{"id":161432,"date":"2025-08-21T07:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-fights-woke-smithsonian-after-claims-it-is-too-focused-on-slavery-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:33:05","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-fights-woke-smithsonian-after-claims-it-is-too-focused-on-slavery-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-fights-woke-smithsonian-after-claims-it-is-too-focused-on-slavery-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president fights \u2018woke\u2019 Smithsonian after claims it is too focused on \u2018slavery\u2019 – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid review of institution, a White House document argues Smithsonian has overly negative portrayal of American history. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 20 August
After Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday lashed out at the Smithsonian Institution \u2013 a premier museum, education and research complex for US history and culture \u2013 over what he called an excessive focus on \u201chow bad Slavery was\u201d, the Guardian has revealed the shape his administration\u2019s targeting of seven flagship museums will take.
Trump suggested he would pressure the institution to accept his demands, just like he did with colleges and universities by threatening to cut federal funding. The White House said last week it would lead an internal review of some Smithsonian museums after Trump earlier this year accused it of spreading \u201canti-American ideology\u201d.
Here is the key Trump administration<\/a> news of the day:
Amid the Trump<\/a> administration\u2019s heavy-handed review of Smithsonian museums, the Guardian has seen a document compiled by the White House that argues the widely visited cultural institutions have overly negative portrayals of US history, from a Benjamin Franklin exhibit that links his scientific achievements to his ownership of enslaved people to a film about George Floyd<\/a>\u2019s murder that it says mischaracterizes the police.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump called on a Federal Reserve<\/a> governor to immediately resign, renewing his extraordinary attack on the central bank\u2019s independence as officials mull next steps on interest rates. The president has repeatedly broken with precedent<\/a> in recent months to demand the Fed cut rates and urged its chair, Jerome Powell, to quit after disregarding such calls.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives has approved a redrawn congressional map requested by Donald Trump and fiercely opposed by Democrats<\/a>, who led a weeks-long protest to stall the effort that kicked off a redistricting arms race between red and blue states.
With the House\u2019s approval, the measure next goes to the state Senate, where it is expected to pass, possibly as soon as Thursday.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A federal judge in New York who presided over the sex-trafficking case against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> has rejected the government\u2019s request to unseal grand jury transcripts.
Judge Richard Berman\u2019s ruling in Manhattan on Wednesday came after the judge presiding over the case against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> also turned down the government\u2019s request.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
More than 750 current and former federal health employees on Wednesday accused the health and human services (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, of fuelling harassment and violence directed at government healthcare staff.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A military vehicle crashed into a car in Washington DC<\/a> on Wednesday morning, an incident that comes as more than six Republican-led states have all pledged to send more national guard troops to the capital.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
JD Vance was booed and heckled with chants of \u201cFree DC!\u201d during a photo op<\/strong> with national guard troops at Union Station in Washington<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.
A Yosemite national park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan<\/strong>, while some park visitors could face prosecution under protest restrictions that have been tightened<\/a> under Donald Trump.
Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments<\/strong> in every classroom, a judge said<\/a> in a temporary ruling against the state\u2019s new requirement.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 19 August 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Amid review of institution, a White House document argues Smithsonian has overly negative portrayal of American history. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 20 AugustAfter Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the Smithsonian Institution \u2013 a premier museum, education and research complex for US history and culture \u2013 over what he called an excessive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}