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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at removing what he calls “anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and centres. The order instructs Vice-President JD Vance to lead a review of Smithsonian exhibits, including the National Zoo, to eliminate content deemed divisive or revisionist. It also tasks the Interior Secretary with restoring federal properties and monuments that have been altered or removed in the last five years. Titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, the order states that Congress should withhold funding from Smithsonian programmes that divide Americans “by race.”. It criticises the National Museum of African American History and Culture, accusing it of labelling concepts like hard work and the nuclear family as aspects of “White culture.”. The American Women’s History Museum, still in development, is also targeted for allegedly planning to "recognize men as women.". Trump has previously acted to reshape U.S. cultural institutions—firing the Kennedy Center board and naming himself chairman soon after taking office. The Smithsonian system includes 21 museums and the National Zoo, drawing tens of millions of visitors each year in Washington, Virginia, and New York. The order arrives ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with plans to restore Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
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