As President Donald Trump and his compliant Republican partners take more and more control of America—the economy, law enforcement, education, foreign policy, voting, even libraries—museums are inevitably going to drift into the intersection of Trump’s crosshairs.

Of course. Museums are an obvious target. By memorializing what we wish to preserve, to remember and to forget, museums create a narrative about who we are. That sort of power is attractive to a man such as Trump.

Thus, in March, Trump issued Executive Order 14253 (“Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”), which objects to “a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

The order puts Vice President JD Vance

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