Smithsonian updates museum displays displays about impeachment, including Trump
The Smithsonian National Museum of History has restored President Donald Trump’s placard to his impeachment display and updated his case.
Washington Post Note that the new text has less details than the temporary signage before it.
Change is one week after A Washington Post A temporary slogan containing Trump’s name has been removed from the exhibition, the report said.
“The National Museum of History has completed the latest news on the ‘U.S. Presidential Impotence: The Glorious Burden’ exhibition,” the Smithsonians updated on the U.S. Presidential Office. ” postal August 8. “The updated display now reflects all presidential impeachment. Following the foundations of our role as a national museum, we are very careful to ensure that what we present to the public reflects intellectual integrity and thoughtful design.”
Museums in Washington, D.C. have been exhibiting since 2021. It mentions Trump’s imprisonment in resignations by Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon, and he will also face imprisonment lawsuits if he doesn’t voluntarily resign.
On August 2, Smithsonian talked about the revision in an article on X. “The placard is a temporary addition to the 25-year-old exhibition and does not meet the standards of the museum in appearance, location, schedule and overall speech,” the Smithsonian statement said. “This is inconsistent with other parts of the exhibition and blocks view of objects in the case. For these reasons, we removed the placards.”
The removal of Trump’s name has attracted criticism, including from several Democratic leaders. There is growing concern about the political intervention of a coalition of cultural institutions, including the Smithsonians, especially after the disbandment of its Office of Diversity, according to the Trump administration’s crusade against “anti-American ideology.”
“You can’t make up for that,” said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. on August 1. “This is a man who rewrites history, or thinks he can rewrite history. He can’t, but he thinks he can.” “He is reviewing the American History Museum. It’s Orwellian. It’s the downright O’Willia. It’s something you see in an authoritarian regime. It’s the head of North Korea, not the United States.”
“No government or other government officials have asked us to remove content from the exhibition,” Smithsonian said in an August 1 statement. It also said that there was no other change in the museum.
In postalWhite House official Lindsey Halligan reviewed “unproper ideology” in Smithsonian, reiterating that the White House has nothing to do with the revision. “That is, it is encouraging that the agency has taken measures that match President Trump’s executive order to restore truth to a part of American history. As part of truth, it is important to note that President Trump’s two acquittals were acquitted by the Senate, all and each of which belongs to historical records.”
