The report comes in the midst of Trump’s aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and historic institutions
A White House report has branded the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, particularly the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who are untrustworthy, signaling Donald Trump's potential move to appoint his own team.
This report, issued by the White House Domestic Policy Council on Independence Day, aligns with President Trump's aggressive efforts to reshape Washington's prominent cultural and historical institutions.
Earlier in March, Trump had already indicated his intent to enforce changes at the Smithsonian through an executive order, which aimed to cut funding for programs promoting "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," as part of his ongoing critique of what he perceives as overly liberal culture.
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Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 148 pts · 59d
I wonder if the country will ever recover from the damages this man has caused
aeiou@piefed.social · 128 pts · 59d
We still haven't recovered from Reagan
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 59d
I'd say most of US politics is still trying to drive us further down the ludicrous path Reagan charted
village604@adultswim.fan · 15 pts · 59d
Everything wrong in this country is a game of 6 degrees from Ronald Reagan.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 57d
Reagan
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 59d
What if it something else... Worse... Like what if America never really was what it was marketed to us to be.
kescusay@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 59d
It wasn't. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to make it be the best version of itself it could be, and fight tooth and nail against attempts to make it worse.
darth_grunkus@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 59d
Many people have died since January 2025 that would be alive if Kamala had won. There is no undoing that. I don't think we have any state sponsored necromancers.
DokPsy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 59d
Not for the poors anyway
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 59d
No, but McConnell is currently hanging on through black magic and a heart bypass machine.
(I assume. I'd bet money he is only alive on a technicality.)
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 57d
And some are alive that very much should not be.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 59d
It’s not just one man. Congress could stop him at any time if they wanted. One party wants this.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 59d
One party wants this, but if we're talking about Congress there's a whole lot of people in the other party that don't want to stop this.
lethalspatula@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 59d
I doubt it
tangeli@piefed.social · 5 pts · 59d
If Trump can become emperor that will, in some sense, be at least a partial recovery of the Roman Empire. To such extent, the country may, some day, recover.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 59d
...so far.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 59d
Something tells me we should trust the Smithsonians leadership.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 59d
The bar is so low that a confessed pedophile who registers as a small sex offender and seeks help is MORE trustworthy than this president.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 59d
Yeah let’s all listen to the deeply corrupt and incompetent demented rapist
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 59d
The current Secretary of the Smithsonian is a Black guy who was just featured on Meet the Press. I'm sure that's a coincidence.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 59d
Headline should read: "Pathological Liar, trump, says someone else is not trustworthy"
Corvidae@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 59d
I was watching a video about the Chumash Indians, how they were moved to and congregated around the missions of Southern California (to save their souls) where they got European diseases and died. I've visited several of those missions multiple times, those stories are not advertised. It seems the concept of hiding our truths has a deep and storied history, just like in this Smithsonian story. Meanwhile, one of the oldest works of fiction on the planet, the Holy Bible, cannot be touched by the US government by First Amendment mandate.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 59d
He probably wants to take it over and call it "The Trump Institute".
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 59d
The Donald Trump Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
That would be his presidential library...
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 59d
maybe he'll just put "THE DONALD TRUMP AND" above the sign like last time.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d
He has one spare, indeed.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 57d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrermuseum
Just following his heroes.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 59d
He's big mad about his poor State of a Fair.
tangeli@piefed.social · 7 pts · 59d
To sufficiently stroke Trump's fragile ego and compensate for his small hands, I think is what they meant.
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 57d
Experts? Can't trust experts. Gotta trust this fat fucking rapist conman, his mail-order whorebride, and their anchor babies who stole from a child's charity.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 57d
Yeah, you can only trust memes and shitposts from pig-ignorant sisterfucking fundies. Can't trust them edumacated people, no sir.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 57d
Low IQ felon pedophile rapist and his fascist sycophants complain about museum.
Sounds about right.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 57d
Next up, a preserved Big Mac that Trump once ordered but decided not to eat. It'll replace the constitution exhibit.