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Trump ordena que se instalen letreros fuera del Museo Smithsonian para advertir sobre “información inexacta”

El presidente Donald Trump ordenó este viernes al Servicio de Parques Nacionales (NPS, por sus siglas en inglés) la instalación temporal de letreros cerca del Museo Nacional de Historia Estadounidense del Smithsonian, que adviertan sobre lo que el Gobierno considera “información inexacta” presentada en las exhibiciones de la institución.

El decreto exige que el NPS, que controla las aceras fuera de varios museos del Smithsonian a lo largo del National Mall, instale letreros que promuevan un informe de la Casa Blanca que criticó duramente las exhibiciones del Museo Nacional de Historia Estadounidense.

Indica que los letreros “deberán notificar a los visitantes que las exhibiciones del Museo deben renovarse de manera coherente con las conclusiones” del informe y los dirige a “lugares y recursos para obtener información precisa” sobre la historia del país.

No especifica cuáles deberían ser esos recursos alternativos.

El informe, publicado el 4 de julio por el Consejo de Política Nacional de la Casa Blanca, acusó al Smithsonian de promover ideologías de izquierda radical en el museo y un activismo político extremo que busca transformar el país.

Los críticos han acusado al Gobierno de Trump de intentar utilizar el museo para reescribir la historia presentada en sus exhibiciones para favorecer una visión conservadora del mundo.

“El presidente Trump lucha para devolver a uno de los mayores tesoros cívicos de la nación su misión y propósito fundacionales, y restablecer la verdad en la narrativa histórica del país”, declaró la Casa Blanca en un comunicado sobre la orden.

El decreto de este viernes es el más reciente esfuerzo del Gobierno de Trump por reescribir aspectos de la historia de la nación presentados en algunos de los museos y galerías más prestigiosos del país.

Y se suma a otro decreto de marzo de 2025 en el que la Casa Blanca buscó combatir lo que llamó “revisiones históricas” que presentan la historia del país bajo una luz negativa.

Si bien el Servicio de Parques Nacionales depende del Departamento del Interior, el Smithsonian es una agencia independiente que, en teoría, debería operar fuera del control del poder ejecutivo.

No obstante, el Gobierno controla gran parte de la financiación del sistema de museos y el vicepresidente J. D. Vance forma parte de su junta directiva.

Los líderes del Smithsonian afirmaron que la institución mantendrá su autonomía pese a los repetidos intentos del Gobierno de intervenir en sus exhibiciones y decisiones de personal.

El Smithsonian declinó comentar sobre el decreto de este viernes.

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Trump speaks at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in redo after April attack

▶ Watch Video: WHCA President Weijia Jiang speaks at rescheduled dinner 3 months after shooting Washington — President Trump cracked jokes at reporters and politicians during take two of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, after April's event was upended when an armed assailant rushed through a security checkpoint and the U.S. Secret Service opened fire on the gunman. Three months after the suspect was stopped outside the Washington Hilton's ballroom, Mr. Trump attended the White House Correspondents' Association's do-over of the dinner at a different Washington hotel — the Waldorf Astoria, which was once a Trump Organization hotel. The event highlighted the president's sometimes-tense relationship with the press. Mr. Trump has sparred with many of the journalists who spoke or accepted awards during the dinner — though he didn't visibly express frustration while seated on stage, and he shook the award-winners' hands. The president smiled as CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer described the fallout from The Wall Street Journal's reporting on Mr. Trump's past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein."This has not been an easy evening," Mr. Trump later joked during his speech, referring to the award-winners.Mr. Trump said the assembled journalists included "a lot of people that I like, some I don't like at all, but I respect most of them." He needled and joked about the press, though he told the audience he scrapped some sharp-tongued material that he was planning to deliver in April: "I was going to rip people," he said, calling it "such a letdown." At times, the president got few reactions from the crowd when jabbing his political opponents or delivering rally-style material.  At other points, the president joked about his penchant for drawing press attention. "You people have no idea how lucky you are. When I'm gone, you're all going to be broke. Your business model is going to be finished," Mr. Trump said, later donning a "Trump 2028" hat in what he cast as a bid to help out the news business.Weijia Jiang, the correspondents' association's most recent past president and CBS News' senior White House correspondent, said at one point during the event: "There is ... an existential difference between criticizing the press and trying to undermine it. One is healthy and it makes all of us better. The other is exactly what the founders hoped to prevent." Later in the event, mentalist Oz Pearlman performed a set in which he appeared to correctly guess the amount of money in Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's wallet (it was $85).Jiang told Pearlman earlier in the evening: "We can't wait to see what you reveal, but you can skip the part where you guess the president's phone number because half the reporters in this room already have it."Secret Service officials have warned that nationwide threats have reached an unprecedented level, with agents opening roughly 10,000 protective intelligence cases since January — a nearly 40% increase from the same period last year. The Secret Service had prepared for the makeup dinner, and Secret Service Director Sean Curran told reporters in a briefing Wednesday that every venue is reevaluated before every presidential visit."We will always evaluate every site, and right now we have an advance team there, and they will take back, and they will set up a plan to set that site up for success, just like we did at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Hilton," Curran said. "That is a success."On Friday night, the White House Correspondents' Association presented an award for exceptional service to the Secret Service officer who was struck in his protective vest at the April dinner, along with the entire Washington Hilton staff. "I do think their bravery should be recognized, and I'm really looking forward to giving out those two awards," Jiang said. Jiang said Friday night's program was "very much the same" as April's, although the size was smaller."There are enhanced security measures," Jiang told C-SPAN. "We have a private security firm that has worked closely with Secret Service. There are new measures that every single dinner guest has to take."Attendees had to present a unique QR code with a government-issued photo ID to get through ticketing, and go through layers of security to enter the ballroom. The association worked extensively with the Secret Service."It was incredibly important to have the safety of our guests to be the top priority," she said.
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