Published on the White House website as an article called "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian," the list included some shows that the President had already decried, in

Donald Trump's campaign against the Smithsonian Institution was already indefensible. With his new false and weird claims, it's suddenly even worse.

The effort is focused on bringing the organization in line with President Trump's cultural directives ahead of the country's 250th anniversary celebrations.

Scholars are pushing back against the Trump administration’s plan to conduct a "comprehensive internal review" of the Smithsonian, viewing it as political interference.

As a political matter, Donald Trump and his team have made this a difficult year for the Smithsonian. It’s poised to get much worse.

Rewrite history, restrict the vote, silence dissent, consolidate power. It is the playbook of strongmen the world over.

Visitors photographed a portrait of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, painted by the artist Robert McCurdy, near a portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, painted by the artist Amy Sherald, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. | Patrick Semansky/AP

The Trump administration is giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”

Why are museums filled with artifacts from the past and stories about the past? Why don’t museums include things from the future? These are normal questions that everyone has about museums, not just me,

Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition.