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Trump and Smithsonian Museum Have Different Ideas

Trump and Smithsonian Museum Have Different Ideas

Trump and Smithsonian Museum Have Different Ideas
The people who created a Smithsonian exhibit have worked on projects about race, gender, and social justice before.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has an exhibit called Entertainment Nation that looks at how popular culture has shaped American life.
All the people who worked on the Entertainment Nation exhibit have written or talked about social justice issues in their other work.
Trump ordered signs to be put up outside the Smithsonian Museum because of a disagreement about how American history is presented.
A video at the start of the Entertainment Nation exhibit shows a clip from The Handmaid's Tale and has scantily clad women in it.
A White House official said the Entertainment Nation exhibit promotes 'fringe or activist ideologies' instead of real history.
The lead curator of the exhibit said it was meant to look at broader social movements, not just present a traditional history of entertainment.
The curators have looked at entertainment through the lens of racial exclusion, gender stereotypes, and other social conflicts.
One curator wrote a book about how sports in the US were developed and how they affected different groups of people.
The book says that the development of sports in the US was a choice made by powerful white men to create a culture that benefited them.
A video shows the director of the Smithsonian saying she sees history as a tool for social justice.
An exhibit at the Smithsonian honors Dr. Anthony Fauci.
One curator has focused on music, race, and social justice in her work, including a project about the Black Lives Matter movement.
This curator wants to connect history to the ongoing fight for civil rights and social justice in the US.
The entrance to the Entertainment Nation exhibit is at the National Museum of American History.
The exhibit looks at the history of American colonialism.
The curators make fun of Indiana Jones as a 'stoic white male'.
The exhibit displays objects that represent progressive athletes, including a tie with the names of African Americans who were killed.
A placard at the museum calls Alexander Hamilton a 'flawed founding father' and praises the casting of people of color in a play about him.
A sign in the exhibit says 'I feel very proud to be Mexican'.
The curators have given talks and written about social justice and how it relates to music and entertainment.
One curator co-hosted a podcast that looked at why Black feminist critique is important.
Here is a timeline of the fight between Trump and the Smithsonian over 'woke' history.
The Entertainment Nation exhibit is at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
All the curators have looked at issues of race, gender, and identity in their work.
Fox News Digital tried to contact all the curators, but they did not get any responses.
A Smithsonian representative said their work is driven by scholarship, evidence, and nonpartisanship.
The current controversy started when Trump signed an order to review the Smithsonian's exhibits and programs.
There were allegations of bias in the Entertainment Nation exhibit, which drew national attention.
A White House official said taxpayers should not fund institutions that promote one-sided, divisive narratives.
The official criticized the exhibit for using left-of-center language to portray America negatively.
The Smithsonian America 250 exhibit has more liberal items than conservative ones.
Some curators have talked about why they chose certain items for the exhibit.
One curator got a costume from The Handmaid's Tale for the exhibit because of its importance to liberal protest movements.
The curator said the costume was important because it symbolized resistance to the Trump administration.
Some people have protested the Smithsonian's leadership and its political views.
A curator said he believes popular culture is a good way to introduce complex social issues to museum audiences.
The curator wrote about a folk musician who was involved in left-wing politics and praised communist figures.
The musician founded a record label that produced songs about communist leaders.
A curator described the musician as 'singing truth to power' and creating music that reflected the hopes of people trying to make sense of the world.
The curator uses a gender-neutral term for Filipinos in his work and has written about historical abuses against Asian Americans.
Another curator shares posts from left-wing organizations on social media and has written about Latinx music and culture.
The seventh curator has written about race and racism in American sports history.
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The White House said the Smithsonian no longer treats American history as a shared national story, but as a tool to divide people.