Trump orders signage warning visitors of ‘inaccurate information’ at Smithsonian
The order targets sidewalks outside the museum and directs visitors to White House materials and a temporary exhibit correcting disputed history.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered the National Park Service to install signs in front of the Smithsonian Institution's U.S. history museum, directing visitors to a White House report and claiming current exhibits are inaccurate.
- This directive follows a July 4 Domestic Policy Council report asserting that the Smithsonian and National Museum of American History fail to present history in a way that is "inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic."
- Because the Smithsonian Institution operates independently under Secretary Lonnie Bunch and a Board of Regents, Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, disputed the White House report's characterization of museum work.
- Advocates and academics fear the order pressures the museum to downplay the nation's past, mirroring a Philadelphia court ruling last week allowing the administration to reinstall interpretive panels critics argue "whitewash" the history of slavery at President George Washington's home.
- Trump's push reflects a broader Republican effort to transform cultural institutions like the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including his previous attempt to install himself as chairman, later challenged by a federal judge.
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The "National Museum of American History" displeases Donald Trump. He wants to set up information boards about alleged false information. Critics accuse him of suppressing inconvenient truths.
The sign order is based on a White House report that states that the Smithsonian Institution is spreading "radical left-wing ideologies."
»The exhibitions were designed by people who don't want you to love your country.« Donald Trump wants to warn visitors of an important history museum.
Some museums in the U.S. capital are a thorn in the president's eye. Now there should even be warning signs for visitors. Critics speak of historical clatters and an ideological cultural struggle.
Trump Orders Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum to Warn of Inaccurate Exhibits
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on July 24 directing signs to be placed outside one of the Smithsonian Institution’s history museums warning visitors that some exhibits contain inaccurate information. The order references a July report by the White House Domestic Policy Council, which alleges that the National Museum of American History “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying,…
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