{"id":19639,"date":"2025-09-29T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=19639"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:27:02","slug":"smithsonian-has-overemphasis-on-slavery-says-trump-aide-leading-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/smithsonian-has-overemphasis-on-slavery-says-trump-aide-leading-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Has &#8216;Overemphasis On Slavery,&#8217; Says Trump Aide Leading Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">The Trump administration attorney leading the White House review of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-administration-seizes-editorial-power-over-smithsonian-museum-exhibits_n_689b9e8ce4b09184403f25d5\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s programming<\/a>&nbsp;said the museum has an&nbsp;\u201coveremphasis on slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president, spoke to Fox News on Wednesday after the president&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-attacks-smithsonian-slavery-bad_n_68a4deaae4b0d42cc1e38440\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blasted the Smithsonian<\/a>&nbsp;on Truth Social for being \u201cOUT OF CONTROL\u201d for discussing \u201chow horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Halligan appeared to go further than the president when asked by host John Roberts about museums reflecting America\u2019s \u201ccheckered past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe fact our country was involved in slavery is awful. No one thinks otherwise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Halligan: What I saw going through the museum personally was an overemphasis on slavery, and I think there should be an overemphasis on how far we\u2019ve come&#8230; We should be able to take our kids, our students through the Smithsonian and be proud when we leave\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FWKpHtpgb\">pic.twitter.com\/6FWKpHtpgb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1958232384475972043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBut what I saw when I was going through the museum, personally, was an overemphasis on slavery, and I think there should be more of an overemphasis on how far we\u2019ve come since slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe should be able to take our kids, our students, through the Smithsonian and feel proud when we leave,\u201d Halligan continued. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of history to our country \u2014 both positive and negative \u2014 but we need to keep moving forward. We can\u2019t just keep focusing on the negative. All it does is divide us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Trump administration has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a>&nbsp;the Smithsonian of promoting \u201cimproper ideology,\u201d and in August said it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-administration-seizes-editorial-power-over-smithsonian-museum-exhibits_n_689b9e8ce4b09184403f25d5\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">carrying out a review<\/a>&nbsp;of museum exhibits, curatorial materials and other operations in advance of the country\u2019s 250th anniversary next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The vast institution includes 21 museums, 21 libraries and a zoo.&nbsp;The American history museum, natural history museum, African American history museum and American Indian museum are all affected by the review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Trump has indicated he is extending the audit to all U.S. museums after lashing out at them for being \u201cthe last remaining segment of \u2018WOKE.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In an interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/power\/2025\/04\/21\/lindsey-halligan-smithsonian-executive-order\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;in April, Halligan took credit for Trump issuing an executive order, titled \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u201d after raising concerns about the Smithsonian\u2019s content with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI talked to the president about it, and suggested an executive order, and he gave me his blessing, and here we are,\u201d said Halligan, who started working for Trump\u2019s legal team in 2022 and moved to D.C. just before the inauguration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration attorney leading the White House review of&nbsp;the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s programming&nbsp;said the museum has an&nbsp;\u201coveremphasis on slavery.\u201d Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to the president, spoke to Fox News on Wednesday after the president&nbsp;blasted the Smithsonian&nbsp;on Truth Social for being \u201cOUT OF CONTROL\u201d for discussing \u201chow horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lindsey-Halligan.jpeg?fit=623%2C407&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19641,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions\/19641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}