Anybody who’s clamoring for President Donald Trump to carry down inflation and proper the economic system should maintain ready, since his administration is targeted on extra necessary issues—like bringing again Accomplice monuments.
The Nationwide Park Service introduced on Monday that the Trump administration is reinstalling a statue of Albert Pike, a Accomplice normal from Arkansas who needed to expel free Black folks from his state, in Washington, D.C. The statue, which sat close to the U.S. Capitol, was eliminated in 2020 after being toppled by protesters.
In line with NPS, the statue is being reinstated to assist “each the Govt Order on Making the District of Columbia Protected and Stunning and the Govt Order on Restoring Reality and Sanity to American Historical past, which direct federal companies to guard public monuments and current a full and correct image of the American previous.”
Protesters topple the statue of Accomplice Gen. Albert Pike in 2020.
However this isn’t the one manner that Trump is honoring Accomplice traitors.
Unqualified and reckless Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth restored the names of Accomplice generals on navy bases in July, a transfer hailed by Racist in Chief Trump.
“Can you believe they changed that name in the last administration for a little bit? We’ll forget all about that,” Trump stated throughout a speech in North Carolina at Fort Bragg, named after Accomplice Gen. Braxton Bragg.
What’s extra, Trump can be searching for to extort the D.C.’s NFL staff into altering its title from the Commanders again to the Redskins, a racist slur towards Native People.
Whereas Trump focuses on resurrecting statues of racist traitors and making sports activities staff names racist once more, a YouGov survey launched Tuesday exhibits that 21% of People need him to as a substitute give attention to inflation and rising costs.
However as a substitute of doing that, Trump is instating insane tariffs which are spiking inflation and paralyzing the job market—resulting in fears of stagflation and a painful recession that will probably be 100% his doing.
The YouGov ballot additionally discovered that simply 34% of People approve of the best way Trump is dealing with inflation and skyrocketing costs.
As for the Pike statue, Democrats lambasted the Trump administration’s determination to resurrect the tribute to the Confederacy.
“Why is Trump focusing on reinstalling confederate statues instead of lowering costs for American families?” Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware wrote on X.
However Eleanor Holmes Norton, a congressional delegate representing D.C., stated that she’s going to reintroduce laws to have the monument eliminated.
“NPS’ determination to revive and reinstall the statue of Accomplice Albert Pike is indefensible,” she wrote on X. “Pike served dishonorably, misappropriated funds, and was ultimately imprisoned by his fellow troops. I’ll reintroduce my bill to remove the statue.”
