{"id":4508,"date":"2026-07-07T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:05:12","slug":"trump-looks-to-rewrite-history-at-the-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4508","title":{"rendered":"Trump looks to rewrite history at the Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>Coming from the leader of almost any other major museum, the comments made around the celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary by Lonnie Bunch III, the head of the Smithsonian Institution, would have seemed almost self-evident truths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4506\">The 4 most pressing questions about the Maine Senate contest right now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Smithsonian\u2019s mission, Bunch told CNN last week, is to \u201cgive you questions and answers that will make you understand the complexity of who we are as a nation\u201d using \u201cthe best nonpartisan scholarship we have.\u201d On NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d he said the institution was like the glue that holds the nation together. \u201cRed states, blue states &#8212; whatever your politics, you come to the Smithsonian,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But after more than a year of intense pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies over what they term \u201cimproper ideology\u201d in the Smithsonian\u2019s presentation of U.S. history and culture, Bunch\u2019s comments amounted to a public glimpse into a far less diplomatic, behind-the-scenes battle for control of the institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The inside story of the fight for control of the Smithsonian underscores how Trump has tried, with varying degrees of success, to impose his own view of American history, erase \u201cwokeness,\u201d influence which artists are worthy of exhibits and oust top leaders of the institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bunch spent much of the past year seeking to fend off or mitigate escalating demands from the administration to address what a White House report, issued Saturday amid the July 4 festivities, characterized as a drive that \u201chas moved the museum\u2019s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The blistering report focused on the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History. It followed a March 2025 executive order from Trump, titled \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bunch, the first Black secretary of the Smithsonian, has largely avoided engaging publicly with Trump\u2019s criticisms. Without mentioning the president, he told CNN on Friday: \u201cIt scares me when people aren\u2019t brave enough to face their history. And in some ways you have to face it anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vince Haley, the director of the White House\u2019s domestic policy council, said that \u201cthe least we owe our Founding Fathers is an honest and inspiring account of who they were, what they did and what they built.\u201d The Smithsonian declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This account of the backstage battle is drawn from reporting for the book \u201cRegime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,\u201d and is based on documents and interviews with a wide range of people with knowledge of the events, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The struggle dates to Trump\u2019s first term, when he and Bunch, a historian and museum curator who had overseen the National Museum of African-American History and Culture and had taken over at the Smithsonian in 2019, quickly developed a difficult relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bunch described in his 2019 memoir the moment he took the new president on a tour of the African-American history museum in early 2017. Trump appeared uninterested in the history of slavery in the United States, Bunch wrote. As they passed an exhibit on the Dutch role in the slave trade, Trump\u2019s only comment was, \u201cYou know, they love me in the Netherlands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was so disappointed in his response to one of the greatest crimes against humanity in history,\u201d Bunch wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When Trump won the 2024 election, Bunch\u2019s allies knew his criticism of the president could come back to haunt him. But at first glance, Trump seemed limited in what he could do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Created by Congress in 1846, the Smithsonian is governed by a Board of Regents, made up of 17 members: The chief justice of the United States serves as chancellor and presiding officer, along with three senators, three members of the House and nine citizen members, plus the vice president. The board structure was designed to insulate the Smithsonian from partisan politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But a warning sign came just four days after Trump\u2019s inauguration last year with the appointment of a new regent &#8212; a Trump ally, Rep. Carlos Gim\u00e9nez, R-Fla. Gim\u00e9nez soon made his presence felt, at the traditional dinner in April that the regents held before the next day\u2019s full board meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Seated two chairs to Bunch\u2019s left at the dinner in the National Postal Museum on April 6 last year, Gim\u00e9nez listened as the regents, one by one, expressed support for Bunch. But when it was Gim\u00e9nez\u2019s turn to speak, his principal message was: I don\u2019t know you, and so I cannot support you. No one rose to defend Bunch, a painful point that he would make to some board members afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the board meeting the next morning, Gim\u00e9nez posed a seemingly benign question: Was there a process for reviewing exhibits?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The answer was complicated. Potential exhibitions had traditionally been assessed through a committee system, with major decisions finalized by Bunch and the regents. In recent years, the Smithsonian had developed additional reviews taking into account visitor preferences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the institutional sprawl of the Smithsonian &#8212; 21 museums, the National Zoo and 14 research and education centers &#8212; meant there was no flowchart or standard process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Gim\u00e9nez pressed for details of what filters exhibitions and acquisitions went through, it was apparent that the White House and its allies had found an opening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Within weeks, Trump declared on social media that he was firing the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, calling her \u201chighly partisan\u201d and a \u201cstrong supporter of DEI.\u201d It soon became clear that Trump was unhappy about a photograph of himself in the Portrait Gallery. It was awful, he would say to others. He objected strongly to the text on the wall noting his two impeachments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On June 2 of last year, Bunch and the regents, including Vice President JD Vance, hastily gathered for an emergency videoconference meeting. Trump repeatedly phoned Bunch during the proceedings, forcing him to step away time and again as Vance and Gim\u00e9nez echoed the president\u2019s demand for Sajet\u2019s ouster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4504\">Trump passports debut, delighting some and dismaying others<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Bunch eventually stopped taking Trump\u2019s calls during the meeting, but nothing was resolved and the matter was postponed to a regular board meeting seven days later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There, at the Museum of American History, the tables were arranged in a U shape and at the closed end of the U configuration, Bunch sat with Vance and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., present in his role as the Smithsonian\u2019s chancellor. The other regents sat along the sides, with Gim\u00e9nez at one end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vance advised the group that it needed to follow the president\u2019s orders about firing Sajet, adding that it could not refuse him. \u201cHe signs the checks,\u201d the vice president added pointedly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis should be an institution for everyone,\u201d Vance said. \u201cI am not demanding we hire someone with right-wing political views. I am merely asking that we not make the face of this institution a left-wing crazy person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before the meeting, several regents had agreed to pass a resolution stipulating that the president had no standing to make personnel decisions. They wanted to make sure their resolution was put to a vote before Vance and Gim\u00e9nez could put forward their resolution calling for the dismissal of Sajet, who was still showing up for work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vance indicated again that if Sajet was not dismissed, the White House would explore the option of defunding the Smithsonian. The White House did not have the authority to do that, some regents shot back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>John Fahey, the former head of Time Life Inc. and National Geographic, and Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., were especially emphatic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When Vance argued that the Smithsonian was politicizing the nation\u2019s history, Peters retorted: You\u2019re coming here threatening to cut off funding to the Smithsonian if we don\u2019t paint the picture you want. That\u2019s politicizing it. Vance disagreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The vice president at one point left the room briefly, leaving Ben Moss, his policy director, in his seat. Moss pulled up an image on an iPad of the Statue of Liberty depicted as a Black transgender woman holding aloft a lamp filled with flowers. It was a painting by Amy Sherald, a renowned Black artist who had painted Michelle Obama\u2019s official portrait for the Smithsonian. It was set to be included in an exhibition of her work at the National Portrait Gallery in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis image,\u201d Moss declared, \u201cis also a problem.\u201d He held up the digital image of the painting, \u201cTrans Forming Liberty.\u201d \u201cThis,\u201d he said, \u201cis not what Americans want to see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A stunned silence descended. Roberts steered the meeting to passage of the resolution affirming the board\u2019s authority over personnel, defusing the crisis over Sajet for the moment. But four days later, Trump got what he wanted anyway. Sajet resigned, explaining in a note to staff that it was \u201cthe best way to serve the institution.\u201d On July 23, Sherald abruptly canceled her exhibition; she said the Smithsonian had privately tried to open the painting up to public debate over trans rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A few weeks later, the White House sent a letter to the Smithsonian, outlining a top-to-bottom assessment of everything from wall texts on exhibitions to websites and social media content. Current and future exhibitions would be reviewed with particular focus on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Smithsonian Executive Committee scheduled an emergency meeting for the next day. Roberts, Bunch, the three-person executive committee, senior staff and lawyers were all in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bunch proposed issuing a public letter, making plain that any review was the responsibility of the institution alone. But executive committee members promptly voiced concern that this would pit them all directly against the president and would almost certainly become a political fight with Trump, one that could damage the Smithsonian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It became clear that the chief justice, who appeared mindful of taking a long-term approach to protecting the Smithsonian\u2019s interests, shared those concerns. His colleagues thought such a letter in this case would set the chief justice himself against the president, and not on points of law, but on cultural interpretations of how a country should see itself. Bunch\u2019s proposal was put aside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bunch would tell allies he felt disrespected by Vance and Gim\u00e9nez. He was also quietly pressed by supporters either to quit or be more outspoken in opposition to the White House. In the end, he chose a less confrontational approach intended to sidestep the immediate tensions while protecting the institution far beyond Trump\u2019s tenure in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the White House has been biding its time, too. The board has been missing two members since their terms expired in March. The administration, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions, has been hoping to sway who will be chosen as replacements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The exhibit that Bunch went on to curate for the 250th anniversary, titled \u201cAmerican Aspirations,\u201d highlighted American ideals such as liberty, fairness, democracy, hope, defending freedom and progress. The pieces included Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech,&#8221; Thomas Jefferson\u2019s writing desk and astronaut Sally Ride\u2019s flight gear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The exhibit includes explicit references to the nation\u2019s history of slavery and inequality: a hymnal used by Harriet Tubman; a reminder that the Statue of Liberty was originally a gift to celebrate America\u2019s end to the brutal practice, with broken chains hidden beneath her robes; and a Plymouth Rock fragment accompanied by words from Malcolm X.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI love the Smithsonian, and I love thinking creatively about, how do you protect the Smithsonian?\u201d Bunch said in an interview with The New York Times in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen you\u2019re Black in America, you\u2019ve got to figure out how to get through, right? You\u2019ve got to figure out how to build allies, when to stand firm, when to bang the table,\u201d he said. \u201cSo in some ways, all of that prepared me for this moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4502\">\u2018CatsOnACouch\u2019 Instagram account owner sues over exclusion from VP Vance event<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>This article originally appeared in The New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian Institution has faced intense pressure from the Trump administration during his second term in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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