"What Trump doesn't know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief librarian he has fired, along with driving out the heads of the National Archives and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as dissolving programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which as a result has paused the acclaimed American Experience documentary series."
"Trump claims he is tearing down the entire federal support for history in order to reveal the true story. In his executive order of 27 March, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, he stated: Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. The improper ideology that needs to be extirpated is a divisive, race-centered ideology."
Donald Trump has targeted federal history infrastructure, firing the Library of Congress chief librarian and driving out leaders at the National Archives and the National Portrait Gallery. He has dissolved National Endowment for the Humanities programs and defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, pausing the American Experience series. An executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History claims a decade-long effort rewrites the nation's history with ideology replacing facts and identifies a divisive, race-centered ideology as improper. A White House memo defends interventions at the Smithsonian and a review panel was appointed including Vice‑President JD Vance and attorney Lindsey Halligan.
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