What to Know About Trump’s Order on Museums, Monuments

Trump cited a ‘concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history’ as motivation for the action.

A statue of Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president, in Lafayette Park across from the White House on Oct. 30, 2008. Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to reintroduce a more traditional view of history throughout museums and national institutions.

Titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” the March 27 order cites a “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history” as motivation for “revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing the spread of divisive ideology.”