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People look during the opening night of the Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Art in Washington, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
Trump said there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
He signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo.
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