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Trump is demanding a 30-foot George Washington statue and a Constitution Day deadline at the Smithsonian's American history museum, blasting its 'overwhelming focus on oppression' — days after the museum's secretary announced his retirement following months of pressure from the administration. Restoring patriotic history, or the White House dictating what a museum can say?

Secretary Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian's first Black secretary, announced on September 8 he'll retire at year's end after nearly a decade leading it; the Smithsonian calls it his personal choice, whi