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The White House on Thursday released a list of what they consider “out of control” content at the Smithsonian, after Donald Trump attacked the institution earlier this week as too “woke.” On Truth Social,
President Trump's adviser leading a review of Smithsonian museums' content defended the move as shifting the focus to progress, rather than dwelling on past mistakes, and argued that the museums should be geared toward pride in America's growth.
Rep. Alma Adams says Trump 'misunderstands museums’ role, stressing slavery’s history cannot be whitewashed' after his criticism of the Smithsonian.
A traveling version of the thought-provoking Smithsonian exhibition “Americans” will begin a six-year national tour in August. Based on the major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, “Americans” explores how deeply intertwined American Indians are in the history, popular culture and identity of the United States.
President Trump — who regularly denounces anything he dislikes as “fake news,” even when it is accurate — is now demanding that Smithsonian Institution museums undergo an overhaul to present a fake version of history that erases America’s flaws.