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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum

www.washingtonpost.com /entertainment/2025/07/31/trump-impeachment-smithsonian/

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. A person familiar with the exhibit plans, who was not authorized to discuss them publicly, said the change came about as part of a content review that the Smithsonian agreed to undertake following pressure from the White House to remove an art museum director.
A temporary label including content about Trump’s impeachments had been on display since September 2021 at the Washington museum, a Smithsonian spokesperson told The Washington Post, adding that it was intended to be a short-term addition to address current events. Now, the exhibit notes that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal.”

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oh my fucking god. this is ridiculous. SERIOUSLY? is there going to be a SINGLE institution in this country willing to stand up against fascism????????
- People wonder how Germany was taken over by the Nazis. This is how.
  This is the Fascist States of America and will be until someone stands up. "Home of the Brave" huh.
  
  Land of the fee and home of the slave.
  
  Home of the depraved.
- Roughly 62% of its annual budget comes from federal. Realistically, they must cave to the dear leader or at least pick battles very carefully.
  
  Every person and institution saying that is what enables fascism.
  
  Ok.
  When the fascist leader is trying to censor history at the national history museum, that's the battle to fight.
  
  What we learned so far is that they will lose the funding anyway unless there is a way to weaponize it somehow.
  
  "On Tyranny"'s first chapter is "Do not obey in advance". I think more people need to listen to that 2 hour audiobook.
  
  I'm getting really tired of Congress abdicating their power of the purse to the Executive. They talked about that shit like it was the holy grail for decades and then one shit for brains comes along and they decide they don't care about anything anymore.
  
  damn i did not know that. welp, one more institution to avoid, i guess.
  
  Yeaaaah. I kinda get this one, it isn't exactly the biggest exhibit there and as we can clearly see, not much fucking came of it. If we still have a Smithsonian in a few years, we can tag on this whole shitshow as it's own exhibit.
- I was about to say Harvard... Googled just to make sure. Apparently I missed it a couple of days ago when they bent over
  
  columbia actually
- Nope.
- I stayed home today and The View seems to be on it.
- I feel this so much.
Jesus fucking Christ, what is going on lately with people just buckling under the slightest amount of pressure from Trump? Fight back you goddamn pussies.
- Seriously it's so pathetic. People will just bend over and take it.
  The world needs more asshole leftists who don't take shit from anyone. Far too many dickheads are on the wrong side of the political spectrum.
Yep, totally normal thing to do, nothing to see here folks. There are no Epstein files....
Who controls the past now, controls the future.
Who controls the present now, controls the past.
- Not too long in the future:
  The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
  Also from 1984 by George Orwell
  
  That book, along with Animal Farm, should be a mandatory book to read in school.
Might as well stop the whole operation then. A museum's most precious good is its credibility. If visitors can't trust that the information you present is factual, why should they visit?
Even if part of your funding is at risk, is this worth it? Cut costs, do a fundraiser, forego pay of leadership personnel, if you need to, but without credibility, you're no longer running a museum but a theme park.
How delicate do you have to be to deny reality so routinely?
- Trump-level delicate
  
  Bigly if true.
Sure would be funny if Smithsonian Patrons kept changing it back.
"Congress has only Impeached a President four times, 1/2 of them against the same President.'
- Time to get that Streisand effect rolling!
What a shithole country.
- Banana republic
  A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.
Disgraceful.
You are a museum, a place to see history as it actually was. Caving to a dick-tator... Just wow...
Fuck if I'll ever go to the Smithsonian after this. The Pedo is just going to pull your funding anyways so wtf???
The fucking fragility. Pathetic.
Thereby literally rewriting history for the Cheeto
Man Americans are knee benders and ting kissers
They should have just rewrote it in a bigly way. “The greatest president. So good he was impeached twice. He won the impeachments and became emperor. What a swell guy.”
Never thought I'd see the day when the Smithsonian would lose all its credibility. Bootlickers and cowards.
Who were the snowflakes again?
Should have just closed the exhibit “due to funding”
- OUR APOLOGIES, THE EXHIBIT ON IMPEACHMENT HAS BEEN CLOSED DUE TO SOMEONE BEING A WHINY-ASS LITTLE removed
It's going to be fun rewriting history after this stupid bastard dies off. That day can't come soon enough.
- It won't just be him. It'll be everyone that was surrounding him or placed by this administration. The cancer runs deep and has metastasized.
- He might have created the movement, but the support of it didn't magically appear. The truth is that this rhetoric and mindset never went away. Trump is an idiot that rallied them, imagine an intelligent person instead after him... I hope the next generations don't follow what the dying out ones do
I get it... put it back as soon as he's gone. Hopefully it'll be 3 or more by then, with a final successful one
- Bro. He’s a child rapist. They’re not gonna impeach him. They’re not gonna remove him. He’s a child rapist and they’d all gladly lick his asshole live on the House floor.
  
  the people funding trump, is also funding the gop, and DINOS.
- Fascism is there stay in America for decades to come.
  
  Yeah... it sucks, and makes me want to scream
- Put it back as soon as he's gone?
  My dude. America has yet to put a single fucking thing back after a Republican takes it.
  Abortions rights. Voting rights. Workers rights. Right to Healthcare. Right to education. Right to transparent government funding (Citizens United) Right to privacy (Patriot Act) Right to fair information. Right to have our taxes go towards social benefits rather than Reaganomics.
  If you're waiting for anything to change back, no matter how small, it's not.
- You get what?
Conversations about impeachment just aren't complete without the man who was impeached the best and the most!
I feel like this has less to do with changing history and more to do with Trump's fragile ego. I'm not saying that they aren't trying to rewrite history and that is absolutely disgusting, just that this one doesn't really make any sense when you really take a step back and think about it. If anything an actual strong person would wear it as a badge of honor to prove how right he is that the "deep state" is still trying to get him, which Trump has done in the past. I say this is an indicator that he's in panic mode trying to fix his image right now which is kinda pathetic.
- Slippery slope.
They’d better put that orange cunt back in the exhibit after he fucks off.
Republicans are filthy traitor swine and it is your duty to do what is in your power to make them suffer.
People are surprised to find out that this is the reality under capitalism. When everything is tied to pandering to the upper class, you working class suckers always get the short end of the stick. Even when it comes to "liberal institutions". If their profits are gone, they are gone. Their existence is intrinsically tied to pandering to the upper class. This is why capitalism is intrinsically fascistic.
Turning the Smithsonian into the Time Masheen from idiocracy

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