President Trump Signs Executive Order to REMOVE “Divisive, Race-Centered Ideology” From Smithsonian | JP
President Trump just signed an epic Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
As part of the executive order, President Trump demanded an end to “the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” at the Smithsonian Museums.
Vice President JD Vance will lead the charge to restore the museums to greatness. And, all federal funding to any exhibitions that promote racial themes that “divide Americans” will be cut off.
New: President Trump signed an executive order today directing his admin & the Smithsonian to eliminate what the order calls “divisive” & “anti-American” content from museums and national parks, according to sources familiar with the order.
It also directs the VP and the…
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BREAKING NEWS: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on the Smithsonian Institution to restore “shared American values” and eliminate “anti-American ideology.” https://t.co/TopbNfx2vy
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The executive order also instructs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to restore all public monuments and statues that were removed during the previous Biden administration in order “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.”
Here’s an excerpt from the official executive order:
Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that “hard work,” “individualism,” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.” The forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports. These are just a few examples.
It is the policy of my Administration to restore Federal sites dedicated to history, including parks and museums, to solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing. Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history.
To advance this policy, we will restore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness –- igniting the imagination of young minds, honoring the richness of American history and innovation, and instilling pride in the hearts of all Americans.
The Los Angeles Times has more:
President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution of propagating “divisive, race-based ideology” and issued an executive order Thursday demanding an end to federal funding for exhibitions and programs based on racial themes that “divide Americans.”
The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” directs Vice President JD Vance to remove “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
Trump’s order also seeks to restore Department of the Interior public monuments and statues that were removed or changed “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.”
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is directed to look at all “monuments, memorials, statues and markers” that were removed or changed since Jan. 1, 2020. The bulk of public monuments in question honored Confederate leaders and were seen as offensive celebrations of the nation’s racist past. They were taken down after the racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer.
The beginning of Trump’s order claims “a concerted and widespread effort” to rewrite American history, “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
Several current exhibitions are listed in the order as evidence of the narrative the order seeks to eradicate, including a current show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum titled “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” which, according to the museum’s website, “examines for the first time the ways in which sculpture has shaped and reflected attitudes and understandings about race in the United States.”