{"id":65371,"date":"2026-09-11T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65371"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:47:12","slug":"a-change-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65371","title":{"rendered":"A Change In Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

A historical museum should not reflect current cultural trends, it should reflect history,\u00a0 but unfortunately the Smithsonian in recent years seems to have gone woke. An article posted at the Daily Signal<\/a> on Tuesday reports that the current head of the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III, will be stepping down before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III, is stepping down, amid continued criticism from the White House about the direction of the Smithsonian museums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no place like the Smithsonian\u2014it has been one of the great loves of my life, and I am extraordinarily proud of what we have accomplished together,\u201d Bunch said in a statement. \u201cI leave with pride and sadness, gratitude and joy, and with enormous confidence in the people who will carry this remarkable institution forward.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump administration officials have raised concerns about the Smithsonian museums in recent weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A July White House report charged that the National Museum of American History had become \u201csubject to institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology that is fundamentally opposed to telling the noble, honest story of the great country we know and love.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bunch criticized the report, calling it \u201cnot a fair characterization of the work\u201d in a memo addressed to Smithsonian staffers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

In August, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley sent a letter saying federal agencies could not \u201ccontinue to support the Smithsonian under current leadership.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…They also suggested that the institution may be involved in \u201csignificant violations of federal antidiscrimination law.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, the administration has recently uncovered evidence that the Smithsonian leadership\u2019s institutional culture may have resulted in significant violations of Federal antidiscrimination law, including creating a hostile work environment and engaging in practices that classify individuals and allocate opportunities, funding and other benefits on the basis of race, ethnicity and other protected characteristics.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can only hope that the next Secretary of the Smithsonian will not treat the Institution as a battleground for his culture wars,\u201d Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal. \u201cInstead, let\u2019s hope that he or she takes seriously the mission of the national museum complex that he or she leads, that is to say to preserve and transmit America\u2019s history, culture and art\u2014in a word, heritage\u2014to future generations.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last time I visited the Smithsonian was more than 25 years ago. At that time, it was amazing and apolitical. Hopefully we can go back to amazing and apolitical soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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