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(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered that "improper, divisive or anti-American ideology" be removed from the Smithsonian Institution, the vast museum and research complex that is a premier exhibition space for U.S. history and culture.

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers including the Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is coming under criticism from President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

The president's order, which claims to restore “truth and sanity to American history,” could attempt to radically revise the country's history for political gain.

In a new executive order, Trump directed JD Vance to remove “improper ideology” from various museums, education centers—and the zoo. “Vance is now going to patrol to make sure the zoos are sufficiently anti-woke,

Vance, a Smithsonian Board of Regents member, will oversee efforts to remove “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the institution.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to restore "truth and sanity to American history" by directing the Smithsonian to eliminate "divisive" and "anti-American ideology" from its museums.

Trump says there’s been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.