{"id":81672,"date":"2026-03-23T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81672"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:26:29","slug":"trump-brings-columbus-closer-to-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-brings-columbus-closer-to-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Brings Columbus Closer to White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, the latest effort by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration to recognize the controversial explorer.<\/p>\n<p>The statue is\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-christopher-columbus-statue-white-house-protests-33ec3f2601d85d1d49ab7164c0cf28a0\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a replica<\/a> <\/span>of one that was tossed into Baltimore\u2019s harbor in 2020 during Trump\u2019s first term at a time of nationwide protests against institutional racism.\u00a0Trump endorses a traditional view of Columbus as a leader of the 1492 mission seen as the unofficial beginning of European colonization in the Americas and the development of the modern economic and political order. But in recent years, Columbus also has been recognized as a primary example of Western Europe\u2019s conquest of the New World, its resources and its native people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774250789\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Trump Brings Columbus Closer to White House\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}