Trump told off for trying to give King Charles a historic sword from a museum
Donald Trump shaking hands with the King during his state visit to the UK last month (Picture: Reuters)
A museum director was forced to resign after telling Donald Trump he could not present King Charles with a historic sword from its collection.
Todd Arrington resigned as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas after being given an ultimatum by the Trump administration for refusing to release the artifact.
Trump had requested a sword to gift to the monarch during his state visit last month, but was told that he couldn’t have any ‘museum artifacts’.
Mr Arrington explained: ‘They asked for a sword and we said, “well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts”.’
There are around a dozen museums dedicated to former presidents across the US, with their collections belonging to ‘the American people’.
Mr Arrington, who has nearly 30 years experience working in government, worked with officials to find a replacement: a replica Eisenhower sword from the United States Military Academy.
Todd Arrington was given an ultimatum by the Trump administration after his museum refused to release the historic sword as a gift to the King (Picture: US National Archives)
He said that it ‘felt very good’ to have found a resolution, calling it the ‘feather in our cap’ to have helped find a present for the King.
But the director, who took up the role in August last year, was since told he would have to either ‘resign or be fired’ as he could no longer be ‘trusted with confidential information’.
He told the Kansas News Service that he was ‘shocked, saddened and heartbroken’ to be suddenly dismissed.
‘I’ve never had a bad mark against me’, he added.
Despite his removal, the former director held hope of returning to the library and said he would like to continue working for the government.
It comes as four of the library’s employees were sacked in February as part of savings by the Trump administration’s DOGE unit, championed by Elon Musk.
Both the museum and the White House were unavailable for comment on the issue due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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