It is the overarching goals that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, expresses in a presidential order regarding the support to the Smithsonian Institute, which manages around 20 museums and several research centers in the state sector.
Trump claims that an "orchestrated and comprehensive" process aimed at rewriting American history by replacing "objective facts" with a "distorted narrative" based on ideological grounds has been staged over the past decade.
The task of driving the whole process falls on Trump's close associate JD Vance's desk, since the Vice President, according to the statutes, sits on the board of the institute.
The order is the latest in a series of measures by the new administration against key social institutions. Recently, Trump saw to it that he appointed himself as the chairman of the John F Kennedy Center, a prestigious institution for performing arts. They have also forced Columbia University in New York to agree to a long list of demands for changes in order not to lose state funding.
