White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums

[rightwinger]

Ummmm 8 years of Obama, Covid ...

How did that change the other impeachments?

 

[Robert W]

I'm just trying to determine what events maga thinks the Smithsonian got wrong.

Well, that is what investigations are for, isn't that right? I can't think of a thing in the Smithsonian's that is wrong. I have been to the natural history museum, Air and space museum, Museum of American history, and of course the main Smithsonian building.

Alert: Those museums are giants and there are more Smithsonian's I have not yet gone into. Such as the museum for blacks.

 

[Robert W]

How did that change the other impeachments?

The impeachments that are really trials failed to find guilt.

 

[Robert W]

Did you see any Human Skeletons from Pre Columbian History or Neolithic ?

There is a giant museum I went through in detail where they do have what you are looking for.

 

[rightwinger]

The impeachments that are really trials failed to find guilt.

None of them found guilt

 

[Failzero]

There is a giant museum I went through in detail where they do have what you are looking for.

But no Human Skeletons ( real ) from Pre Columbian or Neolithic due to NAGPRA which is anti Science legislation

 

[Rawley]

How did that change the other impeachments?

Dude, impeachments was a small part of a larger exhibit. But only the impeachment section had been changed since 2008

 

[rightwinger]

Dude, impeachments was a small part of a larger exhibit. But only the impeachment section had been changed since 2008

OK

What else significant needed to be changed that are bigger than two presidential impeachments?

 

[Robert W]

But no Human Skeletons ( real ) from Pre Columbian or Neolithic due to NAGPRA which is anti Science legislation

okay It was when Bush was president I was there.

 

[schmidlap]

I look forward to seeing the new guidelines regarding slavery exhibits, Jim Crow exhibits, Native Americans, and Irish/Chinese immigrants. What think you USMB? Will we soon see an exhibit of Lincoln saying the CSA was right?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/08/12/white-house-review-smithsonian-institution/

White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums​

In a letter, White House officials said they would review the Smithsonian’s exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections, starting with eight museums.

The White House will launch a sweeping review of Smithsonian exhibitions, collections and operations ahead of America’s 250th-birthday celebrations next year — the first time the Trump administration has detailed steps to scrutinize the institution, which officials say should reflect the president’s call to restore “truth and sanity” to American history.



The vetting process would include reviewing public-facing and online content, curatorial processes and guidelines, exhibition planning and collection use, according to a letter sent to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III on Tuesday and signed by White House senior associate Lindsey Halligan, Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Hale and White House Office of Management and Budget chief Russell Vought.
firmed the plan, which was posted on the White House website Tuesday and first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The letter states that the initial review will focus on eight museums: the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

To begin the process, officials requested that the museums provide information within 30 days concerning 250th-anniversary programming, current and future exhibition content, and other material.

Under totalitarian regimes, politicians and bureaucrats determine what is ideologically-correct, regardless of specialized scholars having a far better grasp of historical events.

 

[Rawley]

OK

What else significant needed to be changed that are bigger than two presidential impeachments?

The exhibit is called Limits of Presidential Power. Obama significantly challenged these limits. Covid significantly stressed the limits of Presidential power.

 

[Dekster]

The arts and industries museum is the best one there when it is actually open. They are supposed to renovate it as the building is need of serious rehab

 

[BULLDOG]

They should be places that celebrate America.....Leave the unseemly "warts" to self-loathing "historians".

What you want doesn't meet the definition of a historical museum.

 

[drudge X]

Really? Post the Democrat that said that.

I already told you. Democrats believe blacks should remain on the plantation.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I think you are having fantasies of Ashley Biden or Doug Emhoff....maybe that's how you folks take it.

What are you worried your boss man gonna say "you ain't black?"

Are you worried the white Republiklans won't let you trick anymore.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

No that was a question, not a statement. I know its in a museum, but not which one.

Post #338.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I already told you. Democrats believe blacks should remain on the plantation.

Sounds more like republiklans.

 

[drudge X]

Sounds more like republiklans.

Again, Hillary Clinton said it.

 

[Robert W]

Under totalitarian regimes, politicians and bureaucrats determine what is ideologically-correct, regardless of specialized scholars having a far better grasp of historical events.

Specialized scholars will examine the Smithsonian museums for inaccuracies.

 

[schmidlap]

Specialized scholars will examine the Smithsonian museums for inaccuracies.

"Specialized scholars" whose ideological bias reflects that of the politicians and bureaucrats who control them.