This is why we are well and truly fraked.

The fact that anyone would be willing to even entertain the idea of aligning anything with his 'view of history' is so laughable and ridiculous that the idea should just be part of a comedy routine. Just as the other crap they are doing should be. Just as their attempts to murder the segment of the population that does not make them richer. (Oh wait, that should be prosecuted, not part of a comedy show.)

But, let's all wait until the midterms. The death and destruction of our societal net and those who depend on it, which will happen as quickly as they can make it, are just collateral damage anyway, right? I mean, those people don't work. They don't make someone else rich and they are not rich themselves. So, why worry about any of that, right? And, even if there is a 'victory' in the courts, the regime won't obey it.

(This is just the latest attempt to continue their fascist takeover. I am glad that the Smithsonian was willing to tell them to kiss it, but this is just one of their grift attempts. There have been others that worked 'bigly' because the people in charge were too busy kissing that orange ass to realize they were cutting off their own... freedoms. So, there is already plenty of precedent. There should not be, but that is where we are, now. The programming worked.)

He'll figure out what he can do to them what would be worse. Destroy the collections? Stop all funding? Fire the staff and put in his own people to do God knows what?

Their resistance is important--we should not comply in advance or capitulate easily. But unless courts rule and SOMEONE enforces that, he will have his way.

I never imagined I'd be so grateful for displays of principles and courage in this country---or how scarce such displays would become in the face of such evil.

the next thing you know we'll have a gulag archipelago for everybody who disagrees with his version of history. That's you and me.

The Smithsonian will sue and win. The question is who will stop his brownshirts from going in anyway? Is there an armed force that will follow court orders instead of Trump's, and physically defend court decisions? Without that, the end is predictable.

But there's value in not making it easy, and making sure the public knows what is happening.
If Trump does what he did to the Kennedy Center, no one will come. I wonder what happens to the collection when there is no income. At least there will be artists to perform in the Kennedy Center when the country comes to it's senses. Collections that aren't protected will not re-appear.