{"id":2442296,"date":"2025-06-03T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-smithsonian-violating-trumps-gender-ideology-eo\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:51:56","slug":"is-the-smithsonian-violating-trumps-gender-ideology-eo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-smithsonian-violating-trumps-gender-ideology-eo\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Smithsonian Violating Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Gender Ideology&#8217; EO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-the-smithsonian-violating-trumps-gender-ideology-eo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2442296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In June, several Smithsonian museums hosted events promoting LGBT ideology despite a directive from President Donald Trump that ended federal funding for &#8220;gender ideology.&#8221; The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art museum organized a &#8220;Pride Family Festival,&#8221; designed for children, featuring activities such as crafts, a scavenger hunt, and performances by LGBT groups. Critics argue this contradicts Trump&#8217;s executive order, as these museums receive meaningful federal funding, amounting to over $1 billion for the Smithsonian as a whole in fiscal year 2024. Additionally, the Smithsonian American Art Museum&#8217;s website encourages children to engage with LGBT-themed activities. Other events celebrating Pride at the museums further stirred controversy, as no responses where provided regarding the use of federal funds for these programs. A White House official reaffirmed the intent to prevent federal funds from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-young-disneyland-cast-member-tells-crowd-protesting-at-disney-hq-it-is-okay-to-stand-up-for-righteousness-youre-not-alone\/\" title=\"WATCH: Young Disneyland \u2018Cast Member\u2019 Tells Crowd Protesting At Disney HQ: \u2018It Is Okay To Stand Up For Righteousness \u2026 You\u2019re Not Alone\u2019\">promoting gender ideology<\/a>, but declined to clarify the status of future Pride events, while noting the termination of National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s director for her perceived partisanship.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In one of his day-one executive orders, President Donald Trump ordered an end to the federal funding of &ldquo;gender ideology.&rdquo; So why are Smithsonian museums &mdash; which rake in more than a billion taxpayer dollars a year &mdash; hosting events promoting LGBT ideology for the month of June?<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the National Portrait Gallery, along with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), threw an event billed as a &ldquo;Pride Family Festival.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/events\/pride?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D182804330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tagged<\/a> under both the &ldquo;Family Programs&rdquo; and &ldquo;Kids and Families&rdquo; event categories on the Smithsonian&rsquo;s website, the three-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-public-university-uva-spent-nearly-541-per-minute-for-ibram-kendi-racial-equity-lecture\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Public University UVA Spent Nearly 1 Per Minute For Ibram Kendi \u2018Racial Equity\u2019 Lecture\">-a-half-hour event<\/a> was geared specifically toward children, with &ldquo;hands-on craft activities.&rdquo; A description posted online <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpridedc.org\/event\/pride-family-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">boasted<\/a> of coloring pages, a scavenger hunt, and &ldquo;a drop-in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >story time featuring biographies<\/a>.&rdquo; A dance troupe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gridlockdance.com\/events\/national-portrait-gallery-pride-family-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">performed<\/a> a routine that, according to its website, &ldquo;explores the work of queer women artists.&rdquo; The youth section of the D.C. Gay Men&rsquo;s Chorus was invited to perform, as was a band named D.C.&rsquo;s Different Drummers, which <a href=\"https:\/\/dcdd.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes<\/a> itself as a &ldquo;lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender music organization.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>An official <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpridedc.org\/event\/pride-family-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partner<\/a> of the event was WorldPride DC, an extension of WorldPride, which is a recurring global event that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpride.org\/worldpride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a> it &ldquo;promotes visibility and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) issues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Such an event appears to violate Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">order<\/a> that &ldquo;federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology.&rdquo; The Portrait Gallery has a &ldquo;total annual federal budget of about $23 million,&rdquo; according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/about\/bios\/kim-sajet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>. The Smithsonian Institution as a whole received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/newsdesk\/releases\/smithsonian-fiscal-year-2024-federal-budget-totals-more-1-billion#:~:text=Smithsonian%20Fiscal%20Year%202024%20Federal%20Budget%20Totals%20More%20Than%20%241%20Billion,-March%2018%2C%202024&amp;text=The%20final%20appropriation%20for%20the,year's%20appropriation%20of%20%241.14%20billion.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1.09 billion<\/a> in taxpayer funding for fiscal year 2024, making up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/newsdesk\/factsheets\/facts-about-smithsonian-institution-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">62 percent<\/a> of its total funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian American Art Museum&rsquo;s website even hosts a dedicated page titled &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/events\/family-zone\/pride?utm_source=si.edu&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=OneSmithsonian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pride Family Zone<\/a>,&rdquo; which invites children to &ldquo;visit this page throughout the month for craft activities, coloring pages, video performances, and more as we celebrate Pride.&rdquo; Rainbow-themed crafts offered on the page are designed for children as young as 3, with one encouraging kids to &ldquo;design your own pride flag.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Also hosted on the &ldquo;Family Zone&rdquo; page is a 2020 music <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GGDclpmd46M&amp;t=68s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> from D.C.&rsquo;s Different Drummers in which a drag queen wielding a rainbow umbrella chases a man and berates him until he acquiesces to the demand to put on a Covid face mask.<\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s not just the art museums. In addition to a &ldquo;Celebrating Pride&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/events\/pride?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D174896648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trivia night<\/a> at the Portrait Gallery, the American History Museum plans to celebrate LGBT ideology with an adults-only &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/events\/pride?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D183600540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evening of LGBTQ+ trivia<\/a>.&rdquo; Also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/events\/pride?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D183203565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listed<\/a> is an &ldquo;Intergenerational Panel Discussion&rdquo; on WorldPride sponsored and hosted by the American History Museum. (In a short bio about each participant, the museum noted that moderator Katherine Ott &ldquo;responds to all pronouns and is energetically honing her queer superpower.&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p>Neither the Portrait Gallery, the SAAM, nor the American History Museum responded to a comment request when asked why the Smithsonian is still using federal funds to promote LGBT programming. <\/p>\n<p>A White House official said the administration would continue &ldquo;to ensure that federal funds will not be used to promote gender ideology&rdquo; but declined to comment on whether remaining scheduled &ldquo;Pride&rdquo; events would be canceled. The official also noted that Kim Sajet, the former director of the National Portrait Gallery, had been fired on Friday &ldquo;for her strong partisanship and support&nbsp;for DEI initiatives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elle Purnell is the assignment editor at The Federalist. She has appeared on Fox Business and Newsmax, and her work has been featured by RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. She received her B.A. in government with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s order halted federal funding for &#8220;gender ideology,&#8221; yet Smithsonian museums, funded by taxpayers, are hosting LGBT events in June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2442297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/https-d3ec1vt3scx7rr.cloudfront.net-files-press-2019-05-SAAM20Pride20photo20by20Elisabeth20Coco-scaled.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45743,17565,3634],"class_list":["post-2442296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gender-ideology","tag-smithsonian","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/https-d3ec1vt3scx7rr.cloudfront.net-files-press-2019-05-SAAM20Pride20photo20by20Elisabeth20Coco-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442300,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442296\/revisions\/2442300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}