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Posted on 03/28/2025 3:52:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology,” the latest step in a broadside against culture he deems too liberal.
Trump claimed 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,” adding that it casts the “founding principles” of the United States in a “negative light.”
The order he signed behind closed doors puts Vice President JD Vance, who serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents, in charge of overseeing efforts to “remove improper ideology” from all areas of the institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.
The executive order also hints at the return of statues and monuments of Confederate figures, many of which were taken down or replaced around the country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is detested by Trump and other conservatives.
It also requires the interior secretary to reinstate monuments, memorials, statues and similar properties that have been removed or changed since Jan. 1, 2020, to “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology.”
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very good.
now release what the Smithsonian actually has, which
the USA discovered/found on the way west.
How did the Ass Press find out? They don’t have a reporter in the room.
American History is not necessarily for the faint of heart, snowflakes and shrinking violets. For more information about traumatic side-effects, consult your mental health professional.
The giant skeletons!
JD will straighten this all out
Release the giants and Bigfoot bodies.
Dear AP:
That means no anti-American propaganda, national socialism or any other insane, no common sense crap.
Please learn to use all of your brain and not just part of it.
I don’t want our country’s history distorted by any ideology. It certainly is not honest to present that history extremely negative way but pretending otherwise is also dishonest.
It is important that institutions like the Smithsonian do present varying views provided these are put in context of their own time.
Good luck with that - they’re about 50+ years behind the trend. History/historical administration has been lost to the left since at least the 1960s, and in upper academic institutions since the 1920s.
As much as I wish the MAGA movement well on this front - it won’t happen.
Juneteenth is Kissing Black Ass and must be abolished as a national holiday
The National Park service has expended untold $$$ creating exhibits memorializing trivial Black events.
They are never viewed by the Black population that never attends national parks.
***over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” ***
Actually this became popular in the late 1960s as radicals rewrote American History to denigrate everything that has made us a successful civilization. Howard Zinn and his so-called “History Book” used in some schools comes to mind.
A People’s History of the United States - Wikipedia
A book by Howard Zinn that presents a different side of American history from the traditional nationalist perspective. It covers topics such as colonialism, slavery, racism, labor, war, and social movements from the viewpoint of the oppressed and marginalized.
I think that book is used in more schools that you think ...
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About time the Smithsonian was hijacked by America hating leftists years ago
I get the Smithsonian magazine. Every issue is filled with black oriented propaganda. The magazine is a shadow of what it used to be. I hope the President cleans up the place and gets the Smithsonian back on track. I haven’t been to any of the museums that they operate in DC in 50 years but I bet they are over run with black propaganda as well.
“now release what the Smithsonian actually has, which
the USA discovered/found on the way west.”
I’m still wondering why they hide it. What’s the purpose?
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