The President of the United States, Donald Trumphas signed an executive order on Thursday which aims to stop financial institution programs Smithsonian -The largest museum, educational and research complex in the world, which promotes “ideological indoctrination”, as described.
According to Trump, Smithsonian, who has 21 museums and a zoo, most of them Washington DC. “In recent years he has been subjected to the influence of a divisive and racial ideology” and has presented “US and western values as intrinsically harmful and oppressive”. In their words, “the museums of the capital of our country must be places that people come to learn, in order not to be the subject of indoctrination ideological that of divisive relations that distort our common history“The president said.
Therefore, the executive order prohibits future investments in programs that “degrade shared US values, divide the Americans for reasons of race or promote programs or ideologies incompatible with federal law and politics”. In addition, even the new standard prevents transgender women from being recognized In the Museum of History of American Women, owned by Smithsonian. The execution of these orders is part of the vice -president, JD Vance, who may recommend playing any additional action necessary to fully perform these measures.
Changes in US public monuments
The order also establishes that it must be determined if, from 20 January 2020 public monuments They have been removed or modified “to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history”.
Subsequently, descriptions, representations or other contents that “reverse the Americans of the past or life” will be eliminated from these monuments, so that, instead “, they focus on the greatness of the results obtained” by them.
After the protests of the “Matter of Black Lives” in 2020, many democratic politicians questioned the monuments dedicated to the leaders confederated in the country, and in fact during the mandate of the former president Joe Biden, the military base of Fort Bragg -a official of the American army during the war with Mexico -in the North Carolina, was renamed Fort Liberty. Now, the rule could
