The Smithsonian Institution removed references to President Donald Trump earlier this year from its exhibit on the impeachment of presidents. This small change, reverting the exhibit to its pre-Trump form, highlighted the important fact that a museum can change when or if it wants to.

The removal of Trump from the impeachment exhibit was no doubt an attempt to draw White House scrutiny away from the museum network and its decadeslong embrace of leftist projects, particularly historical revisionism. This seeks to portray the United States as the primary villain in a simplistic and self-hating narrative that casts white Christians as oppressors and ethnic and religious minorities as victims.