A museum director said he was fired after refusing to give President Donald Trump a sword from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s collection, The New York Times reported Thursday.Trump had intended to give the sword to King Charles during his state visit to the U.K. recently, but settled for a replica, according to the Times. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas, denied an administration representative’s email request for the sword, the Times wrote. The museum said it, and all other artifacts there, were the property of the U.S. government and were preserved for the American public.This week, the director of the museum honoring Eisenhower, the only five-star general to become president, was ousted.“I never imagined that I would be fired from almost 30 years of government service for this,” Todd Arrington told the Times.Arrington said his direct supervisor delivered the news that he’d be asked to resign and that the order came from higher-ups, KCUR reported.Todd Arrington, who was appointed director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in August 2024, said he was pressured to resign.National Archives and Records AdministrationArrington told CBS that officials accused him of breaching trust. “Apparently, they believed I could no longer be trusted with confidential information,” he said, referring to “the sword” and an unrelated matter. One administration official told CBS he thought Arrington had criticized the president and the administration, which Arrington denied. U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received Napoleon's sword from French Gen. Charles De Gaulle on June 16, 1945. It is unclear which sword the Trump administration requested from the Eisenhower museum.via Associated PressTrump has pushed to acquire other historical items before. It was reported earlier this year that he sought to have the actual Declaration of Independence moved from the National Archives Building into the Oval Office, but common sense prevailed. He also has longstanding beef with the National Archives because the institution alerted the FBI that Trump didn’t return classified documents from his first term, prompting the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Shortly after retaking office, Trump terminated the archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan, and replaced her with Marco Rubio, who is acting archivist while also serving as U.S. secretary of state. Shogan announced Arrington’s hiring in August 2024.“Todd Arrington’s dedication to historic preservation and public engagement is unparalleled,” she said. The National Archives did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment on Arrington’s firing.Trump, right, visited King Charles last month — apparently without the sword the president wanted.Chris Jackson via Getty ImagesClose