Who runs and funds the Smithsonian and can Trump overhaul it like he is the federal government? Here’s what to know.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian Institution — which has, he contends, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology.” Critics have pushed back, saying the order is an attempt to whitewash American history.

The National Museum of Natural History recently spruced up its iconic African elephant mount, which has greeted visitors since 1959

Current and former members of the Smithsonian’s board of regents condemned the edict, while visitors said the Trump administration was trying to edit U.S. history.

Trump’s new executive order targets what he describes as the spread of a “divisive, race-centered ideology” at museums.

Diana is what’s known as a “fossil preparator,” working in full view of the public inside the oblong, glass-enclosed FossiLab at D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

The president signs a decree to stop a ‘revisionist movement that seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States’

Vice President JD Vance will oversee the removal of “divisive, race-centered ideology” and deny funding to exhibitions that “degrade shared American values”

President Donald Trump announced Thursday his plan to implement changes at the Smithsonian Institution through an executive order that aims to restrict funding for programs promoting "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology,