Smithsonian Removes Trump’s Impeachments From Presidential Exhibit
President Donald Trump was impeached twice in his first term as president, but visitors to Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will not read about them. That’s because any reference to those impeachments were…
President Donald Trump was impeached twice in his first term as president, but visitors to Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will not read about them.
That’s because any reference to those impeachments were removed when his portrait in an exhibition of U.S. presidents was replaced last week, per Mediaite.
The original text included, “Impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, he was acquitted by the Senate in both trials.”
When his portrait was replaced on Thursday, all text was removed, except for Trump’s birth year and naming him as the 45th and 47th president.
The portrait was replaced with one taken by White House photographer Daniel Torok.
As of Sunday, Trump’s display was the only one that did not include extended text.
For instance, the text for former President Bill Clinton’s portrait reads he was impeached for “lying while under oath about a sexual relationship he had with a White House intern.”
The gallery said in a statement the change was part of planned update to the exhibit. It added it had previously rotated two photographs of Trump from its collection before hanging Torok’s photo.