White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums

[Zincwarrior]

Now you are just being a reactionay retard.

Why a Yankee defends CSA savages is...incredible.

 

[candycorn]

It always tickled me that the right wing neanderthals here constantly bitched and moaned about the NEA and CPB....organizations that promoted arts, programming and jobs in rural America but never bitched about the Smithsonian museums that did comparatively little (almost nothing) outside of DC.

As always, the blob is attacking it because it actually promotes truth and sobriety; it has nothing to do with DOGE or the largess that we supposedly can't afford.

Sometimes you just have to wonder how moronic the right wing loons are.

 

[martybegan]

It was a major speech HE WAS READING OFF THE TELEPROMPTOR.

Keep concentrating on this chickenshit, it just makes you guys look more and more desperate.

 

[martybegan]

In other words it's time to hide America's true history and teach His-story. We are still learning the evils that were hidden during slavery and Jim Crow.

Nothing needs to be hidden. What needs to be stopped is the left's constant attempts to smear current people with the sins of the past that they have nothing to do with.

 

[martybegan]

Main thing is, government should make the call. It's good to be the king!

It's a government funded and operated museum.

 

[martybegan]

Why a Yankee defends CSA savages is...incredible.

Defending the work of winners, who forgave the losers, from some current butthurt progressive babies.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Keep concentrating on this chickenshit, it just makes you guys look more and more desperate.

Not chicheknshit dumbass, its crazy. Now crazy has taken over our bastions of shared knowledge. You should be asking yourself, where in the Constitution is the Executive to do this? Why?

 

[Marener]

Defending the work of winners, who forgave the losers, from some current butthurt progressive babies.

Are you going to make the Smithsonian tell everyone how slaves liked being slaves?

 

[martybegan]

Not chicheknshit dumbass, its crazy. Now crazy has taken over our bastions of shared knowledge. You should be asking yourself, where in the Constitution is the Executive to do this? Why?

The Smithsonian is a government funded and government controlled institution.

The President controls the Executive of the government.

The left has controlled the narrative in these places for decades, now you mewl like a kicked kitten when there is even a small amount of pushback.

 

[Hellbilly]

If any of these museums have sacred Native artefacts they need to be returned to the proper tribes.

 

[martybegan]

Are you going to make the Smithsonian tell everyone how slaves liked being slaves?

I can't make the Smithsonian do anything, but Trump can, as the President, since the Smithsonian is government controlled and funded.

 

[Marener]

I can't make the Smithsonian do anything, but Trump can, as the President, since the Smithsonian is government controlled and funded.

And you guys don’t think he’s an authoritarian.

Jesus.

 

[TimFitz]

Facts = white supremacy?

It is white supremacy stuff.

And it is a racist lie.

In the first US census in 1790, nearly 18% of the US population were slaves.

Slavery skyrocketed after the introduction of the cotton gin later in that decade, and reached four million by 1860.

 

[TimFitz]

Yes, well the Nazis sought to control taste and dictate culture, too.

 

[martybegan]

And you guys don’t think he’s an authoritarian.

Jesus.

By exercising control over a government funded and indirectly run/controlled entity?

Get back to me when he goes after a Private Museum, or one controlled by the States.

 

[Marener]

By exercising control over a government funded and indirectly run/controlled entity?

Get back to me when he goes after a Private Museum, or one controlled by the States.

The idea that the president would personally control the Smithsonian would have been insane to normal people not long ago.

 

[22lcidw]

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.

The guilting needs to stop.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The guilting needs to stop.

It never started.

meanwhile, did the American voter elect Trump for this?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Nothing needs to be hidden. What needs to be stopped is the left's constant attempts to smear current people with the sins of the past that they have nothing to do with.

You had nothing to do with the good things either, but you love to celebrate it.

 

[dblack]

It's a government funded and operated museum.

Hell yes. Culture war uber alles!