Maemail akagamuchirwa nguva pfupi yadarika anoratidza kuti vamwe vanopa mari vaida kupa mari yepamutemo mifananidzo yaTrump neaimbove mudzimai wekutanga Melania Trump yeSmithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, asi Smithsonian akazobvuma kugamuchira chipo chaTrump chemadhora zviuru mazana matanhatu nemakumi mashanu kuPAC Save America.
Chipo ichi chinova kekutanga munguva pfupi yapfuura kuti sangano rezvematongerwo enyika ripe mari yemifananidzo yemamyuziyamu evaimbova vatungamiriri, sezvo inowanzo kubhadharwa nevanopa mari vakanyoreswa neSmithsonian. Chipo ichi chisingawanzoitiki, chakatanga kutaurwa neBusiness Insider muna Nyamavhuvhu, chakakonzerawo kusawirirana kwevanhu pamusoro pemuseum uye chakakonzera kusava nechokwadi nezvekuzivikanwa kwemupi wechipiri akapa chipo chekuwedzera chemadhora zana emadhora ekutsigira mifananidzo yakarongwa neCitizens for Responsible and Ethical Washington. chakaongororwa neMuvhuro neThe Washington Post.
Mutauriri weSmithsonian Institution, Linda St. Thomas, akadzokorora neMuvhuro kuti mupi wechipiri aive "mugari wemuno anoda kusazivikanwa." Akataurawo kuti mumwe wemifananidzo yacho watogadzirwa, uye mumwe wacho "uri kushanda."
Zvisinei, mitemo yemiziyamu inoti kana aimbove purezidhendi achikwikwidza zvakare pachigaro chemutungamiri wenyika, mufananidzo wake haugone kuburitswa. Nekuda kweizvozvo, muziyamu inogona kusaburitsa mazita evaimbi vaviri vakakokwa kusvika pasarudzo yemutungamiri wenyika ya2024, St. Thomas akaudza Post. Kana Trump akakunda musarudzo iyi, mifananidzo yacho icharatidzwa chete mushure metemu yake yechipiri, zvichienderana nemitemo yemiziyamu.
“Hatiburitse zita remuimbi uyu tisati tavhura, kunyange hazvo zvakadaro zvinogona kuchinja nekuti nguva yakawanda yapfuura,” akadaro St. Thomas. Mufananidzo waTrump wa2019 wakatorwa naPari Dukovic wemagazini yeTime uri kuratidzwa kwenguva pfupi paNational Portrait Gallery we“American Presidents” mufananidzo wepamutemo usati waburitswa pachena. Sekureva kweSmithsonian Institution, mufananidzo uyu uchabviswa munguva pfupi nekuda kwezvikonzero zvekuchengetedza.
Kukurukurirana pakati pevakuru vemuseum naTrump pamusoro pemufananidzo uyu nemari yawakapihwa kwave kuchienderera mberi kwemwedzi yakati wandei, kutanga kutanga kwa2021, nguva pfupi Trump abva pachigaro, maemail anoratidza.
Maitiro acho anotsanangurwa mumeseji yaKim Saget, director weNational Portrait Gallery, kuna Molly Michael, mubatsiri mukuru waTrump papositi. Sadget akataura kuti Trump aizozobvumidza kana kusafarira mufananidzo uyu usati waiswa pachena. (Mutauriri weSmithsonian akaudza The Post kuti vashandi vemumyuziyamu vakazofonera timu yaTrump kuti vatsanangure kuti aisazowana mvumo yekupedzisira.)
"Ehe, kana VaTrump vaine mazano evamwe vaimbi, tinogamuchira mazano iwayo," Sadget akanyorera Michael muemail yaKurume 18, 2021. "Chinangwa chedu chaive chekutsvaga muimbi uyo, maererano nemaonero emuseum nemuchengeti, aizogadzira mufananidzo wakanaka wegarari yeVatungamiriri veUnited States zvachose."
Mwedzi miviri gare gare, Sadget akataurawo kuti National Portrait Gallery yakanga ichiunganidza mari yekutenga mifananidzo yese yemutungamiri wenyika uye yakakumbira rubatsiro rwekutsvaga "shamwari nevateveri vemhuri yaTrump vanogona kutsigira makomisheni aya."
Musi wa28 Chivabvu 2021, Saget akanyorera Michael achiti, “Kuti tirambe tiine runyararo pakati pehupenyu hwavo hwepachivande nenhaka yavo yeruzhinji, tinosarudza kusataura nevemhuri yaTrump kana kupa mari kune chero bhizinesi raTrump.”
Vhiki imwe chete gare gare, Michael akaudza Sadget kuti timu yaTrump yakanga "yawana vapei vakati wandei avo, sevanhu, vangangopa zvizere."
"Ndichatumira mazita neruzivo rwevanhu vekutaura navo mumazuva mashoma anotevera kuti tigadzirise zvinhu zvedu uye kuti tizive kuti mutungamiri wenyika ndiye anosarudza chii," Michael akanyora kudaro.
Vhiki imwe chete gare gare, Michael akatumira rumwe runyorwa, asi mazita acho akabviswa mumaemail everuzhinji akaonekwa neThe Post. Michael akanyora kuti "achazowana mamwe gumi nemaviri kana zvichidikanwa".
Hazvina kujeka kuti chii chakaitika panyaya yekuunganidza mari mushure meizvozvo uye zvakaita kuti vasarudze kugamuchira mari kubva kuTrump PAC. Maemail aya anoratidza kuti dzimwe hurukuro dzakaitwa pafoni kana panguva yemisangano yepaindaneti.
MunaGunyana 2021, vakatumirana maemail nezve "chikamu chekutanga" chemufananidzo. Zvadaro, musi wa17 Kukadzi 2022, Saget akatumira imwe email kuna Michael achitsanangura mutemo wemuseum pamusoro pekuunganidza zvinhu.
"Hapana munhu mupenyu anotenderwa kubhadhara mufananidzo wake," Sajet akanyora, achidzokorora mutemo uyu. "NPG inogona kubata mhuri yemuchengeti, shamwari nevaanozivana navo kuti vabhadhare mari yekutumira mufananidzo uyu, chero bedzi NPG ichitungamira mukukurukurirana uye boka rakakokwa risingakanganisi sarudzo yemuimbi kana mutengo."
Musi wa8 Kurume, 2022, Saget akabvunza Michael kana aigona kugovana ruzivo rutsva kubva kune avo vakaratidza kufarira kutsigira basa remuseum.
"Tava kutanga kushandisa mari dzinoda kubhadharwa uye tiri kutsvaga kuswedera pedyo nekutsvaga mari kuburikidza nechirongwa ichi," Sajet akanyora.
Mushure mekuronga runhare kuburikidza nemaemail akati wandei, Michael akanyorera Saget musi wa25 Kurume, 2022, achiti "munhu akanakisa wekutaura naye kuti tirambe tichikurukura" ndiSusie Wiles, chipangamazano wezvematongerwo enyika weRepublican uyo akazosarudzwa kuva chipangamazano mukuru waTrump muna 2024. - mushandirapamwe wesarudzo.
Mutsamba yakanyorwa musi wa11 Chivabvu 2022, yakanyorwa paSmithsonian letterhead, vakuru vemuseum vakanyorera Bradley Clutter, Mubati weMari weSave America PCC, vachibvuma "chipikirwa chesangano rezvematongerwo enyika chemadhora zviuru mazana matanhatu nemakumi mashanu" chekutsigira Trump Portrait Commission.
"Mukucherechedza rutsigiro urwu rukuru, Smithsonian Institution icharatidza mazwi ekuti 'Save America' pamapepa ezvinhu zvinoratidzwa nemufananidzo panguva yekuratidzwa uye padivi pemufananidzo wemufananidzo uri pawebhusaiti yeNPG," yakanyora miziyamu.
Vakawedzera kuti PAC Save America ichakokawo vaenzi gumi kumusangano uyu, zvichiteverwa nekuona vaenzi vanosvika vashanu.
Musi wa20 Chikunguru 2022, Wiles akatumira email kuna Usha Subramanian, director we development kuNational Portrait Gallery, achimupa kopi yechibvumirano chakasainwa.
Mari inosvika $750,000 yemifananidzo miviri yaTrump ichabhadharwa nemupiro weSave America PAC uye chipo chechipiri che $100,000 kubva kune mumwe mupi asina kutaurwa zita rake, museum yakadaro gore rapfuura.
Kunyangwe zvisingawanzoitiki, mipiro iri pamutemo nekuti Save America ndiyo PAC iri kutonga, ine zvirambidzo zvishoma pakushandiswa kwemari yayo. MaPAC akadaro, pamusoro pekusimudzira vanhu vane pfungwa dzakafanana, anogona kushandiswa kubhadhara vanopa mazano, kubhadhara mari dzekufambisa nedzematare, pakati pezvimwe zvinoshandiswa. Ruzhinji rwemari yaTrump GAC runobva kuvapi vemari vadiki vanopindura maemail nemimwe mibvunzo.
Vamiriri vaTrump vakaramba kutaura. NeChipiri, mutauriri weSmithsonian Institution Concetta Duncan akaudza The Post kuti miziyamu iyi inoparadzanisa komiti yezvematongerwo enyika yaTrump nemhuri yake nebhizinesi rake.
"Nekuti PAC inomiririra boka revanhu vanotsigira, Portrait Gallery inofara kugamuchira mari iyi sezvo isingakanganisi kusarudzwa kwevaimbi kana kukosha kwesangano iri," akanyora kudaro mu email.
Musiyamu iyi yakatarisana nekutsoropodzwa mushure mekunge chipo ichi chaziviswa pachena gore rapfuura. Muemail yakanyorerwa Nyamavhuvhu gore rapera, nyanzvi yezvemitemo yeSmithsonian yakaunganidza matweets kubva kuvashandisi vakagumbuka nechiziviso chemupiro uyu.
“Ehe vanhu havaonekwe kuti tine mifananidzo yemapurezidhendi ese,” akanyora kudaro nyanzvi yezvemagariro evanhu Erin Blascoe. “Vakagumbuka kuti takawana mufananidzo waTrump, asi paivewo nevanhu vazhinji vakagumbuka kuti zvaionekwa se 'mupiro', kunyanya mushure mekutsoropodza nzira dzavo dzekutsvaga mari.”
Zvakare pane kopi yetsamba yakanyorwa nemaoko kubva kune mumwe munhu akaora mwoyo uyo akati aive wezera rimwe chete neaimbova purezidhendi uye akakumbira miziyamu kuti isaratidze mufananidzo waTrump.
"Ndapota, kusvika kuferefeta kweDOJ neFBI kwapera," akadaro mumwe wevatsigiri. "Akashandisa White House yedu inokosha kuita mhosva."
Panguva iyoyo, St. Thomas akaudza vamwe vake vekumuseum kuti aiona vanopikisa se "chikamu chepasi pemvura".
“Verenga chinyorwa,” akanyora kudaro mu email. “Vanonyora zvimwe zvinhu zvinopihwa nePAC. Tiripo.”
Kunyangwe National Portrait Gallery yakagadzirwa neCongress muna 1962, haina kugadza vatungamiriri vakasiya basa kusvika muna 1994, apo Ronald Sherr akapenda mufananidzo waGeorge W. Bush.
Kare, mifananidzo yaitsigirwa nemari yezvipo zvepachivande, kazhinji kubva kuvatsigiri vehurumende iri kusiya basa. Vanhu vanopfuura mazana maviri vanopa zvipo, kusanganisira Steven Spielberg, John Legend naChrissy Teigen, vakapa mari inosvika $750,000 yekupa mifananidzo yaObama naKehinde Wiley naAmy Sherald. Rondedzero yevanopa mifananidzo yaObama naBush haisanganisire PKK.