Earlier this week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order restricting the use of racial sensitivity training for government contractors. In the lengthy statement, alongside examples of training from various companies, the White House calls out a graphic that was temporarily published by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The president’s order bans trainings the president says “indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies” for government contractors. It’s part of ongoing White House critiques of critical race theory — a framework for examining the ways racism manifests in society.

The order, which was issued Tuesday, references language and graphics that had been published on the NMAAHC’s education portal this summer, but were removed later in the summer. Journalist Kriston Capps pointed out the mention Wednesday on Twitter.

From the order:

A Smithsonian Institution museum graphic recently claimed that concepts like “[o]bjective, rational linear thinking,” “[h]ard work” being “the key to success,” the “nuclear family,” and belief in a single god are not values that unite Americans of all races but are instead “aspects and assumptions of whiteness.” The museum also stated that “[f]acing your whiteness is hard and can result in feelings of guilt, sadness, confusion, defensiveness, or fear.”

The graphic, titled Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness and White Culture in the United States, appeared in the NMAAHC’s Talking About Race portal, on a page about whiteness. “Since white people in America hold most of the political, institutional, and economic power, they receive advantages that nonwhite groups do not,” the page says, defining the concept of white privilege.

The museum launched the Talking About Race portal early this summer, at the outset of nationwide protests for racial justice after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At the time, demand for antiracist texts was overwhelming local libraries and bookstores.

“There’s a moment of possibility and change, and this a resource for thinking in different ways, acting in different ways,” Candra Flanagan, NMAAHC’s director of teaching and learning, told the Washington Post at the time.

The infographic in question explores several aspects of American life that it claims are reflections of white privilege, including holidays based on Christian religious traditions, a family structure in which the husband is the breadwinner and head of the household, and history with a heavy emphasis on the Northern European immigrant experience and the British Empire. (You can see an archived version of the graphic here.)

Conservative figures were quick to criticize the graphic at the time. Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that it was an example of how “[Presidential candidate Joe] Biden’s radicals aren’t coming for ‘whites,’ they’re coming for the entire American way of life.” Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called it an “anti-whiteness display” on his show.

The Smithsonian removed the graphic from the site in mid-July “because it detracted from our initial purpose: to encourage candid conversations about race and provide increased understanding,” the Smithsonian said at the time. A Smithsonian spokesperson said the graphic was “dated and not helpful” and referred to the earlier statement when reached for comment.

The president’s order says the message “is contrary to the fundamental premises underpinning our Republic.” Trump also mentioned the graphic in a speech last week, calling it “offensive and outrageous.”

The NMAAHC credits the chart’s data to author and educator Judith Katz and her 1990 book White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training. 

“[The chart] represents one person’s work over time exploring how white people in America view their culture,” the museum’s July statement continued. “The chart, summary, and use of this particular research were never meant to judge or suggest that any one individual, race, or community has those characteristics.”

When Trump toured the NMAAHC before taking office, Trump’s aides reportedly told then-museum director and current Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch the president-elect didn’t want to see anything “difficult.”

Trump has further stoked racial tensions in a summer of reckoning and protest. Apart from criticizing protesters, he has raised a historically racist argument about protecting American suburbs by keeping low-income housing out of them. Earlier this month, President Trump said the Department of Education would investigate schools’ use of the New York Times’ Pulitzer-winning 1619 Project, though, as NPR notes, “the federal government does not have jurisdiction over school curriculum.”