Leftists will surely be triggered by the latest announcement by President Donald Trump that he is bringing back a cherished American holiday, which they have tried to disparage and replace with a “woke” version in recent years. Readers will likely remember that far-left progressives have made it their mission to tear down many of America’s heroes and forefathers–sometimes literally, in the case of statues and monuments.
He shared on his Truth Social account on Sunday that “[he is] bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes. The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much.”
The president continued by reminding everyone about the Left’s rampage in an effort to erase the explorer’s monuments across the U.S., and replace his namesake holiday with “Indigenous Peoples Day”:
“They tore down his Statues, and put up nothing but ‘WOKE,’ or even worse, nothing at all!” Trump said.
He’s not wrong. As recently as February, the former governor/prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, missed the plot when he used his official X account to celebrate that wokeified alternative to Columbus Day, when his country was in the middle of a tragic event.
Then, during the 2024 presidential election, President Trump made a promise to an NC tribe to recognize it, if he were reelected to a second term.
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Rioters and lefty activists spewing anti-colonialist slogans have sought to destroy or deface with graffiti the likenesses of Columbus, with Ivory Tower elitists at universities backing them up with essays by the droves, condemning the treatment of Native Americans by our nation as white supremacy or worse.
As my colleague Brandon Morse wrote in 2024, this is not an accident. The Left all but reveals how much they hate you with this move. He wrote:
The reason I make this point is that the left seems to want to use the idea that Western civilization began with a bunch of white people showing up and murdering innocent people because they were greedy like that. In that vein, they want to rewrite history and make celebrating the 1492 landing of Christopher Columbus taboo. Instead, they want that day replaced with “Indigenous Peoples Day.”
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Pres. Trump’s statement ended with:
“Well, you’ll be happy to know, Christopher is going to make a major comeback. I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations, as it has had for all of the many decades before!”
The White House even got in on the fun, sharing a meme with Trump and Christopher Columbus:
Cue the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left.
Editor’s Note: President Trump is leading America into the “Golden Age” as Democrats try desperately to stop it.
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