Trump orders temporary warnings signs be put in front of Smithsonian after report finds ‘extreme political activism’

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President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to put up signs highlighting a report that concluded the country’s leading cultural center put ideological bias over historical facts. 

The 162-page report from the White House’s Domestic Policy Council was released earlier this month, and it wrote that “ideological capture has moved the Museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country.” 

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