President Trump signed on Thursday executive Order Target funding for programs Smithsonian institution In which he portrays his latest widely “divisive, race-focused ideology” against liberalism, which has criticized Western culture and values.
The President said in this sequence that in the last decade, by writing the “purposeful facts” again in the last decade, “wide and comprehensive” efforts have been made to re -write American history with a perverted story “instead of the truth”. He said that this story has put the “founding principles” of America in “negative light”.
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“The Smithsonian Institution comes under the influence of a divisive, breed-centered ideology in recent years,” Mr. Trump said in the order. “This change has promoted stories that depict American and Western values naturally harmful and oppressive.” She pointed to a sculpture performance at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, stating that “the United States, including the United States, has used the race to establish and maintain and maintain the power, privilege and disruptive system. ,
Order Work Vice President JD Vance, who works at the Board of Regents of Smithsonian Institution, oversees efforts to “remove unfair ideology” from all areas of the institution, including its museum, education and research center and national zoo.
It marks the latest Salvo of Shri Trump against the cultural columns of universities and arts, which he sees out of step with conservative sensations. He was recently himself Established as Chairman John F. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the objective with Overhalling Programming, which includes the annual Kennedy Center Honors Awards Show. Administration also recently Tremendous columbia University To create a series of policy changes by Threat IV League School with a loss of several hundred million dollars in Federal Funding.
The executive order also indicates the withdrawal of sculptures and monuments of confederate data, many of which were taken or replaced across the country after police. George Floid murdered In 2020 in Minianpolis and The Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement, which is in custody by Trump and other conservatives.
The President directed the interior secretary to determine whether since January 1, 2020, “The department of the interior jurisdiction has removed the public monuments, monuments, sculptures, markers, or similar properties within the department of jurisdiction of the interior or replaced to end false reconstruction of American history, minimizing the value of some historical incidents.
The order also states to improve the Independence Hall in Philadelphia till July 4, 2026, in time for the 250th anniversary of signing the declaration of freedom.
Shri Trump opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which was opened near the White House, the Women’s History Museum in 2016, which is in development, and the American art museum for criticism.
He said, “Museums in our nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn – not to be subject to ideological indigenization or divisive narratives, who distort our shared history,” he said in the order.
“We have no comments for now,” Smithsonian Institution chief spokesperson Linda St. Thomas said in an email late Thursday night.
Under the order, Vance has to work with the budget office of the White House to ensure that future funding for Smithsonian institution has not been spent on programs that “reduce shared American values, divide Americans on the basis of breed, or promote uncomfortable programs or ideologies with federal laws and policy.” The President also wants to ensure that the Women’s History Museum celebrates women and “does not recognize women in any relationship as women.”
Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It consists of 21 museums and national zoo. The eleven museums are located with the National Mall in Washington.
The institution was established by the Congress with the money of James Smithson, a British scientist who left its property to the United States, “in Washington, in the name of Smithsonian Institution, was a establishment for the growth and spread of knowledge.”
