Even zoological parks are on the way to undergo the effects of the second Trump mandate. On March 28, 2025, the American president officially loaded his vice-president JD vance to rid the Smithsonian Institution of all “Inappropriate ideology”. Composed of twenty-one museums, twenty-one libraries, fourteen research and education centers and a zoo, this scientific research institution-you have at least heard in the film of films Night at the museum– has been managed by the American federal government since its foundation in 1846.
The zoological park is concerned, explains The Atlantic, since it is explicitly mentioned in the mission order validated by Donald Trump. But what sauce will he be eaten? For the time being, it is still difficult to know. If the order specifies what will happen to the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of African-American History and Culture (elimination of all “Titining ideology” And “Centered on race”in favor of exhibitions that can inspire pride “In the hearts of all Americans”), it does not provide any details about the zoo.
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It didn’t take more for journalist Ross Andersen to embark on a wide visit to the zoological park, located in Washington, in order to try to understand what could possibly displease the Trump administration. Maybe the panels printed in both English and Spanish? Or the posters taking up the words of former director Steven Monfort, who says that by going from 1 billion to 8 billion individuals in two centuries, the human population “Has returned to wild fauna”? This could upset JD Vance, always on the lookout for the slightest remarks that can be considered as antinatalist.
It takes a lot of imagination to get to understand what this zoo can look like once at the Maga reel. Ross Andersen has neglected any track, noticing a sign “Potentially” divisive “” in the enclosure of turkeys. This establishes a distinction between the indigenous peoples of North America, who have chased these birds for thousands of years without exterminating them, and the European colonists, which led them to the edge of extinction in just two centuries. Such comments are likely to spill the pride of the most Trumpist Americans.
The large fresco devoted to the climate could also be changed, Imagine Ross Andersen. The Trump administration rising to eradicating any reference to climate change on government websites, perhaps it wishes to continue its mission to the Smithsonian zoo. Very soft, the vast visual dating from the 1990s only promotes solar energy and waste collection. But probably it is already too much for Trump, Vance and their clique.
In fact, for a zoological park, that of the Smithsonian is already curiously polite, explains the journalist. It is difficult to find the slightest remarks that can be considered as divisive by the kings of witch hunt. Neither the words about the state of fauna and the planet nor the books offered in the essential store seems particularly radical. Ross Andersen simply found the trace of the organization, in 2024, of an International Day of Family Equality, during which we have observed a beaver or a seal reveling in a cake in the colors of the rainbow. Sufficient for Donald Trump to consider the zoo as a place of propaganda LGBT+? No hypothesis is to be ruled out.
