Inside the Battle for The Smithsonian

With The Smithsonian in turmoil, Trump summoned Bunch to lunch at the White House in late August. Neither man immediately said what had been discussed, but a White House official told reporters the get-together was “productive and cordial.”

In his second term, Trump had been in office for less than a month when he took over the Kennedy Center, a move that its leaders claimed they were helpless to counter because of an obscure court ruling years earlier that had set precedent for…