President Donald Trump signed an executive order behind closed doors on Thursday that ordered federal agencies and Smithsonian to eliminate what the order calls “divisive” and “anti -American” content of museums and national parks, sources familiar with the order to ABC News said.
The order, called “Restoration of truth and sanity to American history,” addressed the Vice President and the Interior Secretary to restore parks, monuments, monuments and federal statues that have been eliminated or changed incorrectly in the last five years to perpetuate a false review of history or minimize or incorrectly reduce certain figures or historical events. “
In this archive photo of December 18, 2023, workers prepare a confederate monument for elimination in the National Cemetery of Arlington, in Arlington, VA.
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The Order also addressed Vice President JD Vance, a member of the Regent Board Smithsonian, to work to eliminate what they affirm that they are an inadequate, divisive or anti -American ideology of the Smithsonian, an institution consisting of 21 museums and 14 education and research centers.
The White House said in the full text of the executive order that during the last decade, a rewriting of history has chosen American milestones in a “negative light” and, therefore, directs museums to eliminate some historical context related to race and gender.
He added that future funds for the organization will be prohibited for exhibitions or programs that “degrade shared US values, divide Americans depending on the race or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federal law.”
In addition, he prohibited the next Museum for the History of American women to recognize transgender women “in any aspect.”
The order said that the exhibitions and programs that seek to undermine the “incomparable legacy of the nation of advancing in freedom, individual rights and human happiness” by issuing its success “as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive or otherwise irremediably defective.”
The examples given by the order include an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Museum of Art called “The form of power: American race and sculpture stories”, which the order said that “promotes the opinion that the race is not a biological reality, but a social construction” and exhibits in the National Museum of History and Culture of American African that the order said “proclaimed that” hard work ” nuclear ‘are the aspects of’ White Culture “White Culture”.
It is the last of a series of executive actions of the president in reversing the efforts of diversification, equity and inclusion throughout the federal government.
ABC News has communicated with the Smithsonian to comment.
