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President Donald TrumpIssued a new executive order on Friday requiring warning signs to be installed outside the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

The order, intended to inform visitors that the institution has been influenced by liberal “ideological control” and presents “inaccurate” perspectives on American history that the Trump administration does not support, sparked immediate backlash from social media users.

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Trump significantly intensifies his criticism of the Smithsonian,wroteReporter Maggie Haberman from the New York Times.

Trump has instructed for warning signs and displays to be placed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, informing the public that, according to him, the museum does not properly represent American history.wroteMS NOW “Weeknight” executive producer Kyle Griffin said, “For the record: It does.”

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This is among the most foolish and strange Executive Orders we have ever come across,wroteRep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) stated, “It’s evident that this Administration is attempting to exert excessive executive power over our country’s independent cultural organizations. This executive order represents a blatant political overreach, motivated by an ideological plan to alter American history. Our Smithsonian institutions are not the President’s property, but rather belong to the American people, just as our nation’s history does.”

This EO should be named: ‘Time to destroy the Smithsonian as I did the Kennedy Center’wrote Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR).

This executive order from the Smithsonian is remarkably feeble and childish,wroteReporter Dan Friedman from Mother Jones stated, “Trump is unable or unwilling to instruct the Smithsonian American History Museum to alter their displays to promote the propaganda he desires, so he is directing the NPS to place signs outside that criticize the museum.”

I believed choosing Trump would mean an end to trigger warnings and safe spaces,wrote independent journalist Mike Rothschild.

“Trump’s absurdities are boundless,” wroteformer president of Missouri State University, Mike Nietzel.