"The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has removed a wall text accompanying a portrait of US president Donald Trump that mentioned he was impeached twice during his first term. The text had accompanied his portrait in the museum's popular permanent exhibition America's Presidents, a formal portrait by The Washington Post photographer Matt McClain from 2017 that showed Trump with his trademark bright-red tie and framed in shadow."
"According to The New York Times, the sentence about Trump's impeachment was one of the grievances listed in a document prepared by the White House last spring when the president attempted to fire Kim Sajet, the NPG's director, accusing her of bias and being a "highly partisan person'. Though Smithsonian leadership responded at the time that personnel matters were beyond the executive branch's purview and would be handled internally, Sajet ultimately resigned two weeks later."
The National Portrait Gallery removed a wall label that mentioned Donald Trump's two impeachments from his portrait display. The portrait is a 2017 formal photograph by Washington Post photographer Matt McClain shown in the America's Presidents exhibition. The removed label listed first-term achievements including appointing a record number of federal judges, three Supreme Court justices, promoting Covid-19 vaccine development, and brokering diplomatic agreements between Israel and several Arab nations. The label noted impeachment twice for abuse of power and incitement of insurrection and acquittals by the Senate. The impeachment sentence appeared in a White House document during an effort to remove director Kim Sajet; Sajet resigned two weeks later, and Elliot Gruber is acting director. The McClain photograph was replaced with a black-and-white portrait by White House photographer Daniel Torok.
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