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Trump Issues Major Orders Restoring Columbus Day, But His Plan Doesn't Stop There
The Western Journal ^ | 28APR2025 | Michael Schwarz

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ageofsail; christophercolumbus; columbus; columbusday; godsgravesglyphs; holiday; restoration
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To: Albion Wilde

Lee personified humility and healing and reunifying after the war. With a word he could have launched a guerilla war. He was the opposite.

And when those evil women melted down his statue, they did it against a court order and they did it ensuring his face was displayed towards the camera so they could show him burning and melting.

I despise those women that did that. Flat out evil and they would kill you if they could.


21 posted on 04/28/2025 2:54:55 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: DesertRhino

This is true and most people do not know the history of anti-Italian bigotry in the US. Many think and act like only blacks got any kind of bigotry throughout time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings


22 posted on 04/28/2025 2:59:54 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

How about all those statues of Columbus that the radicals destroyed with the complete approval and support of the democrats? How about restoring them?

How about bringing back the Columbus day parades in those democrat cities that canceled them with the excuse of “coronavirus” in 2020?


23 posted on 04/28/2025 3:07:58 PM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: The Great RJ

What’s a “native American?”

Every person born on US soil to legal parents is a NATIVE AMERICAN.

Self pitying nosense trying to create a “native american day” on Columbus Day.

Since the title makes no sense in the context you use it, it should not be used at all to describe American Insians.


24 posted on 04/28/2025 3:11:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: I want the USA back

Quote from the article:

“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.”


25 posted on 04/28/2025 3:14:41 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Tom Tetroxide

History books were rewritten in the 1960s to make everything the Europeans did look bad.I guess they would rather have Stone Age people still living in the new world killing each other off than a modern nation.

How the tribes treated each other before the White Man arrived.
https://archive.news.wsu.edu/press-release/2014/08/04/wsu-researchers-see-violent-era-in-ancient-southwest/#.U9_iumNjYzJ

https://www.science20.com/news_articles/the_most_violent_era_in_america_was_before_europeans_arrived-141847
Who invented Scalping?
https://www.americanheritage.com/who-invented-scalping
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html

Last days of the ancient Pueblos.
https://blairmastbaum.substack.com/p/the-terrifying-final-days-of-the
Crow Creek Massacre.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/9/crow-creek-massacre-in-1300s-remains-south-dakotas/
https://www.academia.edu/7907221/Mass_Grave_at_Crow_Creek_in_South_Dakota_Reveals_How_Indians_Massacred_Indians_in_14th_Century_Attack
Sacred Ridge Massacre.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massacre-sacred-ridge
The Genocide Pit in Sacred Ridge, Colorado
https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/scary-archeology-genocide-pit-sacred-ridge-colorado.html

Human sacrifice at Cahokia
https://www.ancientpages.com/2015/08/27/human-sacrifice-at-cahokia-victims-were-locals-not-foreign-captives/
Ancient Massacre Discovered in New Mexico — Was It Genocide?
https://lostworlds.org/ancient-massacre-discovered-in-new-mexico-was-it-genocide/

The Gallina of New Mexico: a culture of violence?
https://mountainscholar.org/items/22dafb20-e69e-40c9-96cf-ddcdb14fff0f

Anasazi Cannibalism
https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/additional-evidence-for-cannibalism-in-the-southwest-the-case-of-la-4528/FB7F8B0434EA3118B716AE84EC368DC8
Basketmaker II Cave 7: Massacre or Cemetery?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440312000829

New Research Supports Theory of Ancient Massacre Site in Utah
https://www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/archives/2013/09/11/new-research-supports-theory-of-ancient-massacre-site-in-utah
Massacre at Awatovi is little known act of genocide
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/trail_dust/trail-dust-hopi-massacre-at-awatovi-is-little-known-act-of-genocide/image_830b57c1-78ad-5775-8b72-ed47dd6aba23.html
How genocide wiped out a Native American population
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873


26 posted on 04/28/2025 4:08:19 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Tell It Right

***1892 killings of 11 Italians in New Orleans. ***

By the KKK.


27 posted on 04/28/2025 4:09:37 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Tom Tetroxide

The tribes have two perfectly good days to call their own. Aug 11, 1680 when the Pueblo Revolt took place and June 25, 1876 when Custer was defeated.
But no-O-o. Got to grab off a day in which the tribes did nothing remarkable.


28 posted on 04/28/2025 4:18:17 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: DesertRhino

Many who are first in this life will be last in the next, and vice versa.

Life is hard. Then you die. Make sure you are saved.


29 posted on 04/28/2025 8:43:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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30 posted on 04/29/2025 3:54:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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