Trump clashes with the Smithsonian: Tracking MAGA’s remolding of arts and culture

Trump Twisting Reality with Self-Serving Falsehoods and Shameless Censorship

Let’s stop pretending this is normal. Donald Trump isn’t just spinning the truth anymore—he’s ripping it up, tossing it in the shredder, and replacing it with whatever version makes him look good. And if you get in his way, you’re out. Take what just happened at the Smithsonian. A display board at the National Museum of American History was recently removed. What did it say? It listed Trump’s two impeachments. That’s it—plain historical fact, si…

The Trump administration takes a very Orwellian turn

Back in March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeted at the Smithsonian Institution that began as follows: “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.”

Trump clashes with the Smithsonian: Tracking MAGA’s remolding of arts and culture

President Trump in his first six weeks in office has made a number of moves to remake American arts and cultural institutions — particularly those in the nation’s capital — in the MAGA image. His administration has cut funding for arts programs, installed the president as the head of the Kennedy Center and attempted to…