Trump plans yet another facelift for Washington with a statue of this president
- President Donald Trump called for a towering statue of George Washington to be erected outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the latest in a series of efforts to reshape the nation’s capital and the institutions that tell its history.
- The proposal was one of several changes Trump urged the Smithsonian Institution to make ahead of the first president’s 300th birthday in 2032.
- In Truth Social posts on Friday evening, the Republican president called on the Smithsonian — an institution he has derided as “woke” and threatened to cut funding from — to install a 30-foot “Coloss
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- President Donald Trump called for a towering statue of George Washington to be erected outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the latest in a series of efforts to reshape the nation’s capital and the institutions that tell its history.
- The proposal was one of several changes Trump urged the Smithsonian Institution to make ahead of the first president’s 300th birthday in 2032.
- In Truth Social posts on Friday evening, the Republican president called on the Smithsonian — an institution he has derided as “woke” and threatened to cut funding from — to install a 30-foot “Coloss
Sources: The Independent