The White House installed a Christopher Columbus statue on the grounds, built from the one destroyed in Baltimore in 2020.
The statue sits outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
“In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero, and President Trump will ensure he’s honored as such for generations to come,” stated Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman.
According to The New York Post, the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations commissioned the statue, “and is part of the White House’s celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.”
“We are delighted the statue has found a place where it can peacefully shine and be protected,” said John Pica, a Maryland lobbyist and president of the Italian American Organizations United, reported by the Associated Press.
The far-left targeted Columbus in 2020 over George Floyd:
Many of the monuments celebrating the explorer, including the one that was once in Baltimore, were donated by Italian American groups in the 19th and 20th centuries. President Ronald Reagan spoke at the dedication ceremony for Baltimore’s statue in 1984.On Independence Day in 2020, protesters pulled down that statue with ropes and threw it into the harbor. Upset by the statue’s destruction, Tilghman Hemsley, a local painter, sculptor and fisherman, assembled a team of divers to retrieve it. His son, Will Hemsley, then used scans of the salvaged pieces to create a replica — a project that received $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities during Mr. Trump’s first term.
“This is Columbus making his comeback from the darkest days that existed five to six years ago,” boasted Basil Russo, the leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations.
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