Smithsonian Exhibit on Presidential Impeachment Removes Evidence of Trump Impeachments

 

This is a picture of a magnet that was being sold at Strand's Book Store in New York City a few years ago. No, I did not buy it, but I liked it and took a picture, which I am sharing here now. 

The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. 

Quick, name the only American president to have been impeached on two separate occasions.

If you answered Trump, you are absolutely correct.

Yet, if you visit the Smithsonian's exhibit on historical presidential impeachments, you will not find Trump anywhere. You will find stuff on Andrew Johnson, on Richard Nixon, and on Bill Clinton. Yet Trump is somehow absent from this list, first for blackmailing Ukraine, and the second time for his role in pressuring Georgia election officials to find him over 11,000 votes so the tide of the election in that state, which he lost in 2020, would suddenly, magically go in his favor.

In both cases, Trump's conversations were recorded for history to review. I truly believe that history will not be kind to Trump and his supporters. And those conversations in particular with be some of the prime testimony against Trump's incompetence and blatant corruption, to say nothing of his hunger for power, his ego, his trademark malignant narcissism, and his transparent sense of entitlement.

Somehow, though, institutions keep bowing down to Trump, giving him what he wants, particularly during this second term. Harvard fought Trump, yet Columbia University shamefully backed down. Now, so did the Smithsonian Institute. 

For now, Trump and his loyal supporters will get what they want, which is his name erased from that dubious distinction as one of four presidents ever seriously faced with impeachment, even though he was the only one who was technically impeached twice. It's like hey managed to erase it from history...for now.

It's weird how MAGA keeps whining and complaining about "cancel culture" and all of this other stuff without seeming end, at least when it suits them. But then they turn around and seem perfectly fine when their own version of "cancel culture" happens to suit their preferred narrative. This, coupled with suddenly attempting to charge former President Obama with treason and insurrection, which I have to say is so ridiculous and transparent as to be almost laughable.

Almost.

Talk about revisionist history. 

The most recent example of this is the Smithsonian Institution.

Have to say, I lost quite a bit of respect for the Smithsonian as a result of this. 

Trump's impeachments have been removed from a Smithsonian exhibit, for now by  Scott Neuman, August 1, 2025:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g-s1-80602/smithsonian-impeachment-trump