Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order

Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.

Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order
People march outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to mark Juneteenth on June 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)