US President Donald Trump ordered on Thursday that “incorrect, dividing or anti -American ideology” be removed from the Smithsonian Institution. In the Executive Regulation, President Trump ordered the vice -president JD Vance to conduct the event.
The Smithsonian institution, located in the US, is the world’s largest museum, an educational and research complex with 21 museums, 14 educational and research centers and the National Zoo – “shaping the future by preserving heritage, discovering new knowledge and sharing our world resources”.
What the executive order says
The Executive Regulation states: “The museums in the capital of our nation should be places where individuals learn – must not be exposed to ideological indoctrination or dividing stories that distort our shared history.”
“To develop this policy, we will restore the Smithsonian Institution to its legitimate place as a symbol of inspiration and American size – ignites the imagination of young minds, honors the wealth of American history and innovation, and instill pride in the hearts of all Americans,” he says.
The order ordered the interior department to restore federal parks, monuments and monuments that have been “removed or changed in recent years to maintain a false revision of history”. Reuters reported.
The order called “Restoration of truth and common sense to American history” is vague about what the President considers to be anti -American ideology.
However, this suggests that Trump is trying to cleanse the elements of what conservatives consider to be a revisionist history of the United States that builds systemic racism at the core of their narrative.
According to a report, the order published by the National Museum of African American History and Culture as problematic and claims to inform visitors that “hard work”, “individualism” and “nuclear family” are aspects of “white culture”.
The Order also claims that the US Museum of Women’s History plans to celebrate athletes participating in women’s sports.
The White House did not work in the order, nor Smithsonian nor the African -American historical museum did not respond to requests for commentary.
The Order is in line with the effort of Trump’s administration to eliminate diversity programs and integration into government, universities and corporations.
Vance is a member of the Smithsonian Regent Council.
According to Trump’s Democratic Biden Administration, “it promoted a distributed ideology that reconstructed American support for freedom as fundamentally defective and caused honored institutions such as Smithsonian and national parks, false stories”.
(With Reuters inputs)
