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Artwork is barely free speech if Trump says so

Editorial Board Published August 22, 2025
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In Donald Trump’s world, nothing says freedom like concentrating on artwork and museums.

Within the wake of current assaults on the Smithsonian’s option to characteristic extra than simply straight, white artists, the White Home has created an in depth listing of artists it deems too woke. 

“This is ‘art’ from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery commemorating the act of illegally crossing the ‘exclusionary’ border,” a White Home X account wrote alongside a portray by Rigoberto A. Gonzalez. 

“This is what President Trump means when he says the Smithsonian is ‘OUT OF CONTROL.’”

The portray in query encompasses a life like depiction of a household of 4 on the southern border wall as a mom, holding a child in her arms, scales a ladder.  

However the White Home didn’t cease there. 


On this June 25, 2018 picture, guests sit close to a print by Mexican-American, Los Angeles-based artist Ken Gonzales-Day, who was exhibiting his 2006 collection “Erased Lynchings” on the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Portrait Gallery in Washington, which exhibits a collection of images of lynchings during which the sufferer has been digitally faraway from the picture.

Of their try and drive house the right-wing speaking level of how loopy and woke the Smithsonian actually is, officers created a complete webpage itemizing out every bit of artwork featured on the museum at one time or one other that crossed some imaginary line. 

The listing, it seems, solely consists of artists who depict folks of coloration or queer people. And predictably, the administration made it a degree to bash artists who featured immigrants as effectively. 

“A exhibit [sic] at the American History Museum depicts migrants watching Independence Day fireworks ‘through an opening in the U.S.-Mexico border wall’ and says America’s founders ‘feared non-White immigration,’” the White Home wrote. 

It appears as if the administration takes problem with the assertion that the founders painted non-white immigrants in a adverse gentle. Then once more, the Trump regime labeled Venezuelan immigrants with no felony document as harmful gang members earlier than throwing them right into a overseas jail that’s infamous for torturing inmates.

The paintings’s description additionally factors out how Latin American immigrants are sometimes labeled as “invaders.” And with an administration and president insistent on calling them “illegal aliens” whereas making sweeping generalizations that immigrants coming from the southern border are murderers and rapists, the shoe positive does appear to suit.

Associated | How is the White Home erasing historical past this week?

However it’s not simply messaging on immigrants and the LGBTQ+ neighborhood that MAGA is fuming over. 

Trump’s minions additionally pushed to ensure that the Smithsonian wiped any point out of the president’s two impeachments from an exhibit. Public outcry and important media protection resulted within the exhibit being restored—however with new, softer language describing Trump’s transgressions.

If that’s not outrageous sufficient, Trump has additionally instructed the museum to downplay slavery’s position in American historical past. 

However flip again the clock just some years to Trump’s first time period as president, and bear in mind how his administration was pointing fingers on the left for collaborating in censorship and “cancel” tradition.

As all the time, the projection is powerful with Trump and firm. 

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