Vice President JD Vance and the Second Lady visited an American military base on the northwest coast of Greenland on Friday, meeting with troops, but the trip was scaled back due to the lack of an official invitation.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian Institution — which has, he contends, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology.” Critics have pushed back, saying the order is an attempt to whitewash American history.

Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, scolded the Trump administration's rhetoric, taking issue with its “tone” while emphasizing a commitment to Arctic security and cooperation with the U.S.

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The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” directs Vice President JD Vance to remove “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums and the National Zoo ...

Trump to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to ‘restore truth and sanity to American history’

He signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and ...

Current and former members of the Smithsonian’s board of regents condemned the edict, while visitors said the Trump administration was trying to edit U.S. history.