President Donald Trump signed an executive order behind a closed door on Thursday directed federal and Smithsonian agents to eliminate what the command was called “divisive” and “anti-American” content from the museum and national park, the source who was familiar with the order told ABC News.
Orders – called “Restore the Truth and Sanity of American History” – Directing the Vice President and Domestic Secretary to Restore Federal Park, Monument, Warnings, and Statues that have been deleted or changed incorrectly in the last five years to perpetuate the revision of the wrong history or minimize or underestimate the historical number or certain events. “” “
In December 18, 2023, photo files, workers prepared a confederation warning to be deleted at the Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, VA.
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The order also directed Vice President JD Vance, who is a member of the Smithsonian Regent Council, to work to eliminate what he claimed was an inappropriate ideology, divisive or anti-American from the museum, education center, and the Smithsonian research center and the National Zoo in Washington, DC
The White House says in the full text of the executive order that over the past decade, history rewrite has thrown American milestones in “negative light” and therefore directing the museum to erase several historical contexts related to race and gender.
He added that future funds for organizations will be prohibited from exhibitions or programs that “reduce American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies that are inconsistent with federal law.”
In addition, it banned the American Women’s History Museum who came from recognizing transgender women “in any case.”
The order says that the exhibition and program to be removed to weaken “the unmatched inheritance of the state in advancing human freedom, individual rights, and happiness” by throwing its success “as racist, sexist, oppressive, or disabled inherently.”
Examples Given by the order includes an exhibit at the smithsonian american art museum called “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” Which the order claimed “Promotes the view that is not a biological reality but a social power” The Museum of African American History and Culture that the order said “Proclaimed that ‘hard work,’ ‘Individualism,’ and ‘The Nuclear Family’ are Aspects of ‘White Culture.'”
ABC News has contacted Smithsonian to comment.