Trump takes aim at perceived wokeness at museums, federal sites

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive command to exercise more control over what is being shown in Smithsonian museums and federal sites, pointing to what the White House called “division -exciting novels” promoted by some museums.

theExecutive order He claimed that the Smithsonian Foundation, which runs many museums in the country’s capital, “in recent years, has been subjected to the influence of fragmentation -focused ideology.”

“This shift has strengthened the novels that depict American and Western values ​​as harmful and repressive,” says it.

It is martyred that there is an exhibition in the American Art Museum entitled “American Stories and Sculptures” and references at the National Museum of American -African History and Culture that confirm “hard work”, “individual” and “nuclear family” are parts of “White Culture”.

“Museums in our nation’s capital should be the places where individuals learn – ideological indoctrination or division -distorting novels do not have to distort our common history,” says the matter.

This matter directs Vice President JD Vance to lead the efforts made to eliminate the content of Smithsonian museums that are not in line with the administration’s vision “to remind Americans of our exceptional heritage.”

He also directs the internal secretary Doug Burgum to determine whether any monuments, memorials or statues have been removed during the Biden administration that “perpetuates a false rebuilding of American history.”

The executive is part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to the decline in the Biden era initiatives, which were considered “wake up” or that strengthened diversity, fairness and integration.

School buses emptying visiting students in front of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, facing the museum is a statue of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Foundation, Joseph Henry.

Democrats, in particular, sought to reconsider the monuments to the Confederate leaders in the wake of the protests of racial injustice for the year 2020, which was pushed by the killing of George Floyd. Trump has again and againArgueLaboratory statues should come with severe penalties.

During the Biden administration, the name Fort Prague was changed in North Carolina Since it has been retracted By the Trump administration. Fort Prague was named after General Confederation.

Former President Joe Biden argued, during the 2020 campaign, that the federal government must protect historical figures, but local governments must remove antiquities to the Confederate leaders.

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