White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums

[Marener]

he was elected to do what he is doing.

So authoritarian is the new Nazi/Fascist now that you twats have realized no one listens to those words anymore?

Government trying to control the same level/instance of government is not authoritarian.

No, he wasn't.

Trump trying to control the Smithsonian is authoritarian, just like he's trying to control universities, law firms, broadcast media, and a host of all things that no one ever thought the president would personally mess with.

This is an authoritarian government. Everyone knows it. You're just too pathetic to admit it.

 

[martybegan]

No, he wasn't.

Trump trying to control the Smithsonian is authoritarian, just like he's trying to control universities, law firms, broadcast media, and a host of all things that no one ever thought the president would personally mess with.

This is an authoritarian government. Everyone knows it. You're just too pathetic to admit it.

All with interactions with the federal government, which Trump is using as per his legal authority.

You just don't like that he is forcing men off women's sports teams.

 

[candycorn]

One of your Alinsky planks is that every word is exact or else. Except for yourselves.

Wow, you used 16 words to say exactly nothing.

 

[Marener]

All with interactions with the federal government, which Trump is using as per his legal authority.

You just don't like that he is forcing men off women's sports teams.

That's the thing. There's two changes that are essential to allowing this shift.

One, the conservative judiciary has permitted conservative presidents far more authority than we thought possible.

Two, the federal government was largely premised on the idea that the president wouldn't be authoritarian and that the populace and Congress would act as an actual restraint to them.

Having supposed legal authority (which I doubt in many instances) doesn't make him less of an authoritarian.

 

[Correll]

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.

Good. We need to purge anti-American leftism from our culture. THE faster teh better.

NO MERCY. NO QUARTER.

 

[Correll]

No, he wasn't.

Trump trying to control the Smithsonian is authoritarian, just like he's trying to control universities, law firms, broadcast media, and a host of all things that no one ever thought the president would personally mess with.

This is an authoritarian government. Everyone knows it. You're just too pathetic to admit it.

The leftards that injected their retarded anti-Americanism into everything, are the bad guys here.

They need to be purged. Their work removed and thrown into the trash.

REally, tarring and feathering would be appropriate for them.

 

[martybegan]

That's the thing. There's two changes that are essential to allowing this shift.

One, the conservative judiciary has permitted conservative presidents far more authority than we thought possible.

Two, the federal government was largely premised on the idea that the president wouldn't be authoritarian and that the populace and Congress would act as an actual restraint to them.

Having supposed legal authority (which I doubt in many instances) doesn't make him less of an authoritarian.

Trump is using the powers given to him via laws passed by congress.

The rest of your bullshit is just that.

 

[Correll]

Trump is using the powers given to him via laws passed by congress.

The rest of your bullshit is just that.

Libs talk a lot of shit, because they know that they are the bad guys.

 

[Marener]

Trump is using the powers given to him via laws passed by congress.

The rest of your bullshit is just that.

Sometimes, and sometimes he's just doing shit because he wants to.

Congress never intended for the president to be this authoritarian. He's definitely abusing laws.

Just look at how he declares emergencies to seize powers whenever he feels like it. Emergency powers are for actual emergencies, not for authoritarians.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Figure it out.

Don't need to, because I don't give a fk.

 

[Hellbilly]

Good. We need to purge anti-American leftism from our culture. THE faster teh better.

NO MERCY. NO QUARTER.

You couldn’t do it with us. What makes you think you can do it to them?

 

[Correll]

Sometimes, and sometimes he's just doing shit because he wants to.

Congress never intended for the president to be this authoritarian. He's definitely abusing laws.

Just look at how he declares emergencies to seize powers whenever he feels like it. Emergency powers are for actual emergencies, not for authoritarians.

It is morally and professionally wrong to have leftards like yourself, putting anti-American propaganda into our museums.

Their works needs removed, and they need to be purged.

Tarrign and feathering would be appropriate considering what dicks they have been .

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Good. We need to purge anti-American leftism from our culture. THE faster teh better.

NO MERCY. NO QUARTER.

...but right wing, MAGA racism is great.

 

[Marener]

It is morally and professionally wrong to have leftards like yourself, putting anti-American propaganda into our museums.

Their works needs removed, and they need to be purged.

Tarrign and feathering would be appropriate considering what dicks they have been .

And yet you get all upset when people removed a monument to the confederacy who tried to destroy the country and promoted slave ownership as morally right.

******* hilarious.

Sorry if you think history is anti-American. The Smithsonian isn't into historical revisionism like you.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

It is morally and professionally wrong to have leftards like yourself, putting anti-American propaganda into our museums.

Their works needs removed, and they need to be purged.

Tarrign and feathering would be appropriate considering what dicks they have been .

So American history is anti-American propaganda now.

 

[Correll]

...but right wing, MAGA racism is great.

MAGA is not racist. Go **** yourself.

 

[Correll]

And yet you get all upset when people removed a monument to the confederacy who tried to destroy the country and promoted slave ownership as morally right.

******* hilarious.

Sorry if you think history is anti-American. The Smithsonian isn't into historical revisionism like you.

Buddy, you playing stupid is boring. We see it all the time.

In the real world, it is fine to a. support historical statues, and b. NOT support leftard propaganda in museums.


Your pretense that there is a conflict between those two, is just you being ******* stupid.

 

[Correll]

So American history is anti-American propaganda now.

Your playing dumb it noted and ignored.

 

[Marener]

Buddy, you playing stupid is boring. We see it all the time.

In the real world, it is fine to a. support historical statues, and b. NOT support leftard propaganda in museums.


Your pretense that there is a conflict between those two, is just you being ******* stupid.

Your "historical statue" is anti-American propaganda.

Not sure what part of the Smithsonian you consider to be "leftard" propaganda, but given you appear to be very stupid (judging based on your use of "leftard") I doubt you have any idea and just accept what you're told to believe.

The Smithsonian certainly don't need to be told how to educate the populace on history by a guy who references Leningrad in 2025.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

MAGA is not racist. Go **** yourself.

Racist as hell, go suck yourself, you'll get more.