Trump orders a review of the museums of the Smithsonian after having called them “ awakened ”

President Donald Trump intensified his battle for American culture with the Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday, commanding a broad examination of the country’s main museums after having exploded them on social truth as “the last remaining segment of WOKE”. The move was also formalized in a White House letter Released in a letter on August 12 to secretary Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch.

Trump’s position accused the Smithsonian as well as other museums nationally of having pushed stories that disparage the United States rather than celebrating its achievements.

“Washington museums, but everywhere in the country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of” Woke “” “” Trump wrote. “The Smithsonian is out of control … Nothing on success, nothing about the brightness, nothing about the future.”

He added: “This country cannot be awakened, because the awakening is mowed. We have the” hottest “country in the world, and we want people to talk about it, including in our museums.”

American history will not be displayed “in an awake” in Smithsonian, said Trump

President Donald Trump castigated the Smithsonian on Truth Social Tuesday for being “out of control” and “awake”. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, inc)

The letter asks the Smithsonian leaders to provide exposure plans, internal directives and programming documents in America 250 for examination.

“While we are preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the foundation of our nation, it is more important than ever than our national museums reflect the unity, the progress and the sustainable values that define American history,” said the letter. “This initiative aims to align with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, eliminate division or supporters and restore confidence in our common cultural institutions.”

According to administration officials, the review will focus on content, conservation processes, exhibition planning, the use of the collection and global narrative standards.

The initial phase will target the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Museum of American Indians, the National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum and Garden sculpture.

Trump’s White House calls Smithsonian for having grown `unilateral and unilateral political stories ”

The Balayage Review includes eight museums, most of which are under the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

Tuesday’s announcement follows criticism earlier from the White House of specific Smithsonian exhibitions. On July 5, Fox News Digital reported that the officials had distinguished the Nation of entertainment Exhibition at the National Museum of American History for examination.

At the time, the special assistant of the White House, Lindsey Halligan, told Fox News Digital: “American taxpayers should not finance institutions undergoing our country or promote unilateral and divisive political accounts. The institution of the Smithsonian should present the story in an exact, balanced way and in accordance with the values that make the United States of America.”

Among the panels isolated by the White House, there was a circus poster of the 1920s described as reflecting “the colonial impulse to claim domination over the world”. Another display reinterpreted the Lone Ranger, comparing the character’s relationship with Tonto to American world domination. A third panel suggested that the original design of Mickey Mouse in Willie steam boat DREW on the traditions of the Blackface Ménestrels.

White House Reviewing All Smithsonian Museum, Exposing content before America 250 Celebration in 2026

A Smithsonian exhibition sign from the National Museum of American History describes the performance of the 1920s circus as expressing “colonial impulse to claim domination over the world”. (Fox News Digital)

Despite net rhetoric, the letter said that the White House considers examination as a constructive process.

“Our objective is not to interfere with the daily operations of conservatives or staff, but rather to support a broader vision of excellence which highlights historically exact, edifying and inclusive representations of the American inheritance,” wrote officials.

The calendar obliges museums to submit documents requested within 30 days, to plan staff interviews within 75 days and to start implementing content corrections within 120 days. The corrections, according to the letter, should replace “a language divided or designed by ideology with unifying, historically precise and constructive descriptions”.

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The managers of the White House closed the letter by presenting the initiative as an effort to collaborate with the Smithsonian staff. “We consider this process as a collaborative and prospective opportunity, that which allows the museum staff to adopt a revitalized conservation vision rooted in the strength, the extent and the achievements of American history,” said the letter.

“By focusing on Americanism – the people, the principles and the progress that define our nation – we can work together to renew the role of the Smithsonian as the first global museum institution.”

The White House and the Smithsonian did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.