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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The Washington PostTrump plans to install Christopher Columbus statue outside White House
President Donald Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus on White House grounds, according to three people with knowledge of the pending move, in his latest effort to remake the presidential campus and celebrate the famed and…
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Independent EspañolBy BRIAN WITTE and BILL BARROW ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, USA (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to install near the White House a replica of a statue of the famous explorer Christopher Columbus, who was thrown into the port of Baltimore during his first term in the midst of protests against institutional racism. John Pica, a Maryland lobbyist and president of Italian American Organizations United — a non-profit organization that promotes…
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, plans to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House in yet another gesture of his "antiwoke" (anti-progressive) policy and in which he has resorted on more than one occasion to praise the figure of the conqueror as a symbolic and cultural flag. Colón's statue will be located on the south side of the presidential complex, next to E Street and north of the Ellipse, in the hear…
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