E whakaatu ana ngā īmēra i tae mai i ngā wā tata nei i whakaae ētahi o ngā kaituku takoha ki te tautoko i ngā whakaahua mana o Trump me te wahine tuatahi o mua a Melania Trump mō te Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, engari i te mutunga ka whakaae te Smithsonian ki te tango i te koha $650,000 a Trump ki te PAC Save America.
Ko te koha tēnei te wā tuatahi i roto i ngā mahara tata nei kua tautokohia e tētahi whakahaere tōrangapū ngā whakaahua o ngā perehitini o mua e te whare taonga, nā te mea ko ngā koha takitahi i tohua e te Smithsonian te nuinga o te wā ka utua. Ko te koha rerekē, i tukuna tuatahitia e Business Insider i te marama o Ākuhata, i puta ai hoki te whakahē a te marea ki te whare taonga, ā, i ruarua ai te tuakiri o tētahi atu kaituku i koha i tētahi atu koha $100,000 hei tautoko i ngā whakaahua i whakaritea e Citizens for Responsible and Ethical Washington. I arotakehia i te Mane e The Washington Post.
I te Rāhina, i kī anō a Linda St. Thomas, te kaikorero mō te Smithsonian Institution, ko te kaituku tuarua he "tangata whenua e hiahia ana kia noho ingoakore." I kī anō ia kua rite kē tētahi o ngā whakaahua, ā, "kei te mahi" tētahi atu.
Heoi, e ai ki ngā ture o te whare taonga, ki te tū anō tētahi perehitini o mua mō te tūranga perehitini, kāore e taea te tuku i tana whakaahua. Nō reira, kāore pea te whare taonga e whakaatu i ngā ingoa o ngā kaitoi e rua i karangatia tae noa ki te pōtitanga perehitini o te tau 2024, e ai ki te kōrero a St. Thomas ki te Post. Ki te toa a Trump i tēnei pōtitanga, ka whakaaturia noa ngā whakaahua i muri i tana wā tuarua, e ai ki ngā ture o te whare taonga.
"Kāore mātou e tuku i te ingoa o te kaitoi i mua i te whakatuwheratanga, ahakoa i taua wā ka rerekē pea nā te mea kua roa te wā," te kī a St. Thomas. Kei te whakaatuhia te whakaahua o Trump i te tau 2019 i tangohia e Pari Dukovic mō te maheni Time i te whakaaturanga "American Presidents" o te National Portrait Gallery i mua i te huraina o te whakaahua mana. E ai ki te Smithsonian Institution, ka tangohia wawetia te whakaahua mō ngā take tiaki.
E ai ki ngā īmēra, kua haere tonu ngā whiriwhiringa i waenganui i ngā āpiha o te whare taonga me Trump mō te whakaahua me tana putea mō ngā marama, mai i te tīmatanga o te tau 2021, i muri tata mai i te wehenga atu o Trump i te tari.
Kei roto i tētahi karere a Kim Saget, te kaiwhakahaere o te National Portrait Gallery, ki a Molly Michael, te kaiawhina matua o Trump i te tari poutapeta, te whakaahuatanga o te tukanga. I kī a Sadget ka whakaae, ka whakahē rānei a Trump i te peita i mua i te whakaaturanga. (I kōrero tētahi kaikorero mō te Smithsonian ki The Post i waea atu ngā kaimahi o te whare taonga ki te tīma a Trump i muri mai ki te whakamārama kāore ia e whiwhi i te whakaaetanga whakamutunga.)
"Ae, mēnā he whakaaro ā Mr. Trump mō ētahi atu kaitoi, ka mihi atu mātou ki aua whakaaro," te tuhituhi a Sadget ki a Michael i roto i tētahi īmēra i te 18 o Poutū-te-rangi, 2021. "Ko tā mātou whāinga he kimi i tētahi kaitoi, e ai ki te whakaaro o te whare taonga me te kaitiaki, ka waihanga i tētahi whakaahua pai mō te taiwhanga toi o ngā Perehitini o te Hononga o Amerika i runga i te wā pumau."
Tata ki te rua marama i muri mai, i kī atu a Sadget kei te kohi moni tūmataiti te National Portrait Gallery mō ngā whakaahua perehitini katoa, ā, i tono āwhina ia ki te kimi "hoa me ngā pā o te whānau Trump hei tautoko i ēnei kōmihana."
I te 28 o Mei, 2021, i tuhituhi a Saget ki a Michael, "Hei pupuri i te tawhiti whakaute i waenga i ō rātou oranga tūmataiti me ō rātou taonga tuku iho tūmatanui, kua whiriwhiria e mātou kia kaua e whakatata atu ki ngā mema o te whānau Trump, kia kaua hoki e whai wāhi ki tētahi o ngā pakihi a Trump."
Tata ki te wiki i muri mai, ka kōrero a Michael ki a Sadget kua "kitea e te tīma Trump ētahi kaituku moni, ā, hei takitahi, ka tuku moni katoa pea rātou."
"Ka tukuna atu e au ō mātou ingoa me ō mātou taipitopito whakapā i ngā rā e whai ake nei hei whakataurite i ō tātou whakaaro me te whakatau i te manakohanga whakamutunga a te perehitini," te tuhituhi a Michael.
I te wiki i muri mai, ka tukuna e Michael tētahi atu rārangi, engari i tangohia ngā ingoa mai i ngā īmēra tūmatanui i kitea e The Post. I tuhituhi a Michael "ka tāpirihia e ia ētahi atu tekau mā rua mēnā e tika ana".
Kāore i te mārama he aha te mea i tupu i muri i te kohi moni, ā, i arahi ai ki te whakatau ki te tango moni mai i te Trump PAC. E whakaatu ana ngā īmēra i puta ētahi o ngā kōrero mā te waea, i ngā hui mariko rānei.
I te marama o Hepetema 2021, i whakawhitiwhiti īmēra rāua mō te "wāhanga tuatahi" o te whakaahua. Kātahi, i te 17 o Pēpuere 2022, ka tukuna atu e Saget tētahi atu īmēra ki a Michael e whakamārama ana i te kaupapa here a te whare taonga mō ngā kohinga.
"Kāore he tangata ora e whakaaetia kia utu mō tōna ake āhua," te tuhituhi a Sajet, me te whakahua i te kaupapa here. "Ka taea e te NPG te whakapā atu ki te whānau, ki ngā hoa me ngā hoa o te kaitiaki hei utu i ngā utu o te tono i te whakaahua, engari me ārahi te NPG i ngā whiriwhiringa, ā, kāore te rōpū i karangatia e whai pānga ki te whiriwhiringa me te utu a te kaitoi."
I te 8 o Poutū-te-rangi, 2022, i pātai a Saget ki a Michael mēnā ka taea e ia te tuku mai i ngā whakahōutanga mā te waea mai i te hunga kua whakaatu i tō rātou hiahia ki te tautoko i ngā mahi a te whare taonga.
"Kei te tīmata mātou ki te whakapau i ngā utu e tika ana kia utua, ā, kei te titiro mātou ki te whakatata atu ki te kohi moni mā te kaupapa," te tuhituhi a Sajet.
Whai muri i te whakarite i tētahi waea mā roto i ētahi īmēra, i tuhituhi a Michael ki a Saget i te 25 o Poutū-te-rangi, 2022, me te kī "ko te hoapā pai rawa atu hei haere tonu i ā mātou kōrero" ko Susie Wiles, he kaitohutohu tōrangapū Republican i muri mai ka whakaingoatia ko ia te kaitohutohu matua a Trump i te tau 2024. – te kaupapa pōti.
I roto i tētahi reta i te 11 o Mei, 2022, i runga i te pane reta a Smithsonian, i tuhituhi ngā āpiha whare taonga ki te Kaiwhakahaere Moni o te PCC a Save America, a Bradley Clutter, e mihi ana ki "te oati atawhai a te whakahaere tōrangapū i te $650,000" hei tautoko i te Trump Portrait Commission.
"Hei whakamihi i tēnei tautoko atawhai, ka whakaatuhia e te Smithsonian Institution ngā kupu 'Save America' ki ngā tapanga o ngā taonga e whakaatuhia ana me te whakaahua i te wā o te whakaaturanga, me te taha o te ahua o te whakaahua i te paetukutuku NPG," te tuhituhi a te whare taonga.
I kī atu rātou ka karangatia hoki e PAC Save America te 10 manuhiri ki te whakaaturanga, ā, ka whai ake ko te mātakitaki whakaahua motuhake mō te rima manuhiri.
I te 20 o Hūrae, 2022, i īmēra atu a Wiles ki a Usha Subramanian, te kaiwhakahaere whanaketanga i te National Portrait Gallery, he kape o te whakaaetanga kua hainatia.
E ai ki te whare taonga i tērā tau, ka utua te komihana $750,000 mō ngā whakaahua e rua o Trump e te koha a te Save America PAC, me tētahi atu koha tūmataiti $100,000 mai i tētahi kaituku tūmataiti kāore i te whakahuatia te ingoa.
Ahakoa he mea rerekē, he ture ngā koha nā te mea ko Save America te PAC whakahaere, me te iti o ngā here mō te whakamahinga o āna moni. Haunga te whakatairanga i ngā kaitono whakaaro rite, ka taea te whakamahi i aua PAC hei utu i ngā kaitohutohu, hei utu i ngā whakapaunga haere me ngā whakapaunga ture, me ētahi atu whakapaunga. Ko te nuinga o te pūtea a Trump GAC i ahu mai i ngā kaituku iti e whakautu ana ki ngā īmēra me ētahi atu pātai.
Kāore ngā māngai o Trump i pai ki te tuku kōrero. I te Tūrei, i kōrero te kaikorero mō Smithsonian Institution, a Concetta Duncan, ki The Post, e wehea ana te komiti mahi tōrangapū a Trump e te whare taonga mai i tōna whānau me tana pakihi.
"Nā te mea ko te PAC te puna kaitautoko, e koa ana te Portrait Gallery ki te tango i ēnei pūtea nā te mea kāore e pā ki te kōwhiringa o ngā kaitoi, ki te uara rānei o te whare mahi tahi," tana i tuhituhi ai i roto i tētahi īmēra.
I pāngia te whare taonga e te whakahē whai muri i te whakatakotoranga o te koha i te tau kua hipa. I roto i tētahi īmēra i te marama o Ākuhata kua hipa, i kohia e te kaitātari pāpāho pāpori o Smithsonian ngā tweets mai i ngā kaiwhakamahi i pouri mō te panuitanga o te koha.
"Ko te tikanga, kāore te iwi e mōhio kei a tātou ngā whakaahua o ngā perehitini katoa," te tuhituhi a te tohunga rautaki pāpāho pāpori a Erin Blascoe. "I pouri rātou i te kitenga i te ahua o Trump, engari he tokomaha anō hoki i pouri i te whakaaro he 'koha', inā koa i muri i te whakahē i ā rātou tikanga kohi moni."
Kei roto hoki i te kete he kape o tētahi reta i tuhia ā-ringa e tētahi kaitautoko i pouri, nāna i kī he rite tōna pakeke ki te perehitini o mua, ā, i tono ki te whare taonga kia kaua e whakaatuhia te whakaahua o Trump.
"Tena koa, kia mutu rā anō ngā rangahau a te DOJ me te FBI," te tuhituhi a te kaitautoko. "I whakamahia e ia tō tātou Whare White utu nui ki te mahi hara."
I taua wā, i kī atu a Hato Tāmati ki ōna hoa mahi whare taonga, ki tāna whakaaro ko te hunga whakahē he "pito noa iho o te hukapapa".
"Pānuihia te tuhinga," i tuhituhi ia i roto i tētahi īmēra. "Kei reira ētahi atu mea e tukuna ana e te PAC. Kei reira mātou."
Ahakoa i whakatūria te National Portrait Gallery e te Runanga i te tau 1962, kāore i tonoa ngā perehitini e wehe atu ana tae noa ki te tau 1994, i te wā i peitahia ai e Ronald Sherr te whakaahua o George W. Bush.
I ngā wā o mua, i tautokona ngā whakaahua e ngā koha tūmataiti, he maha ngā wā mai i ngā kaitautoko o te kāwanatanga e wehe ana. Neke atu i te 200 ngā kaituku, tae atu ki a Steven Spielberg, John Legend me Chrissy Teigen, i takoha ki te komihana $750,000 mō ngā whakaahua o Obama nā Kehinde Wiley rāua ko Amy Sherald. Kāore te PKK i roto i te rārangi o ngā kaituku whakaahua o Obama rāua ko Bush.