The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. At this week’s much-anticipated one, members yielded to President Donald Trump’s demand for an audit of politicized content. Alas, they also circled the wagons around Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch.

The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to a document that summarized the secretive meeting held Monday, the board acceded to demands by Vice President JD Vance and Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) to hold a thorough review of content at the complex’s 21 museums. The board reluctantly accepted this review even on an expedited matter, though it wanted to give Bunch three months to conduct it.

“The board directed the secretary to assess content in museums and make needed changes to ensure unbiased content, including personnel changes,” a Smithsonian spokesman told the WSJ’s Natalie Andrews. “The board requested that the secretary report back on progress and suggested next steps.”

This was a victory for Trump, who, in March, issued an executive order that correctly noted that “over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” The president ordered the Smithsonian to “remove improper ideology........

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