A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump’s effort to restore the explorer’s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020.
The sculpture was placed on the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building facing Pennsylvania Avenue, according to the New York Times. It is a replica of a statue that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the Inner Harbor during the racial justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
