{"id":187274,"date":"2025-10-03T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:25:09","slug":"us-archivist-ousted-after-refusing-to-let-trump-give-eisenhowers-sword-to-king-charles-reports-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187274\/","title":{"rendered":"US archivist ousted after refusing to let Trump give Eisenhower\u2019s sword to King Charles \u2013 reports | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eisenhower Presidential Library\u2019s director has exited his position after advocating against giving a sword from the collection to King Charles as a gift during Donald Trump\u2019s recent state visit<\/a>, according to US media reports on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Todd Arrington left his post on Monday after being told to \u201cresign or be fired\u201d, he told CBS News, which did not specify who had relayed the message to the historian.<\/p>\n

The library and museum \u2013 located in former US president Dwight D Eisenhower\u2019s home town in Abilene, Kansas \u2013 is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara).<\/p>\n

Arrington allegedly resisted a request from the Trump administration<\/a> to give one of Eisenhower\u2019s swords to Charles, which was meant to symbolise the US-UK relationship and highlight the two countries\u2019 collaboration in the second world war.<\/p>\n

Before becoming president in 1953, Eisenhower helped lead allied forces against Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration ultimately gave Charles a replica sword donated by West Point, the army academy where Eisenhower began his military career.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported that Arrington\u2019s ouster may have also been related to discussions over plans to construct a new education centre at the Eisenhower Library.<\/p>\n

Trump and King Charles at the state banquet for the US President and first lady Melania Trump at Windsor Castle in September. Photograph: Yui Mok\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Daily Mail on Thursday<\/a>, Arrington stated that he was trying to get his job back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very sad and upset, and frankly devastated, and I have tried to reach out to higher-ups in the National Archives to basically say, I will do whatever it takes to reverse this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

The resignation of Arrington, who had a decades-long career in the federal government, comes as Trump asserts an unprecedented control over US cultural institutions<\/a> since his return to office in January. He has conducted mass firings of multiple traditionally nonpartisan or bipartisan boards, with his own allies taking control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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