Critics See Trump’s Attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as Effort to Sanitize Racism in U.S. History

President Trump’s executive order criticizes the Smithsonian Institution, particularly the National Museum of African American History and Culture, for allegedly distorting American history by focusing excessively on race and racism. Historians and civil rights advocates view this as an attempt to minimize the roles of slavery and racial violence in U.S. history.