How Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch’s Lunch With Trump Actually Went Down

The Smithsonian Institution, and its Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, have been under pressure for well over a year, with President Donald Trump and his administration trying a variety of tactics to compel the Institution to change its framing or approach to US History. That campaign reached its highest flashpoint last summer when Bunch and the president sat for a two-and-a-half hour lunch over their differing views on museum curation.Now, in a profile of Bunch for the Atlantic, writer Clint Smith