Five Fronts in Trump's Culture War
The Smithsonian Institution
Trump’s complaint
The president has said the institution, which runs 21 museums and the National Zoo, presents a race-centered and overly negative ideology that promotes “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
Federal Architecture
Trump’s complaint
The president says federal architecture lost its way in the 1960s when buildings abandoned classical style for modernist and Brutalist designs that he views as ugly and unpopular. He also had an issue with the traditional East Wing of the White House, but it was one of space, not design.
The Federal Communications Commission
Trump’s complaint
President Trump has long argued that liberal technology companies and the media have been unfairly silencing conservative viewpoints and promoting the left.
The National Endowment for the Arts/National Endowment for the Humanities
Trump’s complaint
In his first term, Mr. Trump criticized the endowments as wasteful and proposed eliminating them. In his second, he has not issued any direct criticism of either agency. But he installed new leaders who moved to cancel most previously approved grants and redirect their resources to his priorities, including projects celebrating this year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/arts/trump-culture-war-smithsonian-kennedy-center.html?
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He's singlehandedly (well, with his enablers) made us a shithole country.