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Trump orders "improper ideology" purge at Smithsonian museums

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 28, 2025
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Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox, (late 18th century) Smithsonian Collection

When Nazi officials opened their infamous "Degenerate Art" exhibition in 1937, they labeled modern art as culturally corrupt and ideologically impure. Now, nearly 90 years later, Donald Trump's latest executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institutio…

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