{"id":69738,"date":"2026-03-23T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/trump-erects-statue-of-christopher-columbus-in-white-house-grounds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:55:00","slug":"trump-erects-statue-of-christopher-columbus-in-white-house-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/trump-erects-statue-of-christopher-columbus-in-white-house-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monument made from shattered pieces of original statue tossed into Baltimore\u2019s inner harbor by protesters in 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/23\/new-york-laguardia-airport-plane-vehicle-crash-air-canada-updates\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A statue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/13\/christopher-columbus-was-spanish-and-jewish-documentary-reveals\">Christopher Columbus<\/a> has been installed in the grounds of the White House in the latest attempt by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> to position the controversial explorer as a foundational hero of the US.<\/p>\n<p>The president had the 13ft statue, which weighs one ton, placed outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on Pennsylvania Avenue. It is a replica of a monument to Columbus that was torn down and <a href=\"https:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/atoms\/2021\/05\/floyd-one-year\/assets\/v\/1621678642262\/20200705T070948Z_29528413_RC2VMH9RVG1M_RTRMADP_5_GLOBALRACEBALTIMORESTATUE%20(26cda3195aba9cc6fb6af5a1240832867e4220b0).jpg\">tossed<\/a> into Baltimore\u2019s inner harbor by protesters in the city amid widespread anti-racism protests in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/23\/trump-christopher-columbus-statue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monument made from shattered pieces of original statue tossed into Baltimore\u2019s inner harbor by protesters in 2020 US politics \u2013 live updates A statue of Christopher Columbus has been installed in the grounds of the White House in the latest attempt by Donald Trump to position the controversial explorer as a foundational hero of the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/trump-erects-statue-of-christopher-columbus-in-white-house-grounds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds\">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-69738","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\/69738","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=69738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}