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Two former employees at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., have revealed that the institution preemptively changed its programming to avoid the Trump administration's criticism, according to a Politico report on Monday.

As President Donald Trump returned to his second term in office, the museum cut a workshop titled the "fragility of democracy" and scrubbed educational resources about racism in the United States from its website. The moves came as Trump's administration focused on "corrosive ideology," a crackdown and attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and educational content it views as promoting what it considers anti-American values, including lessons about racism and democracy's fragility.

Following Trump's demands that the Smithsonian Institution change "to more closely align its content with his worldview," the administration pushed to remove mentions of DEI initiatives from government websites. He has not commented on USHMM's educational content or website. However, two former staff members spoke under condition of anonymity over fear of retaliation, saying that the museum made several of the changes to try "to not draw unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration." ...

As part of its "Do You Know? Do You Care?" campaign, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust staged a protest Thursday outside of the New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum. The activists not only held signs reading "ABQ: America's Auschwitz," they entered the museum to hand out leaflets and demand it commission an exhibit comparing the Holocaust to abortion. They did not, by their own admission, know much about the laws they came to protest.