Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Smithonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smithonian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p><p>"'This is unabashed fascism,' wrote the journalist Lauren Wolfe on X on Thursday. Amy Rutenberg, a history professor at Iowa State University, wrote: 'Last week, while visiting several Smithsonian museums, I kept wondering how long it would take for this administration to direct exhibits to be pulled. Not long, it turns out.'</p><p>Another observer, journalist and founding editor of the outlet SpyTalk Jeff Stein,remarked that 'Trump goes full-on Soviet with intent to scrub Smithsonian museums etc. of 'improper ideology.'</p><p>The move highlights Trump's desire to reshape not only American politics, but cultural institutions too.</p><p>The order, which included an accompanying fact sheet, also directs U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to reinstate monuments, memorials, statues, and other properties that have been taken down or altered since the beginning of 2020 to 'perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-smithsonian-executive-order" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/trump-sm</span><span class="invisible">ithsonian-executive-order</span></a></p>