President Trump installed a reconstruction of a Christopher Columbus statue in the White House compound on Sunday morning, March 22. The move reinforces Trump’s proclamations to reinstate Columbus Day — despite its continued status as a federal holiday — and maintain the Genoese voyager’s identity as a point of pride for the Italian American community in spite of Columbus’s documented brutality toward Native people. The work is a replica of the a monuement that once stood in Baltimore’s Little Italy from 1984, when it was unveiled by President Ronald Reagan, until 2020, when protestors mobilizing around the killing of George Floyd toppled it over and dumped it in the Inner Harbor. Read rhea.nayyar’s full report through the link in bio. . . . Image courtesy White House staff via Italian Sons and Daughters of America #Monuments #Statues #WhiteHouse #DonaldTrump #ChristopherColumbus