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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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, will build a statue of Christopher Columbus on the grounds of the White House, in a further attempt to model the official residence to his liking and to adapt the history of the country and the continent to its particular version.
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Trump Releases Rendering of Planned White House Ballroom
President Donald Trump has released a rendering of the planned new White House East Wing and ballroom, unveiling an exterior design he said would remain faithful to the historic character of the executive mansion while addressing what he has long described as a critical functional shortfall. The image, shared in a Feb. 3 post on Truth Social, depicts the future ballroom complex as seen from the Treasury Department across Pennsylvania Avenue. Tru…
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