The president\u2019s mega-project raises a lot of questions \u2013 including when he\u2019s planning on leaving<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has quite the passion for American history. If there\u2019s a controversial statue commemorating a dead white supremacist out there, there\u2019s a good chance the president has gone to bat for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,\u201d Trump tweeted<\/a> in 2017, in response to a push to remove Confederate monuments. \u201cYou can\u2019t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson \u2013 who\u2019s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!\u201d Trump added<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president\u2019s mega-project raises a lot of questions \u2013 including when he\u2019s planning on leaving Donald Trump has quite the passion for American history. If there\u2019s a controversial statue commemorating a dead white supremacist out there, there\u2019s a good chance the president has gone to bat for it. \u201cSad to see the history and culture … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}