The Trump administration takes a very Orwellian turn

In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institute. Started as follows: “In the last decade, the Americans have witnessed a harmonious and widespread effort to rewrite the history of our nation, and have changed the objective facts with a distorted narrative directed by ideology rather than the facts.”

Despite the high -minded rhetoric, many of them are instead of order. Finely covered effort to rewrite the date More than Trump’s liking. For example, if Emir has one of the properties like Smithsonian, he stated the desire to lift the “inappropriate ideology” – an ominous expression.

These concerns were absolutely supported this week. Recently, we have learned that some historical information that has been lost from Smithsonian is an objective date that Trump really does not like: One reference to two safety.

Smithsonian said that a board containing information was removed from the National American Historical Museum last month after the review of the “old content ın of the museum. The Board was placed in front of an existing accusation exhibition in September 2021.

Only to drive this house: the exhibition itself is about the “limits of the presidential power .. And suddenly, examples of the Congress’s efforts to limit Trumps.

It was not immediately clear that the Board was removed in accordance with Trump’s executive order. Washington Post, who broke the news, said that a source came to content review After the pressure of the White House To remove the director of an art museum.

In other words, we do not know all the details of how it fell – including whether or not to remove it, or whether museum officials may have decided to soothe in the midst of Trump’s pressure. Smithsonian expression On Saturday, he will talk about “not asked by any administration” or removing the content of the government official and all the efforts of an updated version of the exhibition, including Trump.

But it’s all beautiful Orwellian. And this is not the only example.

Trump has always been quite clear about the efforts to rewrite history with its own mistakes, and it is not ashamed to apply pressure on people who will serve as the neutral referees of the current narrative. However, this week, it took things to another level.

Trump on Friday Working Statistics Office fired the Commissioner. This arrived just a few hours after this agency gave Trump very bad news: The worst ofCThree -month number of jobs since 2010 ovid.

Some Trump allies, Dr. They tried to put a good face on this issue, arguing that the abolition of Erika Mcentarfer was guaranteed, because the major revisions in the job numbers were betrayed. But like he did with him Eight years ago, FBI director James B. ComEY’s ignitionTrump quickly weakened all this. “We fired him because we didn’t believe in the numbers,” he said to Newsmax.

To the extent that Trump filed a real evidence -based lawsuit to expel Mcentarfer, The evidence was conspiratory and wrongAs Daniel Dale from CNN was documented on Friday.

And even some Republican senators agreed that this could happen. Exactly Draconian and as much as it seems to be self -service. Senator Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming said “hasty” to expel the Bls head before learning whether the new numbers are really wrong.

“If the numbers are correct and the president is not as hoped, not the statistician’s mistake,” he said.

From North Carolina. Thom Tillis, if Trump “the numbers do not like because they do not need to grow,” he added.

Sens Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski from Kenucky from Alaska are concerned that Trump’s movement will do so, so that people cannot trust the data given by the management.

And that’s the real problem here. Trump does not seem to be firing someone as retaliation; The message sent to everyone in a similar position. The message is that you may want these data and these results to be Trump’s liking or something else.

A recipe to achieve too much unreliable data and results. And to the extent that knowledge is intact, it will create doubts about the books cooked both among normal Americans, and most importantly among those who make key decisions affecting the economy. What happens if the next job report is great? Will the markets believe this?

We have definitely seen quite blunt Trump efforts to control such narratives and rewrite history before. A sampling:

• The January 6 defendants attacked Capitol in his name, even a year of effort to make sympathetic patriots. call Before forgiving them, “hostages”.

• Management efforts The diversity, equality and the inclusion of the government often eliminates only things that celebrate black people and women.

• He and his administration occasionally received the opinions of the free speech rights of those who do not agree with them, including talking about protests only – so there is no need for violence – “illegal”. At one point, a loyal US lawyer threatened to follow people criticizing Trump ally Elon Musk at that time Even for non -criminal behavior.

They all strengthen the idea that Trump is trying to reinforce power by taking very heavy and open tactics.

However, if there is a week that really takes home, how long these efforts can be.

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