The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.

Trump’s effort to oust the director of the National Portrait Gallery could give him absolute control over Smithsonian content ...

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Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to ...

Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., was still coming to work earlier this week-even ...

“Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the ...

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to assert control over an elite American cultural institution has turned into a ...

The move comes after the president dispatched Vice President JD Vance to “remove improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums.

President Donald Trump announced on May 30 that he fired Kim Sajet from her role as director of Smithsonian’s National ...

After weeks of threatening to crack down on the Smithsonian for “divisive narratives,” Trump on Friday fired National ...

The National Portrait Gallery, established in 1962 by an ... Its collection includes more than 26,000 works. An independent institution, the Smithsonian has operated as a public-private ...

Trump’s move to fire Sajet, who was named director in 2013, has been called into question as the Smithsonian is not under the ...