白宫近日发布一份长达 162 页、措辞激烈的报告，指责史密森学会从事 “极端政治激进活动”，并向公众灌输 “一套激进的美国历史观”。
该报告于2026 年 7 月 4 日(美国独立日)发布，矛头直指旗下的美国国家历史博物馆。报告指控该馆领导层奉行一种意识形态框架：不再把美国历史视为全民共享、值得讲述与颂扬的国家遗产，而是将其当作制造分裂、打击士气、消解公民认同的政治工具。
报告还称博物馆存在反白人激进主义、非法移民激进主义、跨性别激进主义等倾向，并附有多份被白宫认定 “有问题” 的展品材料照片。
史密森学会管理着 21 座博物馆、美术馆及国家动物园。学会发言人对美国广播公司(ABC)表示，机构始终坚持中立、客观的学术立场。
“180 多年来，史密森学会始终以无党派、独立的学术研究服务美国公众，我们将继续坚守这一原则。” 发言人于周日回应。
学会秘书长朗尼・邦奇在周日早间 NBC《与媒体见面》节目中表示，学会一直在追寻美国理想的真谛。
这份由白宫国内政策委员会发布的报告，正值白宫对史密森学会展开全面审查、且学会内部也同步启动展品与流程自查之际。针对内部审查进展，学会发言人未予置评。
白宫的审查源于特朗普 2025 年 3 月 27 日签署的行政令——《为美国历史恢复真相与理性》public-ins...。该行政令要求副总统J.D. 万斯在白宫国内政策顾问协助下，清除史密森体系中的不当意识形态，声称任何抹黑美国形象的内容都不应出现在联邦文化机构中public-ins...。
报告强调：“我们提出的严重关切，绝非仅针对少数展品或个别争议标签。如今，对大多数美国人、尤其是带孩子参观的家长而言，这家旗舰历史博物馆若在每个入口都贴上一句警示，或许更为合适：警告：本馆展品由不愿让你热爱祖国的人策划。”
报告里都写了什么?
报告列举了数十项被视为 “激进宣传” 的展品案例： 针对常设展 **《多元声音，一个国家》**，报告称其试图向参观者灌输一种观点：移民(包括非法移民入籍)是当代民权与自由的核心议题。 批评涉及跨性别议题的展览，如 **《少女时代》—— 该展介绍了跨性别媒体人、LGBTQ + 权益活动家贾兹・詹宁斯 **。 报告称：“国家历史博物馆激进意识形态最明显的表现之一，就是拒绝正确界定‘女性’的定义。” 这一说法呼应了特朗普2025 年 1 月的另一项行政令：政府只承认基于生物学的两种性别 —— 男性与女性public-ins...。
整体而言，报告强烈反对展品涉及白人至上、种族主义、奴隶制、殖民征服、社会排斥等议题的叙事。报告称，博物馆对美国开国元勋的介绍严重不足，并把美国描绘成一个从根源上充满缺陷、至今仍系统性地推行种族压迫的国家。
美国历史协会(AHA)执行董事萨拉・韦克塞尔此前对 ABC 表示，白宫此举是试图在联邦文化机构中打造一个经过刻意美化、符合特朗普行政令口径的 “简化版美国历史”。
代表全美 1 万名历史学者的美国历史协会已公开力挺史密森学会，并呼吁白宫尊重专业历史学者、策展人与文博专家的专业判断—— 他们依据学术标准修订历史内容。ABC 已联系该协会寻求进一步评论。 接下来会发生什么?
报告并未明确提出整改措施，但强调史密森学会主要依靠联邦财政与纳税人资金运转。
报告称：“这意味着公众有权要求它忠实守护国家历史文化遗产，而非沦为意识形态宣传工具。”
史密森学会现有超过 10 亿美元联邦拨款(约占总经费 62%)，其余来自信托基金、私人捐赠及文创收入。
邦奇自 2019 年起担任学会秘书长，学会由17 人组成的董事会管理。2025 年 8 月 28 日，邦奇曾在白宫与特朗普会面，并多次强调学会独立于政治干预。
在 9 月 3 日致员工的信中，邦奇再次强调独立性至关重要，并表示学会将继续讲述 “美国故事”，永远欢迎所有美国民众与世界访客。
In scathing report, White House accuses Smithsonian of presenting 'a radical view of American history'
The White House released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in "extreme political activism" and presenting "a radical view of American history."
The report, which was published on Saturday, July 4, particularly took aim at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH), accusing its leadership of adopting "an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens."
The report accuses the museum of "anti-White activism," "illegal alien activism," and "transgender activism." It also includes many photos of materials the White House has identified as problematic.
Asked about the report, a spokesperson for the Smithsonian, which oversees 21 museums, galleries and the national zoo, told ABC News that the institution remains committed to impartial learning.
"For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so," the spokesperson said on Sunday.
In his most recent public comments, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview that aired Sunday morning that the institution is "in pursuit of the promise of America."
The report, which was published by the White House's Domestic Policy Council, comes amid an ongoing White House review of the Smithsonian as well as a separate internal review launched by the Smithsonian into its own exhibits and processes. Asked about the status of the internal review, a spokesperson for the Smithsonian did not comment.
The White House review was launched in response to President Donald Trump's March 27, 2025executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."
The executive order directed Vice President J.D. Vance, in consultation with the president's advisers on domestic policy, "to remove improper ideology" from Smithsonian institutions, arguing that materials that cast America in a "negative light" have no place in federal cultural institutions.
"The serious concerns raised in this report are not about a few exhibits or a few controversial labels," the report says. "As it stands today, it would benefit most Americans, especially parents bringing their children for a tour, if the Smithsonian's flagship history museum had a label at every entrance that reads: 'Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don't want you to love your country.'"
What's in the report?
The report includes dozens of examples of exhibits and materials in exhibits that the White House has determined to be examples of "radical activism."
For instance, the report highlights an exhibit titled "Many Voices, One Nation," and claims that its contents attempt "to instill within visitors its belief that migration and immigration, including the granting of citizenship to illegal aliens, is a defining modern-day civil rights and human liberty issue."
The report also takes issue with displays about transgender people, including an exhibit titled "Girlhood" that profiled transgender media personality and LGBTQ+ rights advocate Jazz Jennings.
"One of the clearest examples of NMAH's radical ideology is its refusal to correctly identify or define what a woman is," the report states -- reinforcing language from Trump's January 2025executive order,which outlined that this administration's policy would be to "recognize two sexes, male and female" based on biology.
Overall, the report takes issue with materials addressing "white supremacy," "racism" and the country's history of "slavery," "conquest" and "exclusion."
The report claims that the museum fails to substantially represent the founders of the United States and that the exhibits cast America as "a problematic country irredeemably conceived, founded by deeply flawed men, and still operating today as an instrument of systemic racism and oppression."
Sarah Weicksel, executive director of the American Historical Association, previously told ABC News that the White House is seeking to create "a narrowly sanitized version of the American past" at federal cultural institutions "that fits comfortably" into Trump's executive order.
The American Historical Association (AHC), which represents 10,000 historians across various educational and cultural institutions in the U.S., has publicly defended the Smithsonian and urged the White House to "respect and value the expertise of the historians, curators, and other museum professionals who conduct the review and revision of historical content according to the professional standards of our discipline."
ABC News reached out to AHA for further comment.
What comes next?
The report does not specify action points related to correcting the so-called "activism," but does reference the fact that the Smithsonian Institution is largely funded by the federal government and U.S. taxpayers.
"That means the public has a right to expect that it will operate as a faithful steward of the Nation's historic and cultural heritage, not as a vehicle for ideological campaigns," the report says.
According to the Smithsonian Institution, which oversees 21 museums and galleries and the national zoo, it currently receives more than $1 billion in federal funding -- about 62% of its funding -- and the remainder of the funds come from "trust funds or non-federal funds, including contributions from private sources" and revenues from Smithsonian enterprises.
Bunch has been leading the Smithsonian since 2019 but the institution is overseen by a 17-member governing body, known as the Board of Regents. Bunch, who met with Trump at the White House on Aug. 28, 2025, repeatedly affirmed the Smithsonian's "independence" from political influence.
Referencing his conversations with Trump in a Sept. 3, 2025 letter to the institution's employees, Bunch underscored the independence of the Smithsonian, saying it was "paramount." He also told employees that the institution remains committed to telling the "American story" and "will always be, a place that welcomes all Americans and the world."
