Trump Installs Divisive Replica Christopher Columbus Statue On White House Grounds
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The original statue was destroyed during the 2020 protests in the wake of Georgie Floyd's murder.
President Donald Trump has had a statue of Christopher Columbus installed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House after the original one was torn down and hurled into the Baltimore Harbor during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
The replica statue, installed late Sunday night, is the Trump administration’s latest effort to portray the Italian explorer as a hero, despite his legacy having come under increased scrutiny in recent years.
“In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero. And he will continue to be honored as such by President Trump,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to HuffPost via email.
Trump has embraced a traditional view of Columbus and his 1492 voyage to the Americas, which historians once described as the beginning of European colonialism in the so-called “New World.” Contemporary historians see Columbus as the catalyst for the mass slaughter and subjection of indigenous people in the Americas that took place over the next several centuries.
On July 4, 2020, demonstrators tore down the original statue and threw it into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor during protests against racial injustice in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin. It was one of several Columbus statues vandalized around the same time.
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