Trump targets museums with college playbook

The Smithsonian Institute of the National American History Museum is seen on June 19, 2025 from the Washington Monument at Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his lawyers copy the game book he used to force concessions from colleges and universities and ordered him to capture what he calls “awakened” content in museums.
Trump’s command Real Social Post Calls the Smithsonian institution, which he aims for his content executive order In March.
But at the same time, it seems that not only the “museums in Washington”, but “as the last segment of the” “awakened” on all over the country as the last segment of the remaining segment “.
“President Trump will explore all options and ways to wake up and keep them responsible,” said a White House official CNBC, “President Trump, Smithsonian.”
In both cases, the article is the financing of Smithsonian – most It comes from the federal government – the president may be a great pressure point when trying to remove unwanted narratives from cultural institutions.
“Smithsonian out of control out of control, how terrible everything is discussed, how bad slavery is and how much the oppressed are not relieved – nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”
“We won’t let this happen,” he wrote.
He continued: “I instructed my lawyers to pass through museums and I start the same process as colleges and universities where enormous progress is made.”
“This country can’t wake up, because he woke up.
The shipment comes a week after the White House officials told Smithsonian that their museums will launch a “comprehensive interpretation”.
Authorities – Senior Personnel Secretary Lindsey Halligan, the Internal Policy Council Director Vince Haley and Management and Budget Director Russell Vought – Trump said they act in accordance with executive order For the management to “abolish inappropriate ideology” from Smithsonian Properties.
Eight Smithsonian museums asked them to overthrow materials within 30 days about any exhibitions about the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States and any exhibition on any other materials.
Targeted museums, national American history, natural history, Afro -American history and American Native American museums.
Smithsonian replied when he was reviewing the request and said, “The White House will continue to cooperate with our congress and the board of directors.”
By directing his lawyers to imitate the approach of his administration to colleges and universities, Trump seems to be putting Smithsonian’s background in his landscapes.
This is due to the fact that the Trump administration has hidden or threatened billions of dollars of federal research financing allocated to American universities for accusing them of doing wrong, including encouraging anti -Semitism and discrimination against conservatives.
The government’s actions affected more than two dozen universities. NPR. Some of the most important names include Elite Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Duke.
The management also launched investigations about schools and targeted tax exemption status in Harvard’s case and moved to suspend the entrance to international students.