President Trump slammed a decision to remove a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt from the front steps of the Museum of Natural History in New York City,…
President Trump slammed a decision to remove a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt from the front steps of the Museum of Natural History in New York City, calling it « ridiculous. »
In a Monday morning tweet, Trump urged officials not to remove the statue, which depicts Roosevelt on horseback leading two figures, one Native American and one African American.
City officials and museum staff announced the decision jointly on Sunday, pointing to the recent protests over the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans in encounters with law enforcement as a reason for reflection on the statue’s controversial depiction of Black and Indigenous people.
