White House to Vet Smithsonian to Fit Trump's Vision

[babylonsister]

I already know I cannot stand his 'vision'. Something else for him to muck up.

https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/12/white-house-to-vet-smithsonian-to-fit-trumps-vision/

White House to Vet Smithsonian to Fit Trump’s Vision
August 12, 2025 at 12:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“The White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with President Trump’s interpretation of American history,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

From a letter: “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.”

[spanone]

1. WTF? "to ensure the museums align with President Trump's interpretation of American history"

HIS interpretation of American History????

[C_U_L8R]

2. Geez, they're gonna havta remove all the big words

Even so, it's challenging to dumb things all the way down to Trump's understanding. The doofus is a stupid as a rock.

[Solly Mack]

3. Oh, goody. A whitewash.

[struggle4progress]

4. "We need an exhibit of the hundreds of Time Magazine covers honoring me!"

Fake Time magazine: How cartoonists are trying to outparody Trump’s own self-parody

Donald Trump's Delusions Of 'Time' Grandeur

[Torchlight]

5. The dulcet tunes of Horst-Wessel-Lied playing from the intercom for immersion

Under the banner reading, One Nation, One People, One Leader.

[Mossfern]

6. The last one

looks more like Lindsey Graham.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Maddow Blog-White House to review Smithsonian exhibits to ensure Trump's views are reflected

As a political matter, Donald Trump and his team have made this a difficult year for the Smithsonian. It’s poised to get much worse.

If Republicans want Trump’s critics to stop calling him an authoritarian, maybe White House officials shouldn’t tell the Smithsonian that they’ll be reviewing exhibits to ensure the president’s views are reflected. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-12T18:33:58.090Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-review-smithsonian-exhibits-ensure-trumps-views-are-reflec-rcna224589

Late last week, the museum restored information about the incumbent president to a display on presidential impeachments, but the new version wasn’t necessarily improved: It made changes to the original and removed some details.

But just because things are bad doesn’t mean they can’t get worse. The Wall Street Journal reported:

The White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with President Trump’s interpretation of American history. In a letter sent to Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three top White House officials said they want to ensure the museums’ ‘unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story’ and reflect the president’s executive order calling for ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.’

The Journal’s report, which has been independently verified by NBC News, added that Team Trump intends to scrutinize everything “from public-facing exhibition text and online content to internal curatorial processes, exhibition planning, the use of collections and artist grants.”.....

Of course, there’s no reason to believe that Americans have lost confidence in the Smithsonian, just as there’s no reason to believe the public will feel greater confidence in the museums after Team Trump advances its wildly unnecessary initiative. (The letter was signed by White House senior associate Lindsey Halligan, the director of the domestic policy council, Vince Haley, and the director of the office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought.)....

The title of the White House’s order from March said the directive was intended to restore “sanity to American history.” Given the circumstances, “sanity” is not the word that comes to mind.

[tanyev]

8. Trump is making damn sure I don't have any reason to visit D.C. for the foreseeable future.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Here is a link to trump's "fact sheet" on editing history at the Smithsonian

This "fact sheet" is very upsetting and sad
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restores-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

Here are some of the provisions of this "fact sheet"

The Order directs the Vice President, who is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

The Order directs the Administration to work with Congress to ensure that future Smithsonian appropriations: (1) prohibit funding for exhibits or programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans by race, or promote ideologies inconsistent with Federal law; and (2) celebrate women’s achievements in the American Women’s History Museum and do not recognize men as women.

The Vice President will work with congressional leaders to appoint members to the Smithsonian Board of Regents who are committed to advancing the celebration of America’s extraordinary heritage and progress.

trump had to insult the Biden administration in this "fact sheet"

COMBATING CORROSIVE IDEOLOGY: In the last decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted effort to rewrite American history and force our nation to adopt a factually baseless ideology aimed at diminishing American achievement. President Trump is fighting back by reestablishing truth in the historical narrative and restoring Federal sites dedicated to American heritage.

The prior administration pushed a divisive ideology that reconstrued America’s promotion of liberty as fundamentally flawed, infecting revered institutions like the Smithsonian and national parks with false narratives.

trump never studied history and trump's proposed revisions to history are really disgusting