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White House gripes against Smithsonian come despite president’s past praise of museums like National Museum of African ...
Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments." ...
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 ...
Lindsey Halligan, the president's special assistant, told Fox News "we can’t just keep focusing on the negative." ...
Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading President Donald Trump’s overhaul of the Smithsonian, thinks its museums ...
The top Trump official tasked with reshaping the Smithsonian’s collections into a more conservative presentation argues that, ...
On Wednesday, Donald Trump sicced his racist thought police on museums and other cultural institutions for being too ...
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.” ...
White House officials are launching a review of some of the Smithsonian’s museums aimed at ensuring “alignment” with President Trump’s “directive to celebrate ...
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Scholars are pushing back against the Trump administration’s plan to conduct a "comprehensive internal review" of the ...