President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday and appointed Vice President JD Vance who was responsible for 'removing incorrect ideology' from the Smithsonian Museums, including the National Zoo.
The order complained that “Americans witnessed a joint and widespread attempt to rewrite the history of our nation, to replace objective facts by a distorted story driven by ideology instead of truth.”
“Once generally respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural performance, the Smithsonian Institution has been in recent years under the influence of a division, race -oriented ideology,” read the order. “This shift has promoted stories that display American and Western values ​​as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
The examples used of a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition that said '[s]Properties, including the United States, have used Race to set up and maintain power systems.
And another in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which “declared” hard work “,” individualism “and” the nuclear family “aspects of” white culture. ”
The order also stated how the upcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum was planning to contain female transgender athletes.
Vance, who is already a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, will be charged with supervising the efforts at the Smithsonians Museums, Education and Research Centers and the National Zoo.
The order instruct VANCE to work with the congress to focus on financing for programs that promote 'division stories'.
President Donald Trump (left) signed an executive order on Thursday to set vice president JD Vance (right) who was responsible for 'removing incorrect ideology' from the Smithsonian museums, including the National Zoo
Vice President JD Vance is the leadership of an attempt to ensure that there is no 'corrosive ideology' in the Smithsonians Museums, Education and Research Centers, and the National Zoo (photo)
It is also GreenLit VANCE to name 'citizen members' of the Council of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to help implement the plan.
Moreover, the order has destroyed the Biden administration for promoting this 'corrosive ideology'.
“Museums in the capital of our nation must place where individuals are going to learn – not to be subject to ideological indoctrination or division stories that distort our shared history,” said the Order.
“To promote this policy, we will restore the Smithsonian Institution in its legitimate place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness – igniting the imagination of young spirits, honoring the wealth of American history and innovation and pride in the hearts of all Americans,” it reads.
With the Order, Trump makes up for a campaign promise to free the country from 'critical racing theory' – used by conservatives to describe educational efforts that represent slavery as the original sin of the country.
Trump has also rolled up against 'transgender ideology' – and has used several other orders to marginalize that community.
Thursday's order specifically said that Vance would collaborate with the congress to ensure that the upcoming American Women's History Museum would “celebrate the performance of women” and “men would not recognize women in any way in the museum.”
Historically, Trump has also been against movements to remove confederated monuments from public spaces, which were part of the wider 'Black Lives Matter' movement, after the death of the George Floyd by a white police station in Minneapolis in May 2020.
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The Smithsonian Castle can be seen at the National Mall in Washington, DC in a new executive order, Trump has destroyed the Smithsonian for 'Com[ing] Under the influence of a division, race -oriented ideology '
The order also gives the secretary of the interior, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, to determine whether, since 1 January 2020, public monuments, memorials, images, markers or similar property or similar property within the Ministry of the Interior have been removed or changed to minimize false reconstruction of American history, in the correct minimization of American history, the value of the American history. Ideology. '
In a similar step, Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth already returned the name Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg, originally named after a southern officer, one that helped the Southern States to lose the civil war.
However, the move has not completely reversed, because Fort Bragg is now named after Roland L. Bragg, a hunter from the Second World War with the same last name, who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Trump felt so strong against the renaming of military bases that were named after Confederates that he extended a veto for a large Pentagon issuing account prior to his departure from 2021 from the office.
Finally, the executive Order specifies Burgum to improve 'the infrastructure of Independence National Historical Park' in Philadelphia, prior to the 250th anniversary of the nation on July 4, 2026.
