President Donald TrumpThe assault Smithsonian The institution and initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) continued on Friday. The president announced in Truth Social that he was saying goodbye to Kim Sajet, director of the National Gallery of Portraits of Smithsonian, and accused her of being “a very partisan person.”
“At the request and recommendation of many people, I am Herby finishing the employment of Kim Sajet as director of the National Portrait Gallery,” Trump wrote in his publication. “She is a very partisan person and a great defender of Dei, who is totally inappropriate for her position. Her replacement will be appointed shortly.”
It is not clear if the president has the authority to end Sajet, since the gallery extends under the scope of the Smithsonian institution.
The representative of the National Portrait Gallery or the Smithsonian did not immediately respond to Rolling stoneRequest for comments.
According to her biography on the website of the National Portrait Gallery, Sajet was the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington, DC, before, according to the biography, she was president and executive director of the historical society of the history of history, the vice president and director of the Academy of Pennsylvania of the Academy of the Museum of Pennsylvania, and Director of Corporate Relations of Corporate Relations of Corporate Relations of Corporate Relations of Corporate Relations of the Philage of the Arts of the Pennsylvania.
In February, Trump’s He was appointed president Or the John F. Kennedy Center For performing arts, which leads to a Programs and artist cancellation waterfall After the news and a few months later, the president announced his executive order to eliminate the “anti -American ideology” of the Smithsonian institution. Trump ordered that spending on exhibitions or programs that “degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on the race or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federal law and politics” would be prohibited and directly vice president.
The Smithsonian covers 21 museums and, according to its website, is the world’s most large museum, education and research, which covers 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo. The National Gallery of Portraits currently presents an exhibition that contains photos of each president of the United States and concludes with the popular painting of Barack Obama in 2018 by Kehinde Wiley and a photo of Donald Trump, tasks of Matt McClain in 2017. The succinct subtitle for Trump reading: “Two promoted twice, for charges of abuse of power and incitement to insurrection after supporters attacked the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, it was acquired by the Senate in both judgments. After losing to Joe Bides in 204, it is the Fion’s asshump mounted in a historic.
When speaking with him Guardian Last year, Sajet, a daughter of Dutch immigrants who was born in Nigeria, raised in Australia and is a citizen of the Netherlands, reflected on her role in the gallery. “I have a great love for the United States and it is home to me, but I think it is a real advantage to be able to go back,” said Sajet. “Perhaps part of my advantage is to say that what was in the United States has this domino effect. Remembering Americans the tremendous gift they have given everyone is always good.”
She added: “I am very proud or I am in the gallery of portraits of the United States because there are people so notable that they have changed the needle not only within the United States but also in the world.”
