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Trump’s demand the Smithsonian erase historical past is equal elements terrifying and pathetic

Editorial Board Published August 2, 2025
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In the event you’re planning a visit to the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of American Historical past, be sure to take a look at “The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden,” which can educate you about all of the presidents who had been impeached or resigned in lieu of impeachment. So there’s Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Invoice Clinton, and … huh, that’s it. 

Sure, for those who search for data on President Donald Trump’s two first-term impeachments, you gained’t discover it on this exhibit. The Smithsonian eliminated them in July.

The famend museum instructed NPR it might put them again someday. Someday sooner or later. It wouldn’t share a timeline.


It occurred. Twice.

Till that day, if it ever comes, the Smithsonian is part of Trump’s rewriting of historical past, one which treats his presidency like an unvarnished success, a testomony to the greatness of the person himself.

Although the administration very possible pressured this elimination, the Smithsonian spokesperson remains to be obliged to fake that is only a regular factor, no huge deal, simply common museum stuff the place it’s important to roll again historical past 18 years, you recognize? 

“Because the other topics in this section had not been updated since 2008, the decision was made to restore the Impeachment case back to its 2008 appearance,” the museum mentioned in an announcement.

You see, they will’t embody Trump’s impeachments as a result of it’s simply a lot work to replace issues, per the administration’s assertion to NPR: “A large permanent gallery like The American Presidency that opened in 2000, requires [a] significant amount of time and funding to update and renew. A future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments.” 

That rationalization is likely to be rather less transparently bullshit if Trump’s twin impeachments hadn’t been included within the exhibit since September 2021. 

In the event you ask the White Home, they are going to clarify to you that that is actually all about returning America to its former glory and, after all, eradicating forbidden range. Per White Home spokesperson Davis Ingle, for too lengthy, the Smithsonian “highlighted divisive DEI exhibits which are out of touch with mainstream America,” and that the White Home is “fully supportive of updating displays to highlight American greatness.” 

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It’s not simply that the administration desires to take away detrimental historical past about Trump, although that may be a driving drive. It’s additionally about wanting the Republican Occasion, the federal authorities, and everybody else to show fixed fealty to Trump. That’s why you see GOP proposals to place him on the $100 invoice and on Mount Rushmore, to rename elements of the Kennedy Heart after him and his spouse, and to rename the Washington subway system the “Trump Train.”

But it surely additionally extends past Trump. They wish to rewrite American historical past extra broadly in order that it panders to these like Trump and his ilk: white, straight, cis, conservative, wealthy. Vice President JD Vance has been empowered to purge museums of something that doesn’t align with Trump’s view of American historical past as an unbroken success story. Trump’s workforce has demanded that museums and the nationwide parks take away something that’s supposedly divisive, which broadly interprets to issues that make white folks unhappy. 

It used to really feel like saying Trump needed to memory-hole the historical past he doesn’t like was a little bit of a stretch. Lately, although, if something, it might be an understatement.

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