WASHINGTON.- El president of the United States, Donald Trumpyou have installed a statue of Christopher Columbus on the grounds of the White House in one more decision of his policy of considering the explorer as a hero and putting an end to the ‘woke’ decisions of erasing his role in history and removing monuments in his honor throughout the country.
The statue is located in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Buildingand can be seen from the Avenida Pennsylvania NW and 17th Street NW.
Statue demolished in 2020
The work is a reproduction of another original that he inaugurated in 1984 in Baltimore the then president of the United States Ronald Reagan and what was knocked down by some protesters July 4, 2020 and thrown into the water in the city port for a few protests against colonial and racist symbols.
After the murder of the African American George Floyd on the part of police officers in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, which unleashed a wave of anti-racist demonstrationsthere was a mass removal of monuments that were considered symbols of slavery, racism or colonization.
Columbus statues vandalized
Among them, many Columbus statues they ended up being vandalized, knocked down or even officially withdrawn in different cities in the United States, such as Boston, Richmond, Saint Paul or Baltimore.
The figure of Columbus has become the epicenter of an ideological pulse in recent years.
The president Joe Biden recognized the Indigenous Peoples Daythe second Monday of October, in a policy of historical reparation and correcting the most traditional story focused only on the arrival of Columbus to America he October 12, 1492.
Trump changed this name in 2025 and declared the day as Columbus Dayordered the raising of the flag on public buildings and called for celebrations with events and ceremonies in honor of the “original American hero.”
White House Renovation
Remodel the White House It has become one of the president’s obsessions, concerned about his legacy and leaving his mark.
One of the main internal controversies of his second term has been the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to build a large ballroom.
Trump’s obsession with change does not remain within the perimeter of the White House but extends to other spaces in the city of Washington and also includes a triumphal arch inspired by that of paris and what would be called Trump arc.
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