President Donald Trump directed the Smithsonian Institution and Department of the Interior on Thursday to sanitize exhibitions, possibly restore Confederate monuments and remove objectionable pieces to restore “truth and sanity to American history," part of what he described as a war on “corrosive ideology.”
An executive order on Thursday instructs the Smithsonian museum system to axe any projects or exhibitions that “degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy.”
