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Across government
Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office last summer. It had been there since 2009.
Following Trump’s signing of a sweeping executive order overhauling federal DEI programs last January, the Defense Intelligence Agency ordered a pause of all activities and events related to MLK Day.
The DIA also paused programming for Black History Month, Juneteenth, LGBTQ Pride Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and other “special observances” to comply with Trump’s order, per NBC News.
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National Parks
Free entry to national parks will now be granted on Trump’s birthday but no longer on MLK Day or Juneteenth, the White House announced last month.
Beyond its elimination of a “fee-free” MLK Day, the Trump administration is administering an extensive purge of exhibits across the nation’s parks that includes a substantial removal of materials related to MLK, said Kristen Brengel, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at the National Parks Conservation Association.
The Department of the Interior last May required every park to conduct a review of “public monuments, memorials, statues, or similar properties” complying with a Trump executive order targeting “race-centered ideology” and “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
The DOI’s order said that it would flag items for removal that violated the executive order. The NPCA has a database of items flagged by the DOI based on reports from current National Parks Service employees, which Axios has viewed. Those items include exhibits, films, books, and youth-oriented materials such as junior ranger pamphlets.
The DOI identified “about 80” items for removal at the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, where King led a march in support of the Voting Rights Act, according to Brengel.
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Flashback: Trump’s order also targeted the Smithsonian Institution, launching an ongoing war with its museums to change its exhibits.
Such changes include the removal of a Bible that civil rights activist Rev. Amos Brown took to demonstrations with MLK.
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