A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, the latest effort by Donald Trump’s administration to recognize the controversial explorer.
The statue is a replica of one that was tossed into Baltimore’s harbor in 2020 during Trump’s first term at a time of nationwide protests against institutional racism.
Trump endorses a traditional view of Columbus as a leader of the 1492 mission seen as the unofficial beginning of European colonization in the Americas and the development of the modern economic and political order. But in recent years, Columbus also has been recognized as a primary example of Western Europe’s conquest of the New World, its resources and its native people.
Not surprising. A loser ‘explorer’ whose own country didn’t like him went ahead in their name without full permission to the Caribbean to pillage, plunder, and rape the native people. Not only this but he brought friends to do the same on successive trips. He was told not to go and still went multiple times, claiming land and people in the name of his country who again, soured on him quick.
Pedo and his followers love this guy, of course. Birds of a shit feather.
Didn’t Columbus traffic children, too?
He did, you are correct.