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It’s hard to believe, but it’s happening. On 27 March 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order, ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History’. Among its main concerns was the Smithsonian American Art Museum which, the order complained, featured an exhibit that claimed that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism”.
The White House was especially upset that the exhibit “promoted the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating ‘Race is a human invention.’”
On 15 February, a memo from the US General Services Administration removed an explicit ‘Prohibition of Segregated Facilities’ (like waiting rooms, restaurants and drinking fountains) for federal contractors. Though the memo cannot overturn the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination based on race, colour or other traits in public facilities, legal experts describe it as a powerful symbolic act exemplifying Trump’s embrace of a segregationist agenda.
The White House’s open support for racist and eugenicist ideas does not come out of the blue. It is the culmination of decades of subversion by scientific racists...
