{"id":118804,"date":"2025-08-29T16:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118804\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:33:10","slug":"trump-met-with-smithsonian-institution-secretary-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118804\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump met with Smithsonian Institution secretary at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n President Donald Trump met with Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III for lunch at the White House on Thursday.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe White House lunch meeting was productive and cordial,\u201d a White House official told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n The meeting, which was first reported by The New York Times<\/a>, comes as Trump has directed his attorneys<\/a> to conduct a review of museums, claiming the Smithsonian is \u201cout of control\u201d and that \u201ceverything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The Trump administration earlier this month it would be conducting an internal review<\/a> of Smithsonian Institution materials and exhibits in an effort to comply with Trump\u2019s directive about what should and shouldn\u2019t be displayed.\n <\/p>\n

\n Lindsey Halligan, who is leading the administration\u2019s review, also attended the White House lunch, the official said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last week, Halligan told Fox News that Smithsonian museums have \u201can overemphasis on slavery,\u201d arguing \u201cthere should be more of an overemphasis on how far we\u2019ve come since slavery.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to the Smithsonian Institution \u2014 the organization that runs the nation\u2019s major public museums \u2014 for comment on the meeting.\n <\/p>\n

\n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump met with Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III for lunch at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-118804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}