Trump announces the “recovery” of Columbus Day’s celebrations in the United States
The President of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced this Sunday to “recover” the Columbus Daywhich is celebrated continuously in the United States at the federal level on the second Monday of October since 1971, after “the attempts of the Democrats to destroy Christopher Columbus“.
“I intend to recover the Columbus Day among their ashes. Democrats have done everything possible Destroy Christopher ColumbusIts reputation and all the Italians who want it so much, “he said in reference to the tradition of the Italian-American community to celebrate the date.
He also referred to the actions of indigenous activists and the denunciation of colonialism that “They shot their statues To impose your location Wakes up Or, worse still, nothing. “
“Now you will be happy because Cristóbal will have an important return. Cristóbal Colón’s Day with the same standards, dates and locations Who has had many decades, “he added.
The “Columbus Day” was celebrated at the federal level since 1971 after decades of claims mainly by the Italian-American community that recalled death in particular from death Linchating of Once Ialiliano in New Orleans in 1891 During a wave of reason against immigrants.
Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, did not repeal on Columbus’s day, although he promoted the celebration of the Day of indigenous people On the same day. Previously Trump declared the defender of the “American lifestyle that began with Christopher Columbus”.
In recent years and in the United States, the legacy of the founders of the country and other historical characters such as Columbus has been questioned in the framework of the protests ‘The lives of the blacks count’ To criticize systematic racism, he revived massively after the death of George Floyd Afro -American at the hands of the Minneapolis police.
Therefore, American cities They have retired statues and monuments who honored figures of the confederate states and also statues of Christopher Columbus or of the Spanish conqueror Juan de Oñate.
