Kylie Message, Trump isn’t the first US politician to pick a fight with the Smithsonian. But this time could be different, The Conversation, 29 August 2025
United States President Donald Trump first signalled his intention to target the Smithsonian Institution in March, when he signed an executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.
This executive order – one of several targeting the cultural sector – vowed to remove “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology”.