Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, ousted from Washington's Holocaust Museum board

This is a new illustration of Donald Trump's desire to reclaim cultural institutions. Doug Emhoff, the husband of former US Vice President Kamala Harris, announced on Tuesday, April 29, that he had been ousted from the board of directors of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The board, which oversees the museum, is composed of 63 members, 55 of whom are appointed by the US president.

"Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized," Doug Emhoff, who has been married to the Democratic presidential candidate in November since 2014, said in a statement.

"Turning one of history's worst atrocities into a source of division is dangerous - and dishonors the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis, for whose preservation this museum was created," adds this lawyer, himself Jewish, on his Instagram account. In his largely honorary role as "Second Gentleman" - the first in the history of the United States - he had made the fight against anti-Semitism one of his priorities.

According to the New York Times , the Trump administration has also begun firing other officials appointed by Joe Biden to the council, including Ron Klain, the Democratic president's former chief of staff, and Susan Rice, national security adviser under Barack Obama.

In mid-February, Donald Trump had already decided to thank several members of the board of directors of the Kennedy Center, a cultural institution in Washington that he said he wanted to put back on the "right path" .

The Republican billionaire has banned shows he considers "shameful" to America from the capital's main concert hall, such as drag queen performances, and has appointed one of his loyalists, Richard Grenell, as interim director.

At the end of March, Donald Trump also signed an executive order aimed at regaining control over the content of the Smithsonian museums, Washington institutions accused by the president of conducting racial "ideological indoctrination."