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A statue of Christopher Columbus has been erected outside of an ornate federal office building on the White House grounds — the latest sign of the Trump administration's efforts to reshape cultural and historical representations across the nation's capital. https://cnn.it/4sxo6mQ

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"Discoverer of America" Who writes like that? Third graders? CC was totally the "Discoverer of America" - he just "discovered" it 15,000 to 20,000 years after people already moved in and thrived there.

Start listing the cost of all these visual optics placed at DJT’s direction and keep a running total of what the giant banners and gold ornate filigree, the arch de Trump, the loss of revenue & closing Kennedy center, weekend trips to MAL, and other things have cost the USA in waste fraud & abuse.

Why not Americo Vespuci who makes us feel 'American' with his name given to our nation? He should've been hugging Christoph Colomb, and don't forget that Christoph Colomb was serving to Spanian Latinos! Mr.President makes 'NO SENSE' AT ALL as usual!!

“I'm proud of you, Mom! You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people knew about before you” - Lisa Simpson (upon Marge discovering The Internet in 2007).

Christopher Columbus never landed in North America-he reached Cuba where he died and was buried before his bones were returned to Seville 100 years later….get some education people even if you don’t travel!!!!!

He died in Spain not Cuba. His body was moved around a bit and certainly was in Cuba until the Spanish American war in the 1890s. After the war his body was moved back to Spain and is now buried in Seville Cathedral.

...round face, smeared in makeup, animatronic tv veneers & lifeless eyes locked in a peer, head ablaze with howling hair, a child's grin, and a jokers sneer. With fat, soft fingers, and deft touch of a drooling toddler, the shiney object was released, erect, if not misplaced, into a rousing room...

Fitting: Columbus was characterized by extreme brutality, systematic exploitation, & acts of violence that decimated the indigenous Taíno nation. He was arrested and stripped of his governorship by the Spanish Crown, with contemporaries, such as Bartolomé de Las Casas, documenting horrific abuses.

On the white supremacy house grounds... He puts up a statue of Columbus because putting up a statue of Hitler or even Robert E Lee would be pushing it.

This is hilarious since Columbus never spoke English, primarily Spanish, why South America speaks this language. He never made it to North America or any state. He did make it for a short period to Puerto Rico, but had been ran off by the natives.

That'll be very easy to remove and destroy when the government changes. Trump is forcing his ideology and cultural preferences on America because he knows that once he's gone, everything goes with him.

Columbus didn't even discover America. On his first voyage he landed on the island of San Salvador, in the Bahamas. He enslaved the natives. Leif Erikson landed at Newfoundland around 1000 CE--the first European to set foot on the American continent.

L'Anse aux Meadows to be exact, however they aren’t sure if that’s the exact spot he landed, it’s just the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America confirmed at 1022ce, however the sagas suggest earlier arrival

His father Erik the Red sailed past the coastline but had another destination in mind and didn't land there. It's hard to tell what really happened way back then. But I think historians are pretty sure Columbus wasn't the first. 😉

Yea they assume from Mi'kma'ki (Mi'kmaq present day) stories and pictos Erik went as far inland as Toronto to south, and northern Manitoba via Hudson and Georgian bay And Columbus was def not the first, Cabot was the first recorded euro in North America Couple years after Columbus got lost

The National Debt is already at $39 trillion. Two more years to add to it. He lied about the tariffs lowering it. Just like he lies about everything.

What a twisted fucking headline to describe the fact that the united states is honouring a colonizing rapist. Y’all actually call this shit journalism??

I’m still waiting for the executive order to come out to direct education policy makers to direct school to teach that THE WORLD IS IN ACTUAL FACT FLAT!

Surprised with all of Trump's wars, abductions, his installations of gaudy gold ornamentation, ballrooms, ego coins with his portrait on them, raising prices and wrecking the economy, that he has the time to troll by planting a hideous statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds.