The fascist traitors in the WH are already up to the totalitarian erasure/revising of the nation's history

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...the effort will predictably focus on what have been widely understood as institutions dedicated to and primarily operating under the vision, direction, and perspective of the racial or ethnic groups who dominate or encompass the exhibits; like the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Museum of the American Indian; in addition to the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History, National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; all with the focus on diluting or removing outright anything that doesn't comport with the sensibilities or view of two cretins who claimed black Haitians were 'eating people's pets,' with no shame, remorse, or correction after their claims were proven completely false.

We're supposed to believe that the WH presidential team which calls all migrants 'criminals, and refers to residents of Democratic cities as criminals; has a completely deluded view of just about everything that is either going on in America at present, and has no clue whatsoever about the past; this dementia-riddled racist wreck and his toady-boy sidekick who get such a thrill from degrading Americans at every opportunity are credible and fair arbiters of American history they haven't ever bothered to learn?

The fuck... cosplaying overseers and occupiers regressing America; taking away even the thin sops to blacks and Native Americans that they would have OUR OWN places to express OUR OWN view of our heritage and legacies.


WSJ: White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision

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.”

Following the review, the White House letter states that museums should make corrections that replace “divisive or ideologically driven” language with “unifying, historically accurate,” public facing materials.

But the details requested by the White House go beyond museum exhibitions and extend to organization charts, responses to visitor surveys, artists featured in galleries who have received a Smithsonian grant, a list of outside partners, and internal communications related to exhibit and artwork selection and approval. The museums are given 30 days to turn over requested materials for the initial request.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-to-vet-smithsonian-museums-to-fit-trump-s-historical-vision/ar-AA1Ko38H

in March:

President Trump issued an executive order aimed at removing what he considers improper ideologies from the Smithsonian Institution in his administration’s latest move to exert control over federally controlled cultural institutions.

Trump’s order, signed Thursday, tasks Vice President JD Vance, who serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents, and other officials with ensuring future programs at the Smithsonian don’t divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federal law and policy.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-divisive-race-centered-ideology-5025deb6?mod=article_inline

Historians Defend the Smithsonian

Approved by AHA Council, March 31, 2025

The Executive Order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” issued on March 27 by the White House, egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian is among the premier research institutions in the world, widely known for the integrity of its scholarship, which is careful and based on historical and scientific evidence. The Institution ardently pursues the purpose for which it was established more than 175 years ago: “the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” The accusation in the White House fact sheet accompanying the executive order claims that Smithsonian museums are displaying “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology.” This is simply untrue; it misrepresents the work of those museums and the public’s engagement with their collections and exhibits. It also completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.

Historians explore the past to understand how our nation has evolved. We draw on a wide range of sources, which helps us to understand history from different angles of vision. Our goal is neither criticism nor celebration; it is to understand—to increase our knowledge of—the past in ways that can help Americans to shape the future.

The stories that have shaped our past include not only elements that make us proud but also aspects that make us acutely aware of tragedies in our nation’s history. No person, no nation, is perfect, and we should all—as individuals and as nations—learn from our imperfections.

The Smithsonian’s museums collect and preserve the past of all Americans and encompass the entirety of our nation’s history. Visitors explore exhibitions and collections in which they can find themselves, their families, their communities, and their nation represented. They encounter both our achievements and the painful moments of our rich and complicated past.

Patriotic history celebrates our nation’s many great achievements. It also helps us grapple with the less grand and more painful parts of our history. Both are part of a shared past that is fundamentally American. We learn from the past to inform how we can best shape our future. By providing a history with the integrity necessary to enable all Americans to be all they can possibly be, the Smithsonian is fulfilling its duty to all of us.

The following organizations have signed on to this statement:

American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education
American Association of Geographers
American Political Science Association
American Society for Environmental History
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Association of Research Libraries
Civil Rights Movement Archive
College Art Association
Conference on Asian History
Education4All
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Institute for Historical Study
Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
Labor and Working Class History Association
LGBTQ+ History Association
Medieval Academy of America
Midwestern History Association
National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education
National Council on Public History
Network of Concerned Historians
New England Historical Association
North American Victorian Studies Association
Oral History Association
Peace History Society
PEN America
Radical History Review
Society of American Archivists
Society of Architectural Historians
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Society for the History of Children and Youth
Society for US Intellectual History
Southern Association for Women Historians
Western History Association
Woodhull Freedom Foundation

https://www.historians.org/news/historians-defend-the-smithsonian/

Despite President Trump’s denials of any connection to Project 2025 during the 2024 campaign, the extreme 900-page conservative blueprint published by the Heritage Foundation has served as a roadmap for his administration’s systematic attack on Black history. An analysis by The Lever found that nearly two-thirds of Trump’s first slate of executive orders aligned with Project 2025’s recommendations, which explicitly called for eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from American life, abolishing DEI offices and personnel, and taking enforcement action against organizations that engage in DEI initiatives. These executive orders have often resulted in the removal of Black historical figures from government websites and more.

The systematic erasure began almost immediately after President Trump’s inauguration, with a coordinated campaign across federal agencies targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across federal agencies and the revocation of Executive Order 11246, which forbade federal contractors from discriminating based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. This policy recommendation was also specifically suggested in Project 2025.

These executive orders have led to the widespread removal of celebrated African American figures from government websites, including the temporary deletion of Harriet Tubman from the National Park Service’s website. Jackie Robinson, the barrier-breaking baseball player and World War II veteran, was “mistakenly” removed from Department of Defense sites, while civil rights hero Medgar Evers, who was assassinated by a KKK member, disappeared from Arlington National Cemetery’s website honoring Black war veterans.

Furthermore, the Trump administration targeted the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016 as the only national museum devoted exclusively to documenting African American life and contributions. Trump’s executive order accused the Smithsonian Institution of promoting “divisive, race-centered ideology” and narratives that “portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.” This has resulted in multiple artifacts being removed from displays in museums. The administration has also purged military training materials featuring the Tuskegee Airmen, removed references to the oldest U.S. armory for Black militia from Virginia National Guard websites, and eliminated approximately 381 books on civil rights, racism, and African American experiences from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library. The systematic erasure has also extended to the U.S. Naval ships, which, according to internal documents obtained by CBS News, plan to rename naval ships currently honoring prominent Black leaders, including the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Harriet Tubman, and USNS Medgar Evers..

https://accountable.us/research/erasing-black-history-how-the-trump-administration-is-undermining-juneteenth-and-dei/

This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant stories of resistance against chattel slavery in the United States. The move would have destroyed knowledge about how oppressed people in the United States have successfully fought for freedom. While the Park Service walked back the revisions after public outcry, it’s just one example of the Trump administration’s campaign to curtail understanding of racism’s legacy in the United States.

The erasure at the Park Service follows President Donald J. Trump’s recent executive order targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture for being “divisive,” which led to museum director Kevin Young’s resignation last Friday. Leaders called the order a sign of the administration’s attempts to stifle cultural spaces dedicated to preserving Black history and truths that don’t align with Trump’s political ideology. The Institute for Museum and Library Studies has also been subjected to staff and funding cuts.

These actions continue similar efforts during Trump’s first term, including his ban on efforts to “inculcate” what he called “divisive concepts.” He was targeting work like the 1619 Project, a publication exploring the enduring impacts of racial slavery in the United States, including in housing, incarceration, health care, and education. Trump also created the 1776 Commission, which aimed to produce “patriotic education” that whitewashed history and understated the role racism played in shaping US political, economic, and legal systems.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/10/trump-administrations-assaults-black-history

Trump’s Orwellian Erasure of Women

Since President Donald Trump’s January 20 Executive Order against, what he calls, “illegal and immoral” DEI programs, the Trump Administration has been busy commanding an Orwellian erasure of women’s achievements from the public record. In January NASA was ordered to remove mentions of "anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc)" from its website. The Pentagon has deleted online many mentions of female military members who made history. Even a dead woman is still a threat: the Arlington Cemetery website has erased pages on female veterans.

Removing women from public recognition as astronauts, patriots, or anything else, is a step towards pretending their achievements never happened. Orwell put it best, in 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” A MAGA-revised history would read that women have always been kept at home, it is their “natural” place to work unpaid—and at unrecorded cost to them—in the interests of men and families.

And then, having erased women from the public sphere, MAGA men could to take the impunity of untrammelled power they feel in the private sphere and spread it everywhere, to move fast and take/break things.

Or, the President can order it done. Revered institutions vulnerable to his autocratic, retribution-style politics have erased women from the historical record. I just hope they backed up their databases first, so that when this memory-hole era is over, they can put the women who made history back into it with a click.

https://time.com/7284644/trumps-erasure-of-women/


Trump is whitewashing US history and embracing ‘alternative facts’

President Trump’s new executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” does just the opposite. It’s a declaration of war on American history, demanding that Smithsonian Institution museums and other facilities whitewash the truth about racism and other ugly chapters of our past and present.

In an unprecedented act of political interference in the Smithsonian — which describes itself as “the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums, 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo” — the executive order instructs Vice President JD Vance to “remove improper ideology” from Smithsonian properties.

The order says the vice president and the Office of Management and Budget will work with Congress to bar funding of “exhibits or programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federal law and policy.” Federal funds provide almost two-thirds of the Smithsonian’s $1 billion annual budget.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5223544-trump-executive-order-revises-american-history/

[pfitz59]

1. They will also look for items to steal.

For the Oval and other offices.

[Henry203]

2. He has the view

Of a person who took their last history course in 8th grade.
I would love to challenge him to the regents test in American history. Who had to take them in NY. His military academy probably didn’t take them.
I took a number of American history courses in college.

[dweller]

3. RELEASE THE PEDO PISSWIG's ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPTS

Before he can make decisions and judgements about what historical facts are to be retained or eliminated , let us see his educational achievements.
Seems only fair .



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4. Lindsey Halligan, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, has appointed herself as a Smithsonian evaluator.

“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,” stated the White House missive, which was signed by White House senior associate Lindsey Halligan, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, and Director of Domestic Policy Council, Vince Haley, reports the Journal.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-will-review-smithsonian-museums-to-make-sure-they-align-with-maga-history/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/04/21/lindsey-halligan-smithsonian-executive-order/

[jmowreader]

5. Please understand this took a lot of effort to put together

Deflecting attention from the Epstein Files is getting harder every day so Our Lord and Savior Donald Trump has to think harder to come up with stunts even more outrageous than the last ones.

Expect the SOB to shoot a man on Fifth Avenue before the year is out.

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6. in the meantime

...someone should give a shit about the shit weasel trying to erase mine and others history and hide our heroes and accomplishers from public view.

It may well be a distraction, but it's not inconsequential.

We still have generations growing up right now in America trying to find a foothold in this country who are back to fighting against their own government for recognition and a cessation of assaults on our character, history, heritage, and legacies.

[electric_blue68]

7. JFC... What a Racist, Sexist Droog he is!!! [As we all know]

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That poor National Museum of African American History and Culture; trying to educate, and enlighten USA'rs, and others.

Didn't get down to DC after Obama's 2nd Inauguration. I followed that Museum's progress to it's completion/opening. They way they constructed it's presentation was so interesting! It would/will be on the top of my list to visit if I can get back to DC.
Hopefully they can hide the stuff that's been removed and when that monster leaves the WH restore to it's prpper presentation!

Same for the Women's Museum!
National Museum of Native Americans!

Taking away Harriet Tubman, Medger Evers, Tuskegee Airmen, women vets, women in Space Exploration! Shame!

No institute is perfect but,
I love The Smithsonian!
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ARGGG!!!

I just thought of another exhibit he might want to remove - not saying what, and where it is. But years back when I found out it had been added, I went to see it. Historic! Very meaningful!

[eppur_se_muova]

8. I wonder ... can anybody possibly check that ALL these orders are carried out ?

Send the WH a letter saying you'll get right on it, then don't do anything. Answer further queries with "were working on it", then "progress has been slower than expected due to deep funding cuts". Turnip has tried to set up more than one Potemkin village, I say give him more than he can handle.

If DC is as full of dawdling bureaucrats as the RW claims, let's see them do some serious dawdling. If not, everyone in "the deep state" needs to be watching "Yes, Prime Minister" to exhaustion.