Imagine for a moment the Cherokee Nation Museum in Tahlequah telling the Trail of Tears story without mentioning President Andrew Jackson’s 1838 Indian removal policy.

Unfortunately, President Donald Trump’s executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” signed in March 2025, appears to mandate this type of revisionist history.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he identifies strongly with Andrew Jackson. During a 2017 visit to Jackson’s plantation, Trump called himself a “big fan,” and remarked that Jackson was “inspirational.”

President Trump’s executive order outlines a broad cultural agenda targeting museums and historical institutions. In this document he directs museums to remove “divisive or ideologically driven language” and replace it with “unifying, histori

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