Overview

• Trump declared “woke is broke” on Truth Social and said he instructed his lawyers to begin the same enforcement process used against colleges and universities.
• The White House requested draft concepts, exhibition plans, catalogs and program materials from the Smithsonian for review of historical depictions.
• A March executive order directed Smithsonian museums to serve as symbols of inspiration and American greatness and to remove what it called inappropriate ideologies.
• Targets identified in reporting include the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of African American History and Cultured the NatiNational Museum of the American Indian.
• The Smithsonian, largely funded by Congress but institutionally independent, had not issued a public response as civil-rights groups warn of politicization and constraints on curatorial independence.