Trump asks the justice to investigate the “Woke” museums – Liberation

After universities and the army, it is the turn of the American museums to be in the viewfinder of the Trump administration. Similarly, Continuing his offensive against educational. However, cultural institutions, the President of the United States announced Tuesday, August 19, having asked the justice to investigate the country in museums that he accuses of being «woke»in particular with regard to the restitution of the history of slavery.

“Washington museums. Meanwhile, but also throughout the country, are essentially the last remains of Wokisme»denounced Donald Trump on his Truth Social network. “I gave instruction to my prosecutors to review [la politique des] museums. start exactly the same process followed with Universitieswhere immense advances have been made ”added the conservative billionaire. “This country cannot be woke because wokism is finished”he proclaimed.

The White House had announced last week in a letter to the institution which manages around twenty public museums in Washington. the Smithsonian Institution, that the government was going to carry out an in -depth exam to ensure their “alignment” with the vision of the history of the United States advocated by Donald Trump, based on “Truth and reason”.

“Smithsonian is out of control”still thundered Donald Trump. deploring that the museums of the federal capital present according to him an image “Horrible of our country, [notamment] On the misdeeds of slavery […] and nothing about its success and its brilliance ”. The American president signed a decree last March to regain control of the content of the Smithsonian museums. which he had already accused of “Historical revisionism” and of“Ideological indoctrination” Racial, especially under his predecessors and political enemies Barack Obama (2009-2017) and Joe Biden trump asks justice investigate “woke” (2021-2025).

The American government justified these measures against museums – which also affect the Washington cultural center. the Kennedy Center – by the festivities of the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States in 2026, on the occasion it envisages in particular the organization of an MMA gala in the gardens of the White House.

Donald Trump has been committed for seven months in a rapid recovery of cultural. educational institutions on which he has an influence, from museums to universities, in order to expurge them from what he considers to be progressive ideas in favor of minorities.

The English terms “woke” and “wokism” are borrowed from African-American struggles, which mean “to be awake” to injustices. They have been recovered. diverted in a pejorative way by leaders and conservative movements in Europe and the United States, trump asks justice investigate “woke” to denounce what they deem to be excesses of militancy in matters of struggle for minorities and against social and climatic injustices.