globe.
The prior administration advanced this corrosive ideology. At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — where our Nation declared that all men are created equal — the prior administration sponsored training by an organization that advocates dismantling “Western foundations” and “interrogating institutional racism” and pressured National Historical Park rangers that their racial identity should dictate how they convey history to visiting Americans because America is purportedly racist.
Divisive and Race-Centric
Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating, “Race is a human invention.”
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that “hard work,” “individualism,” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.” The forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports. These are just a few examples.
I, for one, hope JD Vance succeeds. The Smithsonian staff are mainly on the left, and it might not be easy.
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I was vacationing in San Diego last year and was shocked at how much the left had taken over the museums in Balboa Park. There were exhibits on cannibalism, DEI, and LGBTQ…whateverism. It was so disappointing to be spoon-fed this crap. There was even a supposed science center showing a video on the city of the future which was all about climate change.
The crazies out there have fall deep into the rabbit hole. They should just admit it, they want most of us dead so they can pursue this fantasy of a communist utopia.
“Will the Smithsonian Give Up Divisive Ideology? An EO Says They Must”
Great !!! He can start by DEMOLISHING THE MOST RACIST, VILE, BIASED, TOTAL DISTORTION OF REALITY, UN-AMERICAN PART OF THE SMITHSONIAN: the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture. I was shocked and appalled when I visited it and simply could NOT believe that the U.S. government supported such an atrocity. NO SURPRISE: MORON RINO “president -TO CHENEY” DUMBAya Bush approved this disgrace.
I’m surprised Democrats don’t want everything in the Smithsonian older than 1963 destroyed because it all came from a “racist” society.
It didn’t start out that way but now the Smithsonian is 62% Federally funded by Congressional Appropriations, Federal grants and contracts.