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福克斯新闻数字频道的调查显示，这批在史密森学会展览中担任主创的学者，其职业生涯始终围绕种族、性别、性取向与社会正义等主题展开——而这些主题如今正让该博物馆面临意识形态偏见的指控。
2022年12月开幕的《娱乐国度》常设展览位于史密森学会美国国家历史博物馆，该展览通过音乐、电影、电视、戏剧与体育领域的文物，探讨流行文化如何塑造美国生活。
该展览的七人策展团队中的每一位成员，都曾在学术著作、公开评论或此前的博物馆项目中融入种族不公、性别不平等、性取向或其他进步社会议题相关的主题。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，这些策展人存在对与共产主义相关人物的赞扬、与进步主义 activist 运动的立场一致，以及明确将博物馆工作与社会正义挂钩的表述。
特朗普下令在史密森博物馆外悬挂标语，围绕美国历史描绘引发争议
史密森学会美国国家历史博物馆《娱乐国度》展览入口处播放的视频中，出现了衣着暴露的女性画面，以及出自女权主义惊悚剧《使女的故事》的片段。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
一名白宫高级官员此前在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时指责《娱乐国度》展览在“以历史为幌子宣扬极端或 activist 意识形态”。
该展览首席策展人约翰·特劳特曼2023年在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时表示，该项目的初衷并非仅仅呈现传统的娱乐史，称其并非旨在成为“一档介绍娱乐历史的画廊”，而是要审视流行文化所反映的更广泛的社会运动。
特劳特曼的同事们也同样以种族排斥、性别刻板印象、恐同症及其他左翼政治阵营通常强调的社会冲突为视角，审视娱乐产业。
例如，策展人肯尼思·科恩2017年出版了《他们将拥有自己的游戏》一书，根据出版商的介绍，该书探讨了美国体育发展“如何在营造民主氛围的同时，也强化了种族、性别与阶级分化”。根据介绍，这本书剖析了体育如何推动美国“白人男性共和国的构建”。
“尽管竞争与风险是早期英裔美国人对‘体育’认知的核心，但基于这些元素构建体育文化并非必然趋势，”科恩在书中写道，“这是一个经过深思熟虑的选择，主要由手握权力的白人男性做出，他们围绕鼓励内部成员参与、帮助界定自身群体身份的特质构建体育文化，尽管群体内部存在阶级与种族分歧。”
观看：史密森馆长在爆炸性听证会之后承认，她将历史视为“社会正义的工具”
华盛顿特区史密森学会美国国家历史博物馆《娱乐国度》展览中的一块标语牌，纪念安东尼·福奇博士。（彼得·达布罗萨/福克斯新闻数字频道）
科恩的同事、策展人克里斯塔尔·克林根伯格同样将其学术研究的重点放在音乐、种族、社会正义与“黑人的命也是命”运动上。
在2022年参与的另一项史密森学会项目中，克林根伯格表示，她的目标是“将历史与美国社会 ongoing 的民权与社会正义斗争联系起来”。克林根伯格在其简历中将“社会正义”列为学术研究兴趣之一，同时列出了多项与之相关的学术项目。
- 史密森学会美国国家历史博物馆《娱乐国度》展览入口。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 《娱乐国度》展览中考察美国殖民主义历史的展区。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 在该《娱乐国度》展览中，策展人调侃印第安纳·琼斯是“隐忍的白人男性”。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 代表各类进步运动员的展品陈列在美国国家历史博物馆内，其中包括一条印有被杀害非裔美国人姓名的领带。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 美国国家历史博物馆的一块标语牌称亚历山大·汉密尔顿是“有缺陷的开国元勋”，并称赞林-曼努尔·米兰达让有色人种演员饰演开国元勋。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 美国国家历史博物馆《娱乐国度》展区内一块写着“身为墨西哥人我深感自豪”的标语牌。（罗伯特·施马德/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 华盛顿特区史密森学会美国国家历史博物馆《娱乐国度》展览中的一块标语牌，纪念安东尼·福奇博士。（彼得·达布罗萨/福克斯新闻数字频道）
其中包括她主持的一场学术讨论“‘黑人的命也是命’：音乐、种族与正义”，一场以“美国仇恨：我们该如何应对？”为题的民族音乐学演讲，以及另一场名为“通过音乐教授种族与族裔：交叉性”的讲座。
克林根伯格还联合主持了《Collected》播客节目，在节目中探讨“为何黑人女性主义批判对于理解我们所处的时代仍然至关重要”。
特朗普与史密森学会：白宫关于“觉醒”历史的斗争时间线
华盛顿特区史密森学会美国国家历史博物馆《娱乐国度》展览。（彼得·达布罗萨/福克斯新闻数字频道）
七位策展人均在不同程度上，在其学术或博物馆工作中涉及种族、性别、性取向、不平等或身份认同议题。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系所有七位策展人与史密森学会征求置评。
这场针对史密森学会的保守派讨伐行动始于2025年3月，当时美国总统唐纳德·特朗普签署行政命令，要求其政府对史密森学会的展览与项目进行审查。
7月份，随着国会听证会对美国国家历史博物馆展开审查，以及白宫发布一份长达162页的报告，指称史密森学会各展区存在意识形态偏见，《娱乐国度》展览的偏见指控再次引发全国关注。
“美国纳税人不应资助破坏我们国家或宣扬片面、分裂性政治叙事的机构，”一名白宫官员此前告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“史密森学会应当以准确、平衡且与使美利坚合众国与众不同的价值观相一致的方式呈现历史。”
上述白宫官员的批评，是在2025年有报道称《娱乐国度》展览使用左翼语言负面描绘美国之后发出的。
史密森学会250周年纪念展览中自由派展品数量是保守派的三倍
（从左至右）克里斯塔尔·克林根伯格、约翰·特劳特曼、阿什利·梅奥与西奥多·冈萨尔维斯在2024年《娱乐国度》活动上发言。（YouTube/美国国家历史博物馆）（YouTube/美国国家历史博物馆）
这些展区包括一个声称马戏团“表达了殖民主义征服世界的冲动”的板块，一块标语称米老鼠“过大的面部特征、白色手套与恶作剧者气质是黑人面部 minstrel 表演悠久传统的遗迹”，以及一块将亚历山大·汉密尔顿描述为“有影响力且有缺陷的开国元勋”的标语——白宫报告批评该语言对汉密尔顿进行了不公平的贬低。
部分策展人曾公开评论他们为展览征集特定展品的理由。
根据莱恩·林特尔曼接受《综艺》杂志采访时的说法，另一位《娱乐国度》策展人林特尔曼在征集 Hulu 剧集《使女的故事》改编版中标志性的红色服装一事上发挥了关键作用。这部由女权主义作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德创作的反乌托邦小说，描绘了一个美国沦为极权神权国家，女性被剥夺权利，育龄女性被称为“使女”并被迫从事生育奴役的世界。
林特尔曼表示，这套服装对左翼抗议运动的重要性，促使他为史密森学会征集一件同款展品。
前民主党幕僚、多元化公平包容负责人在政治风暴中塑造史密森领导层
身着《使女的故事》中使女服装的示威者参与反特朗普抗议活动，纪念美国总统唐纳德·特朗普连任一周年，美国华盛顿特区，2025年11月5日。（伊夫林·霍克斯坦/路透社）
“我认为，流行文化是一个独特且易于理解的视角，能够向博物馆观众介绍涉及种族、性取向、性别、身份认同、代表性、经济、移民、社会变革与权力的复杂叙事，”他在史密森学会的个人简介中写道。
2017年女性大游行上，《使女的故事》的服装成为标志性元素，该游行被视为反抗首届特朗普政府的最重要早期表达之一。另一位《娱乐国度》策展人西奥多·冈萨尔维斯在2018年的一篇赞扬芭芭拉·戴恩的文章中，也对这场游行表示了赞许。芭芭拉·戴恩是终身社会主义者、前美国共产党成员。
戴恩是一位广受赞誉的民谣音乐家，其职业生涯大部分时间都参与左翼政治活动，最著名的是在菲德尔·卡斯特尔执政期间访问古巴，公然对抗美国政府。她后来创立了一家唱片公司，制作赞扬毛泽东等共产主义人物的歌曲，称毛泽东是中国的“救世主”，并赞扬胡志明，积极支持越南战争中美国的敌人。
冈萨尔维斯将戴恩描述为“向权力发声”，并创作了“反映数百万试图理解一个被拥有毁灭世界武器的超级大国主导的世界的利害关系与希望梦想”的音乐。
冈萨尔维斯的学术研究曾聚焦于亚裔美国人遭受的历史不公，他在作品中使用“Filipinx”一词——这是一个指代菲律宾人的中性术语，与“Latinx”类似。
另一位专注于“拉丁裔与非裔拉丁裔音乐与文化”的《娱乐国度》策展人阿什利·梅奥，会在社交媒体上频繁分享左翼组织的帖子。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，第七位策展人埃里克·詹奇也曾撰文探讨美国体育史上的种族与种族主义问题。
白宫在7月份的报告中指责史密森学会“不再将美国故事视为可供传授或颂扬的共同民族遗产，而是将其作为分裂、打击士气、打击我国公民信心的政治工具”。
Trump’s Smithsonian clash exposes striking pattern among museum curators
August 7, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
A Fox News Digital review found all seven curators on the exhibit believe social justice should be injected into history
By Robert Schmad, Fox News
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The scholars behind a Smithsonian exhibition targeted by the Trump administration have built their careers around the same race, gender, sexuality and social-justice themes now fueling accusations of ideological bias at the museum, a Fox News Digital review found.
Entertainment Nation, which opened in December 2022, is an ongoing exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that uses artifacts from music, film, television, theater and sports to examine how popular culture has shaped American life.
Every member of the exhibit’s seven-person curatorial team has incorporated themes involving racial injustice, gender inequality, sexuality or other progressive social causes into their academic work, public commentary or prior museum projects. Fox News Digital’s review found praise for communist-linked figures, alignment with progressive activist movements and explicit statements connecting museum work to social justice.
TRUMP ORDERS SIGNS OUTSIDE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM AMID ROW OVER ITS DEPICTION OF AMERICAN HISTORY
A video playing at the entrance of the National Museum of American History’s Entertainment Nation exhibit features scantily clad women and a clip from the feminist thriller The Handmaid’s Tale.(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)
Speaking to Fox News Digital previously, a senior White House official accused Entertainment Nation of promoting “fringe or activist ideologies masquerading as history.”
John Troutman, the exhibit’s lead curator, told The Washington Post in 2023 that the project was meant to do more than present a conventional history of entertainment, saying it was not intended to serve as “a gallery that provides a history of entertainment,” but instead to examine broader social movements reflected in popular culture.
Troutman’s colleagues have similarly examined entertainment through themes of racial exclusion, gender stereotypes, homophobia and other social conflicts commonly emphasized by the political left.
Curator Kenneth Cohen, for example, published “They Will Have Their Game” in 2017, a book examining how the development of sports in the United States “produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions,” according to a description from his publisher. The book, per the description, examines how sports contributed to the “creation of the white male republic” in the United States.
“Although competition and risk were central to understandings of ‘sport’ in early Anglo-America, the formation of a sporting culture based on those elements was not inevitable,” Cohen’s book reads. “It was a purposeful choice, made largely by empowered white men, to construct sporting culture around traits that encouraged engagement within their ranks and helped to define them as a group despite internal class and ethnic divides.”
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A placard in the “Entertainment Nation” exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. honors Dr. Anthony Fauci.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)
Cohen’s colleague on the exhibit, curator Krystal Klingenberg, has similarly focused much of her scholarship on music, race, social justice and the Black Lives Matter movement.
For another Smithsonian project she worked on in 2022, Klingenberg stated that her goal was to “connect history with the ongoing fight for civil rights and social justice in American society.” Klingenberg lists “social justice” as one of her scholarly interests on her CV, alongside a number of scholarly projects related to it.
- The entrance to the Entertainment Nation exhibit in the Smithsonian’s National Museum for American History.(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)
- An exhibit in Entertainment Nation examining the history of American colonialism.(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)
- In this Entertainment Nation exhibit, curators rib Indiana Jones as a “stoic white male.”(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)
- Objects representing various progressive athletes, including a tie bearing the names of slain African Americans, are displayed at the National Museum of American History.(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)
- A National Museum of American History placard calling Alexander Hamilton a “flawed founding father” and praising Lin-Manuel Miranda for casting people of color to play the founding fathers.(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)
- A sign reading “I feel very proud to be Mexican” in the Entertainment Nation section of the National Museum of American History.(Robert Schmad/Fox News Digital)
- A placard in the “Entertainment Nation” exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. honors Dr. Anthony Fauci.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)
Among them are an academic discussion she facilitated dubbed “Black Lives Matter: Music, Race, and Justice,” a presentation on ethnomusicology she gave titled “American Hate: How Do We Respond?” and another talk she gave called “Teaching Race and Ethnicity Through Music: Intersectionality.”
Klingenberg also co-hosted the Collected podcast where she examined “why Black feminist critique remains crucial to understanding the times we are living in.”
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The “Entertainment Nation” exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)
All seven curators have, to varying degrees, examined race, gender, sexuality, inequality or identity in their academic or museum work.
Fox News Digital reached all seven curators and the Smithsonian for comment.
The current conservative crusade against the Smithsonian launched in March 2025 when President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to review the Smithsonian’s exhibits and programs.
Allegations of bias in Entertainment Nation drew renewed national attention in July amid a congressional hearing scrutinizing the National Museum of American History and the release of a 162-page White House report documenting what the administration described as evidence of ideological bias across the Smithsonian.
“American taxpayers should not be funding institutions that undermine our country or promote one-sided, divisive political narratives,” a White House official previously told Fox News Digital. “The Smithsonian Institution should present history in a way that is accurate, balanced and consistent with the values that make the United States of America exceptional.”
The White House official’s criticism followed reports in 2025 of displays within Entertainment Nation that allegedly used left-of-center language to portray America negatively.
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(From left to right) Krystal Klingenberg, John Troutman, Ashley Mayor and Theodore Gonzalves speak during an Entertainment Nation event in 2024. (YouTube/National Museum of American History)(YouTube/National Museum of American History)
These displays included a section that claimed circuses “expressed the colonial impulse to claim dominion over the world,” a placard arguing that Mickey Mouse’s “outsized facial features, white gloves and trickster temperament were vestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy,” and a placard describing Alexander Hamilton as an “influential and flawed founding father,” language the White House report criticized as unfairly diminishing him.
Some of the curators have publicly commented on their rationale behind procuring specific items for the exhibit.
Ryan Lintelman, another of Entertainment Nation’s curators, was instrumental in acquiring one of the iconic red costumes from the Hulu adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” according to an interview he gave to Variety. The dystopian novel written by feminist author Margaret Atwood depicts a world where America has become a totalitarian theocracy that strips females of their rights and forces fertile women, known as “Handmaids,” into reproductive servitude.
Lintelman stated that the costume’s importance to liberal protest movements motivated his work to acquire one for the Smithsonian.
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Demonstrators dressed as handmaidens from “The Handmaid’s Tale” take part in an anti-Trump protest marking one year since the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 5, 2025.(Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
“I believe that popular culture is a unique and accessible lens to introduce the museum’s audiences to complex narratives involving race, sexuality, gender, identity, representation, economics, migration, social change, and power,” he wrote for his Smithsonian biography.
The 2017 Women’s March, where the Handmaid’s costume featured prominently, was seen as one of the most important early expressions of resistance to the first Trump administration. Theodore Gonzalves, another Entertainment Nation curator, also cited the march approvingly in a 2018 essay praising Barbara Dane, a lifelong socialist and former Communist Party USA member.
Dane was an acclaimed folk musician who spent much of her career involved in left-wing politics, most notably defying the United States government by visiting Cuba while it was under the rule of dictator Fidel Castro. She went on to found a record label that produced songs praising communist figures such as Mao Zedong, calling him China’s “savior,” and Ho Chi Minh, actively supporting America’s enemy in the Vietnam War.
Gonzalves described Dane as “singing truth to power” and creating music that “reflected the stakes and the hopeful dreams of millions trying to make sense of a world dominated by superpowers with world-ending weaponry.”
Gonzalves, whose scholarship has examined historical abuses against Asian Americans, also uses the term “Filipinx” in his work – which is a gender-neutral term for Filipinos similar to the term “Latinx.”
Ashley Mayor, another Entertainment Nation curator who specializes in “Latinx and Afro-Latinx music and culture,” regularly shares posts from left-wing organizations on social media. Eric Jentsch, the seventh curator, has also written about race and racism in American sports history, Fox News Digital found.
In its July report, the White House charged that the Smithsonian “no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”
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