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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Trump announces sudden firing of museum director Kim Sajet in baffling Truth Social post
President Trump has announced that he has fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery Kim Sajet. In a post to his Truth Social, the president said: 'Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery. 'She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position. 'Her replacement will be named shortly. Thank you for your attention to this matter!' Sajet, a Dutch citizen raised in Australia, was appointed to the post in 2013 by President Barack Obama. She had previously served as president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Trump has repeatedly criticized the national network of museums and cultural centers as leftist and anti-American. Earlier this spring, he ousted the leadership of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, dismissing the chairman and president and replacing most of the board with loyalists, who then voted Trump the new chairman. It is not immediately clear if the president has the power to dismiss the gallery's director. The gallery, founded by Congress in 1962, operates under the Smithsonian Institution which in turn is funded through a mix of private and public money. Federal funding makes up 62 percent of its backing, according to its website.
Washington Post
4 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, whom he called 'highly partisan.' The dismissal marks the first action Trump has taken against the Smithsonian Institution since an executive order he signed earlier this year that promised to eliminate 'divisive narratives' and 'anti-American ideology' from the museum and research body, which is partially funded by the federal government.
