Executive Order 14253

Any museum that has any artifact or piece of art or monument that tells the truth about America.

In 2025, there's something from the Trump administration titled the Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History executive order, which is quite the name, as usual, and it triggered an audit of the federal monuments, statues, and the like, and that's what you're talking about.

There's an active struggle now over who gets to tell our story, our history, and the version that's told.

So what's happening? What do you think are the stakes?

You know, we're here tonight at a time when the federal government's calling for a review of, like, eight Smithsonian museums, including the National Museum of the American Indian.

Uh, it's part of an executive order called Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.

Um, and the executive order says that museums are, quote, "Replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology," and that, "The widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame." And so I just wanna talk about, like, patriotism, you, you, you brought up that word, and, and, and how that fits into the way we understand who we are.

I sort of feel like there's two questions there in one.