Trump confirms White House review of Smithsonian US history
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The National Museum of American History removed references to Donald Trump from an impeachment display in July. He has since been re-added, with some changes.
Scholars are pushing back against the Trump administration’s plan to conduct a "comprehensive internal review" of the Smithsonian, viewing it as political interference.
President Donald Trump has been moving to take greater control over the Smithsonian Institution and said earlier this week that the organization focuses too much on “how bad slavery was.”
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The New Republic on MSNTrump Aide Thinks the Smithsonian “Overemphasizes” Slavery
Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading President Donald Trump’s overhaul of the Smithsonian, thinks its museums overemphasize slavery when they should be emphasizing “how far we’ve come since slavery.”
Lindsey Halligan, the president's special assistant, told Fox News "we can’t just keep focusing on the negative."
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'What a thing': Trump official ripped for knocking Smithsonian's 'overemphasis on slavery'
Insurance attorney Lindsey Halligan is now Assistant to the President ... A section of a Trump executive order titled “Saving Our Smithsonian” directs Halligan, by name, to seek “to remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution and ...
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.
White House gripes against Smithsonian come despite president’s past praise of museums like National Museum of African American History and Culture