President Donald Trump signed a Decree on Thursday in camera, heading federal agencies and the Smithsonian on Thursday to eliminate what order calls the content “of division” and “anti-American” of museums and national parks, the sources familiar with the order told ABC News.
Order – called “restore the truth and mental health to American history” – directed the vice -president and the interior secretary to restore parks, monuments, monuments and federal statues “which have been poorly removed or modified in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history or badly minimize or disparagrite the figures or historical events”.
In this December 18, 2023, the file photo, the workers are preparing a Confederate Memorial for withdrawal from the National Cemetery of Arlington, Arlington, Virginia.
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The order also directed the vice -president JD Vance, who is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to work to eliminate what he claims to be an inappropriate, divisional or anti -American ideology of Smithsonian – an institution made up of 21 museums and 14 education and research centers – as well as the National Zoo in Washington, DC, DC and 14. – as well as the National Zoo in Washington, DC, DC
The White House declared in the full text of the executive decree that during the last decade, a rewriting of history has thrown American stages under a “negative light” and therefore orders museums to suppress a historical context relating to the race and gender.
He added that future funds for the organization will be prohibited for exhibitions or programs that “degrade shared American values, divide Americans according to race or promote programs or ideologies incompatible with federal law”.
In addition, he prohibited the next American Women’s History Museum from recognizing transgender women “in all respects”.
The Order said that the exhibitions and programs that he seeks to suppress undermine the unprecedented heritage of freedom, individual rights and human happiness “of the country by launching its success” as intrinsically racist, sexist, oppressive or otherwise imperfect “.
The examples given by the Order include an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum entitled “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture”, which the order has affirmed “promotes the point of view that race is not a biological reality but a social construction” and exhibitions at the National Museum of Family and Nuclear Family “.
This is the last of a series of executive actions of the president to reduce diversification, equity and inclusion efforts through the federal government.
ABC News contacted the Smithsonian to comment.
