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Posted on 04/28/2025 12:16:13 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
A man who died five centuries ago has emerged as a symbol of something he never could have imagined.
Sunday on his social media platform Truth Social, President Donald Trump announced his plan to restore the late-15th-century Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus to his once-lofty perch among the venerated heroes of Western and American history.
The announcement served as a welcome sign that the president has not forgotten his promised National Garden of American Heroes.
On Jan. 18, 2021, only two days before the end of his first presidential term, Trump issued Executive Order 13978. In Section 3, the president identified Columbus among 244 historical figures he intended to honor in that National Garden.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced a “special funding opportunity” to support and design the statues.
In other words, Trump might have had the National Garden in mind when he wrote of Columbus on Sunday.
“I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes,” the president wrote. “The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much. They tore down his Statues, and put up nothing but ‘WOKE,’ or even worse, nothing at all!”
Indeed, Trump issued Executive Order 13978 in response to the statue-toppling that accompanied the 2020 Black Lives Matter madness.
Happily, that orgy of destruction has receded into history. But the president has not forgotten.
“Well, you’ll be happy to know, Christopher is going to make a major comeback. I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations, as it has had for all of the many decades before!” he added.
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BREAKING: President Trump announces he is REINSTATING Columbus Day: “I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.”
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Everyone forgets, Columbus Day was started in 1892 after 11 Sicilians were lynched in New Orleans. It was a day to celebrate Italian heritage and to remind people not to treat them like lesser citizens.
And now here we are, with racists, pulling down their statuary.
I still own all four of the Columbus commemorative stamps they issued in 1992. Unused.
And now here we are, with a non-racist, about to put up new statuary!
Looks like 1620 is out and 1492 is back
Now go for the 1892 set.
Good.
Then President Ronald Magnus Reagan (Republican) issued an EO to make Columbus Day a regular holiday.
Now President Donald John Trump (Republican) is making it a holiday again.
USS Columbus has a nice ring to it. Make the left lose their minds.
The leftist spin ….. Columbus Day was not even under attack, it has been and still is Columbus day…. Same as always
Our Progressive Calendar(Holidays)
“Local governments have paired or replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4287875/posts
School District Cancels Veterans Day and Columbus Day
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4213894/posts
Woke Connecticut School District Removes Veterans Day and Columbus Day from Holiday Calendar
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4213769/posts
Italian-Americans ‘strongly condemn’ Biden’s ‘cancellation of Columbus Day’
https://freerepublic.com/tag/columbusday/index?tab=articles
You were saying????
Now make Pulaski Day a Federal Holiday.
I’m still waiting for any comment from Indigenouspeoples, Ohio
I have already started shopping for Columbus Day decorations and have two boxes of 4th of July decorations ready to deploy.
Silvio is thrilled.
Same with Robert E. Lee and statues and graves honoring confederates. Lee was revered as one of the greatest generals ever, who was once president of West Point, who was first offered to lead the Union Army, and who was a man of honor who fought for state's rights, not slavery.
The U.S. made bold moves of reconciliation after the war (including war pensions for confederates and/or their widows), a war which everyone knew at the time was about much, much more and different things than slavery. Not only was Lee's memorial statue in Richmond taken down by BLM banshees, it was melted down-- not even preserved as a museum piece. Then they went after his grave at Washington and Lee university, a college funded by himself and George Washington.
It will take more than a few E.O.s to fix the ignorance behind all this hatred.
Perhaps Native American heroes should also be honored in the Garden. Lakota leader Red Cloud would be a good choice.
Or maybe Grey Beaver
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