Museums and parks must remove some items related to race and gender: Executive order

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump signed an executive order behind closed doors on Thursday directing federal agencies and the Smithsonian to eliminate what the order calls "divisive" and "anti-American" content from museums and national parks, sources familiar with the order told ABC News.

The order -- called "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" -- directed the vice president and the secretary of Interior to restore federal parks, monuments, memorials and statues "that have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history or improperly minimize or disparage certain historical figures or events."

The order also directed Vice President JD Vance, who is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to work to eliminate what it claims are improper, divisive or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian -- an institution consisting of 21 museums and 14 education and research centers -- as well as the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

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Examples given by the order include an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum called "The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture," which the order claimed "promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct" and exhibits at the National Museum of African American History and Culture that the order said "proclaimed that 'hard work,' 'individualism,' and 'the nuclear family' are aspects of 'White culture.'"

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