US EditionTrump plans to install Christopher Columbus statue outside White House: Report
President Trump plans to install a rebuilt Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds and revealed a $400 million ballroom expansion funded by private donations.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump released a public rendering of the White House ballroom and plans to install a reconstructed Christopher Columbus statue.
- In summer 2020, Italian American businessmen recovered and rebuilt the statue after it was dumped into Baltimore's harbor, according to three sources.
- The latest estimate is $400 million for the expansion, which includes a 22,000-square-foot ballroom seating 1,000 people, fully funded by private donations; the White House executive mansion is 55,000 square feet.
- White House spokesman Davis Ingle said `In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero` and declined to comment further, supporting Trump's continued honoring of him.
- The statue's 2020 removal by Black Lives Matter protesters and its dumping into Baltimore's harbor highlight its contentious status, while private restoration donors spent more than $100,000 honoring Italian immigrants.
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In 2020, demonstrators have sunk a statue of Christopher Columbus in the port of Baltimore. Now, the US President wants to put it on the White House site, which is about more than symbol politics.
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