by Sydney Carruth | Jul 25, 2026 | culture, Donald Trump, News, White House
If President Donald Trump gets his way, the first thing visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be greeted with are signs warning them that because of “inaccurate information presented in the Museum” they should seek “accurate information” elsewhere.
The president on Friday ordered the installation of temporary “warning” signs on the museum’s sidewalks, marking a major escalation in his campaign to pressure the Smithsonian Institution to rewrite American history to better align with his administration’s ideology.
The executive order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and several other Cabinet officials to utilize “all available authorities to encourage” the Smithsonian Institution to “correct the issues found” in a scathing White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of “extreme political activism” and claimed it “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”
The sidewalks and walkways outside of the popular museum, which welcomes just shy of two million visitors annually, are federal property controlled by the National Park Service. The signs would “notify visitors that the Museum exhibits should be renovated consistent” with the findings of the July 4 report. They would also “direct visitors to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America’s history.”
Trump also accused the museum of failing to “to appropriately honor the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence during this 250th anniversary year of the founding of our country,” and instructed Burgum to install “temporary exhibits” on Smithsonian walkways to correct “inaccurate information presented in the Museum.”
“The Report demonstrates that the Smithsonian leadership
by Chip Gibbons | Jul 24, 2026 | Cold War, counterterrorism, Criminalization, cuba, Donald Trump, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Marco Rubio, McCarthyism, News Analysis, NSPM-7, Stephen Miller, Surveillance, Trump Administration, War On Terror
The Trump administration’s drive to turn the machinery of counterterrorism against left-wing movements worldwide kicked into a higher gear this month surrounding its convening of an international “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism.” On July 16, 2026, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stood before representatives of over 60 nations assembled for the global summit…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 24, 2026 | Department of Defense, Donald Trump, Iran, News, Pentagon
The Trump administration quietly revised the U.S. troop death count in the Iran war from 18 to 14 this week, seemingly removing the deaths of the four troops killed this past weekend in Iranian strikes even as the administration faces accusations of cover-ups with regard to American casualties of the war. The New York Times reported that, on Wednesday, the Pentagon website that logs troop…
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by Chris Walker | Jul 24, 2026 | Donald Trump, Federal Emergency Management Agency, News, Trump election fraud claims, Voting Reform
More than two dozen states have filed a joint lawsuit seeking to prevent the Trump administration from limiting disaster relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) if they do not comply with the president’s demands on election systems changes. Twenty-five states plus Washington, D.C. filed the suit in federal court in Rhode Island. The suit argues that rules imposed by…
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by Jen Psaki | Jul 24, 2026 | Donald Trump, The Briefing with Jen Psaki, White House, World
This is an adapted excerpt from the July 22 episode of “The Briefing with Jen Psaki.”
Have you ever been in one of those situations where a friend starts to embarrass themselves — maybe they had a little too much to drink, maybe they said something they shouldn’t have, or maybe they just seem to be having a hard time keeping it together — and you have to gently cajole them into taking a break?
We’ve all been there at some point. And right now, that is exactly what it must feel like for MAGA Republicans trying to deal with President Donald Trump and the war with Iran he started.
A new Politico poll out Wednesday found that the number of self-identified MAGA supporters who think the president’s war is worth the economic costs has dropped 13% in just the last two months.
Just consider the advice longtime Trump supporter and MAGA darling Bill O’Reilly shared on his podcast this week. O’Reilly told the president to “take the next month off.”
“Get into an environment where you, like, golf and relax a little bit,” he said. “You got to deal with Iran — I understand that, everybody understands it — but you can do that on the phone, and you can do that with your people coming. But you need a breather.”
Now, was O’Reilly making that suggestion because he is genuinely concerned that Trump is not OK? Maybe. Or was he making it because he thinks this disastrous war will be easier to bring to an end if Trump isn’t sitting in the Oval Office every day? It’s possible. Or it could be a
by Sharon Zhang | Jul 23, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, Marco Rubio, News, War Crimes
President Donald Trump has threatened to conduct an attack on Iran that’s “bigger than ever,” saying that he is still considering whether or not to do so after weeks of vowing to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure, in what experts say would be war crimes. “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,” Trump told Axios’s…
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