It's not about whitewashing, it's all about full context, so while slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress.

Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments."

The examples cited included a 2020 "Whiteness" Infographic, Latinos With Disabilities Program & Anthony Fauci Portrait

Lindsey Halligan, the president's special assistant, told Fox News "we can’t just keep focusing on the negative."

MSNBC political analyst Eugene Robinson, on Friday's "Morning Joe," gave his opinion on the Trump administration's examination of which exhibits to change in Smithsonian museums. Robinson said the idea that the Civil War "expiated all sins" and everything was "roses" after that is "just ridiculous.