Donald Trump has a new stupid, pointless plan for Washington DC: he wants to put up a statue to Christopher Columbus. He’s not very bright, so he thinks that pandering to an ethnic group is how you convince them to favor Republicans. Only stupid Italian-Americans will fall for it.
President Donald Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus on White House grounds, according to three people with knowledge of the pending move, in his latest effort to remake the presidential campus and celebrate the famed and controversial explorer.
The statue is set to be located on the south side of the grounds, by E Street and north of the Ellipse, two of the people said, although they cautioned that plans could change. The three people spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak on private discussions. The piece is a reconstruction of a statue unveiled in Baltimore by then-President Ronald Reagan and dumped in the city’s harbor by protesters in 2020 as a racial reckoning swept the country.
Great. Another lump of rock to dump in the Potomac in a few years. It does kind of suit this administration.
“In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero,” spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement. “And he will continue to be honored as such by President Trump.”
But of course they would consider an imperialist, murderous slaver who maimed and killed the people of a small Caribbean island to be a hero.
But there’s more! A group of cryptocurrency assholes commissioned an 18 foot tall bronze statue of Donald Trump for the launch of another memecoin.
He was put in touch by phone with a group of 16 cryptocurrency entrepreneurs — one in Canada, the others mostly in the United States — who wanted to create a giant bronze Trump commemorating his survival of the assassination attempt at Butler.
“It was a turning point in world history,” Stockton told The Times in 2025. “It would have been a full-blown civil war.” They wanted to capture “one of the most iconic moments and to show our appreciation of his embrace of crypto”, he said.
Their knowledge of history is on par with their aesthetic taste.
Oh, wait. That’s not good enough. It had to be gilded.
It’s possibly the most Trumpian thing ever, but there’s one additional detail. The statue is currently stored in the creator’s workshop, because the people who commissioned it haven’t paid for it.
He is still owed $91,200, Cottrill said. And the giant Trump is staying with him until he gets it. He added: “I can’t trust them to pay me otherwise.”
Now that is definitely the most Trumpian thing ever.
I don’t know where it will end up, but it’s just going to end up in a nearby river or harbor eventually.
Didn’t they sort out CCs ancestry through DNA?
Also, the slave trader and war crimilal who massacred indians also did human trafficking, permitting settlers to get sex slaves, many pre-adolescent..
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Wait! We should do everything in our power to spread the word that Trump’s advocacy of an old human trafficker is very apt.
In fact, this blight on Columbus’ record was one of the reason why the Spanish royals demoted him.
really it’s not a cult….the golden idol is just a normal homage to the fearless leader and his policies that lead all to prosperity and happiness. All hail his name
snark
The Trump statue will shorly follow the fate of the East Bloc statues of Stalin.
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We could set up a park dedicated to monsters, with statues of Mobutu, The Emperor of Central Africa, Idi Amin, Enver Hodja, Feliks Dzerzinsky, Lenin, Stalin, Breszhnev, Mao and wossname the ghoul in Cambodia. I think Trump fits in somewhere between Idi Amin and the Central African guy.
The destination is the Doral golf course – the pedestal is already built: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-installing-15-foot-gold-statue-of-himself-at-his-florida-resort/ar-AA1VBpjW , and it’s where Trump will be charging the US taxpayer to host the G20 at the end of the year: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/don-colossus-gigantic-golden-trump-233244345.html . So world leaders will get to see him as an ex-Soviet-republic-style dictator in larger-than-life gilded form. American taste knows no bounds.
I wonder what instructions the artist received? “That provisional drawing? Yes, I know it’s accurate to the picture. But we can’t have that! President Trump must be portrayed as slimmer and younger looking. And no double chin!”
He is still owed $91,200, Cottrill said. And the giant Trump is staying with him until he gets it. He added: “I can’t trust them to pay me otherwise.”
Trump 101. At least some people have caught on to his gambit.
@5 timguenguen
I surprised they didn’t do the statue in the image of the photo shopped Rambo Trump.
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I don’t see the bandage on his ear. Wasn’t that bloody remnant what made his defiant stance so great?
And, how large will this statue be?
Larger than the White House?
Trump’s style of decorating AFAICT, is just “Clutter”, “Tacky”, and “Obsolete”.
I’ve seen pictures of that proposed ballroom.
It is much larger than the White House, which makes no design sense.
It is mostly windows which makes it a huge security risk, considering it is for the elite rulers of the USA, rapidly becoming one of the most hated groups on the planet.
It looks like the most energy inefficient building you can imagine.
A few people have said it will probably never be built.
Trump doesn’t own the land it is to be built on and is having trouble getting the permits.
re raven @9: He didn’t have permits to tear down the East Wing of the White House either.
I remember something about golden idols from Sunday school years ago…
the poor potomac is polluted enough (even before the 200m gallons of sewage poured into it last month), can we roll this trash into the anacostia?
coffeepott@12: All this dumping of old statues into rivers and harbours has to stop!
These are valuable resources! Recycling is the way to go. Melt down valuable bronze and smash stone monuments into gravel. I mean, who wouldn’t love to proudly walk on his new driveway knowing the gravel underfoot used to be a statue of Americas dumbest president?
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Ding Dong doesn’t like it. It makes him look fat and unhealthy, not the robust comic book he-man he fantasizes himself to be.
Not true. This is pandering to all the racists and white supremacists. I guess we should consider ourselves fortunate that erecting a statue of their true idol, Adolph Hitler, is still considered unacceptable.
What we really need when that creature is dead and gone is a proper damnatio memoriae like the ancient Egyptians. Erase his name from every place he’s stuck it and tear down every awful monument to his vanity (the proposed arch, etc.) It would take away the one thing he’s determined to have, the immortality of his name plastered all over the public sphere. We should ensure that his “legacy” is erasure.
christopher columbus was a malicious monster!
And, I know that some mealy-mouths will criticize the use of the term. But, looking at what the tRUMPholes have done to the white house, what used to be the rose garden, the $450 million ‘ballsroom”, the marble armrests for the ‘kennedy’ center seats, now all the statues, and so much more, the aesthetic sense of this couple can only be called egotistical american trailer trash.