The fired National Portrait Gallery Director, Kim Sajet, had an extensive record of anti-Trump biases and politicization of her role before President Trump canned her last week, a White House official revealed to The Gateway Pundit.
Sajet is also a member of the World Economic Forum, led by globalist Klaus Schwab.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump fired Sajet as the Director of the National Portrait Gallery last week. “She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position,” he said on Truth Social last Friday.
President Trump Abruptly Fires Director of the National Portrait Gallery… ‘Highly Partisan Person and Strong Supporter of DEI’
A White House official pointed to some of Sajet’s previous statements and writings where she embraced DEI, Black Lives Matter, and anti-racism as examples of why she was removed.
Here are some examples:
- During a 2018 speech, Sajet said, “the ‘portrait of America’ has never been only about meritocracy but also social access, racial inequality, gender difference, religious preference and political power.” She further described Columbus Day as “a day of Indigenous lamentation,” adding, “We need to remember that we did not ‘find’ a ‘New World’ but invaded an old one, we aren’t just a world leader but a global participant.”
- “We owe it to Americans to reflect them because we owe it to accurate history,” she told The London List in a piece titled “Art (World) and Racism” with regard to inclusivity in the Portrait Gallery. “I’m not interested in only having a museum for some people.”
- In a 2022 New York Times interview, Sajet said the historical record of portraits and busts was too limited to “the wealthy, the pale and the male” as the Portrait Gallery staged events focused on immigration and illegal border crossing, racial identity, and Black women’s labor.
- In 2020, Sajet explained a competition, where the National Portrait Gallery asks artists “to send us their best images of people that they are looking at and talking about and have a relationship with in their communities,” she said. According to Culture Type, “Many of the portraits depict black subjects or make reference to the Black Lives Matter movement and related racial violence and racial justice issues.”
- According to a 2019 USA Today story titled, “Art so white: Black artists want representation (beyond slavery) in the Met, National Gallery,” Sajet led an effort to divert 50% of all money spent on art to diversify the artists and portrait subjects immediately after joining the Gallery as Director, and she criticized how white men dominated famous portraits.
- During President Trump’s first term, Sajet drew comparisons between the Civil Rights Era in 1968 and the present day of 2018. “Whether it’s MeToo or the Black Lives Matter…there was a sense at that time — that I think we can see now — of young people stepping forward and saying, ‘We want something different, we want a change, we want to be part of the conversation,’ and I think that is tremendously interesting,” she said. “We continue to have conversations about our electoral process and how women in politics are faring.”
- In 2022, Sajet referred to George Floyd’s death as a “murder” in a statement to Vanity Fair.
- In a 2018 blog post, Sajet criticized the “paucity of portraits of women who were not the daughters, wives, or mistresses of famous men, racial minorities, non-Christians, LBGTQ, and the visibly disabled” found in Western museum collections. She also called for “more pointed conversations about how communities can provide people with every opportunity to become successful, so that future generations will truly see themselves on the walls of our museums.”
- In 2015, Sajet boasted that she installed a portrait of Trump-hater Katy Perry in the National Portrait Gallery, saying, “We do have Katy Perry with a tiara—and nothing befits a woman more than a tiara. But she’s here because of her accomplishments.”
Her X account is likewise riddled with praise for Black Lives Matter, transgenders, DEI, and identity politics. On social media, she is also seen posing with or praising the likes of Anderson Cooper and Dana Bash, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, Anthony Fauci, and Oprah.
Additionally, the official pointed to Sajet’s FEC contributions, which show she donated nearly $4,000 to Democrats and leftwing causes, including Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Emily’s List, as well as her anti-Trump bias in the Gallery’s photo that she curated.
The caption on Trump’s National Portrait Gallery photo reads, “Impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, he was acquitted by the Senate in both trials. After losing to Joe Biden in 2020, Trump mounted a historic comeback in the 2024 election. He is the only president aside from Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) to have won a nonconsecutive second term.”
“Ironically, Sajet said ‘We try very much not to editorialise. I don’t want by reading the label to get a sense of what the curator’s opinion is about that person. I want someone reading the label to understand that it’s based on historical fact,'” they noted.
Since firing the Trump-hating leftist from her role as Director, the White House has unveiled a new official presidential portrait on display in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
NEW OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT JUST DROPPED pic.twitter.com/mmDIGRRJNi
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 2, 2025
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