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(71,741 posts) Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:06 PM 18 hrs ago

White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can't be trusted

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Source: The Associated Press via WTOP

White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can't be trusted

The Associated Press
July 5, 2026, 1:53 PM

FILE - The Smithsonian Museum of American History is pictured on the National Mall in Washington, April 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

NEW YORK (AP) -- A White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who cannot be trusted, indicating that President Donald Trump may be preparing to install his own team.

The report released late on Independence Day by the White House Domestic Policy Council comes in the midst of Trump's aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and historic institutions. Trump in March revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targeted funding for programs that advanced "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," as he continued a broadside against culture he deems too liberal.

"The Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America's story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic," according to the report by the council, which is led by a former top Trump speechwriter. ... The authors added: "As this report shows, confirmed in the words of Museum leadership, this ideological capture has moved the Museum's mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country."

The Smithsonian did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday.

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Read more: https://wtop.com/government/2026/07/white-house-report-brands-smithsonian-leadership-as-radical-activists-who-cant-be-trusted/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Smithsonian-Report-Saving-Americas-Story.pdf
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-smithsonian-leadership-activists-history-museum-cda2e8cff29f56a34e5a5d510bb45cda

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"Our nation was robbed." Reddit poster: Smithsonian was denied a permit for a 250th Folklife festival on the mall.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182328151

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1ueelg6/does_anyone_actually_know_whats_going_on_at_the/

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White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can't be trusted (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 18 hrs ago OP

Oh, for God's sake, make it stop. sinkingfeeling 18 hrs ago #1

they want to replace the dinosaurs with noah's ark rampartd 17 hrs ago #2

The Secretary of the Smithsonian is a black man and the Director of the Museum of History is a woman. Botany 1 hr ago #18

Another act to be reversed if Dems eve get back in there SpankMe 17 hrs ago #3

Sounds slanderous to me Ritabert 17 hrs ago #4

"Ideological capture" is exactly what the regime is trying to do. They always, always project. They can't help it. Karasu 17 hrs ago #5

The 250th USA birthday celebration was a total fuck up................ Lovie777 17 hrs ago #6

Leave The Smithsonian alone, you effer! electric_blue68 16 hrs ago #7

You know that they're going to destroy artifacts... LakeVermilion 16 hrs ago #8

I've been worried about this for a while now Nittersing 16 hrs ago #9

Never even thought about looting... LakeVermilion 15 hrs ago #10

by the time he is gone there will be nothing decent left nt msongs 15 hrs ago #11

So does the Slobfather plan to fire everyone and rename it after himself? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 14 hrs ago #12

New Smithsonian "leadership" will likely have the Confederacy winning the Civil War. no_hypocrisy 14 hrs ago #13

With nearly every pronouncement by the PedoPrez and his cronies... WestMichRad 13 hrs ago #14

Trump changed the name of America 250 which was bipartisan to Freedom 250 and stole all the money. Botany 1 hr ago #20

Of course they were branded "radical activists who can't be trusted." They are historians and scientists whose mission Martin68 12 hrs ago #15

fat orange imbecile wants 100% obedience wolfie001 3 hrs ago #16

This is right out Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R. under Stalin, North Korea, and Chairman Mao's China playbooks Botany 2 hrs ago #17

At what point do we collectively admit... purr-rat beauty 1 hr ago #19

sinkingfeeling

(58,310 posts)

1. Oh, for God's sake, make it stop.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:09 PM

18 hrs ago

rampartd

(5,691 posts)

2. they want to replace the dinosaurs with noah's ark

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:12 PM

17 hrs ago

Botany

(78,369 posts)

18. The Secretary of the Smithsonian is a black man and the Director of the Museum of History is a woman.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 6, 2026, 08:13 AM

1 hr ago

From the link in the O.P..

SpankMe

(3,816 posts)

3. Another act to be reversed if Dems eve get back in there

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:13 PM

17 hrs ago

Lots of damage. Lots of revisinist history. No puchback from Dems. Sad.

Ritabert

(2,889 posts)

4. Sounds slanderous to me

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:49 PM

17 hrs ago

Karasu

(2,414 posts)

5. "Ideological capture" is exactly what the regime is trying to do. They always, always project. They can't help it.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:55 PM

17 hrs ago

Their fascist party has forced us into a post-factual world that is going to be next to impossible to recover from.

Lovie777

(24,645 posts)

6. The 250th USA birthday celebration was a total fuck up................

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:56 PM

17 hrs ago

firing the weather experts like many other smart competent qualified experts in other fields, firing scientists, et al, and here we are.

Couldn't see the fireworks because of the smoke, like the Reflecting pool is messed up. East Wing demolished, WH lawn is destroyed, shithole and comrades are destroying D.C.

And now the WH have the nerve to call Smithsonian leaders radical?

Have the WH looked in the mirror?

electric_blue68

(28,074 posts)

7. Leave The Smithsonian alone, you effer!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 05:11 PM

16 hrs ago

They tell the good, and the bad of our country.
Drumphf can't handle the truth!

LakeVermilion

(1,690 posts)

8. You know that they're going to destroy artifacts...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 05:25 PM

16 hrs ago

If things aren’t done to remove and protect items before the hordes take over.

Nittersing

(8,607 posts)

9. I've been worried about this for a while now

Reply to LakeVermilion (Reply #8)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 05:54 PM

16 hrs ago

He will absolutely start (continue) looting stuff. I wonder if museums are trying to prepare for this... Like maybe getting reproductions in and hiding the real stuff.

LakeVermilion

(1,690 posts)

10. Never even thought about looting...

Reply to Nittersing (Reply #9)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 06:11 PM

15 hrs ago

Silly me.

msongs

(74,588 posts)

11. by the time he is gone there will be nothing decent left nt

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:06 PM

15 hrs ago

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(139,127 posts)

12. So does the Slobfather plan to fire everyone and rename it after himself?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:12 PM

14 hrs ago

no_hypocrisy

(55,833 posts)

13. New Smithsonian "leadership" will likely have the Confederacy winning the Civil War.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:39 PM

14 hrs ago

WestMichRad

(3,546 posts)

14. With nearly every pronouncement by the PedoPrez and his cronies...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 08:18 PM

13 hrs ago

… I think “there’s no way they can go lower than this.”
And nearly every day, they find a way to do so.

Please make it stop!

Botany

(78,369 posts)

20. Trump changed the name of America 250 which was bipartisan to Freedom 250 and stole all the money.

Reply to WestMichRad (Reply #14)

Mon Jul 6, 2026, 09:07 AM

1 hr ago

He is out of control.

Martin68

(28,382 posts)

15. Of course they were branded "radical activists who can't be trusted." They are historians and scientists whose mission

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 09:23 PM

12 hrs ago

is to portray reality. That is anathema to MAGAts.

wolfie001

(8,252 posts)

16. fat orange imbecile wants 100% obedience

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2026, 06:47 AM

3 hrs ago

That includes racism, homophobia, anti-trans and a penchant for thievery and fraud.

Botany

(78,369 posts)

17. This is right out Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R. under Stalin, North Korea, and Chairman Mao's China playbooks

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2026, 07:48 AM

2 hrs ago

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Just rewrite history to push their own agenda. What will the White House push? The good side of slavery.
The Native Americans needed to be taught a lesson. The Vietnam war was a good idea. Donald
was sent by God. Vladimir Putin is America’s best friend. Lincoln had it coming.

Trump is burning America to the ground and Stephen Miller, Bannon, Roger Stone, Musk, Leonard Leo,
Thiel, and Gorka are pushing this crap. Hell Trump had two Americans murdered in Minneapolis to send the message that he is in charge, the DoJ is defying a court order to release the Epstein files, and now
Trump has scaffolding up around the North Portico of the White House to replace the columns.

He needs to be stopped.

purr-rat beauty

(1,702 posts)

19. At what point do we collectively admit...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2026, 08:21 AM

1 hr ago

that this current administration hates everything that actually makes this country great?

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