The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. A person familiar with the exhibit plans, who was not authorized to discuss them publicly, said the change came about as part of a content review that the Smithsonian agreed to undertake following pressure from the White House to remove an art museum director.
A temporary label including content about Trump’s impeachments had been on display since September 2021 at the Washington museum, a Smithsonian spokesperson told The Washington Post, adding that it was intended to be a short-term addition to address current events. Now, the exhibit notes that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal.”
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People are surprised to find out that this is the reality under capitalism. When everything is tied to pandering to the upper class, you working class suckers always get the short end of the stick. Even when it comes to “liberal institutions”. If their profits are gone, they are gone. Their existence is intrinsically tied to pandering to the upper class. This is why capitalism is intrinsically fascistic.
Disgraceful.
You are a museum, a place to see history as it actually was. Caving to a dick-tator… Just wow…
Fuck if I’ll ever go to the Smithsonian after this. The Pedo is just going to pull your funding anyways so wtf???
The fucking fragility. Pathetic.
Who were the snowflakes again?
Jesus fucking Christ, what is going on lately with people just buckling under the slightest amount of pressure from Trump? Fight back you goddamn pussies.
Seriously it’s so pathetic. People will just bend over and take it.
The world needs more asshole leftists who don’t take shit from anyone. Far too many dickheads are on the wrong side of the political spectrum.
oh my fucking god. this is ridiculous. SERIOUSLY? is there going to be a SINGLE institution in this country willing to stand up against fascism???
People wonder how Germany was taken over by the Nazis. This is how.
This is the Fascist States of America and will be until someone stands up. “Home of the Brave” huh.
Home of the depraved.
Land of the fee and home of the slave.
Roughly 62% of its annual budget comes from federal. Realistically, they must cave to the dear leader or at least pick battles very carefully.
Every person and institution saying that is what enables fascism.
“As specified in the Smithsonian’s charter, the Chief Justice of the United States and the Vice President of the United States are ex officio members of the Board, meaning that they serve as a duty of their office. The Chief Justice also serves as the Chancellor of the Smithsonian.”
In other words, you’re wondering why Chief Justice Roberts and J.D. Vance let this fly.
“Just let ME retire before the shit hits the fan”
Ok.
When the fascist leader is trying to censor history at the national history museum, that’s the battle to fight.
Either way there’s going to be a new exhibit. The question is, do we want it to be one we are proud of, or ashamed of?
What we learned so far is that they will lose the funding anyway unless there is a way to weaponize it somehow.
Good point. If they’re delaying the inevitable, might as well stand for something.
“On Tyranny”'s first chapter is “Do not obey in advance”. I think more people need to listen to that 2 hour audiobook.
I’m getting really tired of Congress abdicating their power of the purse to the Executive. They talked about that shit like it was the holy grail for decades and then one shit for brains comes along and they decide they don’t care about anything anymore.
republican, and dino congressmen wants in on the grift of what TRUMP is offering, of course they arnt going to bite the hands thats feeds them. they know its probably thier last chance in offince anyways.
damn i did not know that. welp, one more institution to avoid, i guess.
Yeaaaah. I kinda get this one, it isn’t exactly the biggest exhibit there and as we can clearly see, not much fucking came of it. If we still have a Smithsonian in a few years, we can tag on this whole shitshow as it’s own exhibit.
Fuck the Smithsonian. They deserve to go away after this.
I was about to say Harvard… Googled just to make sure. Apparently I missed it a couple of days ago when they bent over
columbia actually
Nope.
I stayed home today and The View seems to be on it.
I feel this so much.
Might as well stop the whole operation then. A museum’s most precious good is its credibility. If visitors can’t trust that the information you present is factual, why should they visit?
Even if part of your funding is at risk, is this worth it? Cut costs, do a fundraiser, forego pay of leadership personnel, if you need to, but without credibility, you’re no longer running a museum but a theme park.
Turning the Smithsonian into the Time Masheen from idiocracy
Thereby literally rewriting history for the Cheeto
Man Americans are knee benders and ting kissers
Yep, totally normal thing to do, nothing to see here folks. There are no Epstein files…
What a shithole country.
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Never thought I’d see the day when the Smithsonian would lose all its credibility. Bootlickers and cowards.
Who controls the past now, controls the future.
Who controls the present now, controls the past.
Not too long in the future:
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
Also from 1984 by George Orwell
That book, along with Animal Farm, should be a mandatory book to read in school.
As of early-2000s, both novels were required reading in my high school central Texas curriculum.
How delicate do you have to be to deny reality so routinely?
Trump-level delicate
Bigly if true.
They should have just rewrote it in a bigly way. “The greatest president. So good he was impeached twice. He won the impeachments and became emperor. What a swell guy.”
