US EditionTrump plans to install Christopher Columbus statue outside White House: Report
President Trump plans to install a rebuilt Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds and revealed a $400 million ballroom expansion funded by private donations.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump released a public rendering of the White House ballroom and plans to install a reconstructed Christopher Columbus statue.
- In summer 2020, Italian American businessmen recovered and rebuilt the statue after it was dumped into Baltimore's harbor, according to three sources.
- The latest estimate is $400 million for the expansion, which includes a 22,000-square-foot ballroom seating 1,000 people, fully funded by private donations; the White House executive mansion is 55,000 square feet.
- White House spokesman Davis Ingle said `In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero` and declined to comment further, supporting Trump's continued honoring of him.
- The statue's 2020 removal by Black Lives Matter protesters and its dumping into Baltimore's harbor highlight its contentious status, while private restoration donors spent more than $100,000 honoring Italian immigrants.
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Trump moving toward Christopher Columbus statue installation on White House grounds
The Trump administration is moving toward installing a Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds, seeking to recognize the late Italian explorer for his contributions to U.S. history. White House officials signed a loan agreement Wednesday with the Italian American Organizations United to secure a reconstructed statue of Columbus thrown into the Baltimore Harbor during…
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Trump takes steps toward installing a Columbus statue near the White House
President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing near the White House a replica of a statue of famed explorer Christopher Columbus that was tossed into Baltimore's harbor.
Being MAGA Means Pretending That a Giant, Golden Columbus Statue Improves Your Life
I hope that Donald Trump is sufficiently thankful for how incredibly low the bar has been set, in terms of the publicity stunts he so frequently employs to curry favor with his base. Once upon a time, a President announcing the commissioning of a statue of a 15th century explorer would have been the kind of thing received with shrugs and head scratches by the Americans he purports to serve, as they immediately discard that information, given tha…
US President Donald Trump is taking steps to place in or near the White House a replica of the statue of Christopher Columbus, the explorer who discovered America in 1492, cast into Baltimore Harbor amid protests against institutional racism during his first term.
Donald Trump's megalomania seems limitless. In the net, the US president currently shared a visualisation of his planned ballroom, causing horror. While investing $350 million in his prodigious construction project, the US people are fighting for survival.
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