White House attacks Smithsonian for telling 'radical' LGBTQ+ stories at American history museumhttps://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-objects-smithsonian-lgbtq-stories 🔗Jacob Ogles (9 July 2026)
A new White House report attacks the Smithsonian Institution's management of the National Museum of American History. Among its complaints are the inclusion of drag queens, LGBTQ+ icons, and magazines with nude women on the cover.
The Domestic Policy Council report, titled "Saving America's Story," claims the museum has been "captured" by an "intellectual framework rooted in Marxism that seeks to radically transform society by revealing and challenging alleged 'overlapping systems of oppression.'"
It takes particular issue with much of the pop culture featured, including costumes from the Broadway musical Hamilton, and claims a video including drag queens pushes sexually suggestive material in front of children. The report specifically calls out a cover of the 1990s feminist zine "Girl Germs" for depicting two nude women embracing.
But above all, the report attacks the institution for telling stories about marginalized communities, arguing those exhibits come at the expense of inspiring young people with more history involving straight white men.
