Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an enforcement bid Thursday that targets backing to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

Trump said determination has been a “concerted and widespread” effort implicit the past decennary to rewrite American past by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted communicative driven by ideology alternatively than truth.”

He signed an enforcement bid putting Vice President JD Vance successful complaint of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, acquisition and probe centers and the National Zoo.

Trump's bid specifically names the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Women's History Museum, which is successful development.

“Museums successful our Nation's superior should beryllium places wherever individuals spell to larn — not to beryllium subjected to ideological indoctrination oregon divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” the bid said.

Representatives for the Smithsonian did not instantly respond to an emailed petition for comment.

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, acquisition and probe complex. It consists of 21 museums and the National Zoo. Eleven museums are located on the National Mall successful Washington.

The instauration was established with funds from James Smithson, a British idiosyncratic who near his property to the United States to recovered “at Washington, nether the sanction of the Smithsonian Institution, an constitution for the summation and diffusion of knowledge.”