Statue of Confederate general toppled by protestors in 2020 is returned to its DC perch after Trump's order [View all]
Source: The Independent
Monday 27 October 2025 12:59 EDT
The statue of a Confederate general that was toppled by demonstrators protesting the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has been reinstated in Washington, D.C., under orders from President Donald Trump. After sitting in storage for over five years, the statue of Albert Pike, a brigadier general and revered figure among Freemasons, returned to Judiciary Square, just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, on Saturday, WTOP News reported.
The bronze statue of Pike was the sole outdoor statue of a Confederate military leader in the nation’s capital. It had been yanked to the ground with ropes and chains and set on fire on Juneteenth 2020, as nationwide protests erupted following the death of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man killed in Minneapolis when a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck.
Confederate statues around the country were toppled during similar protests, while several military bases named for Confederate leaders were given new names.
The statue’s reinstallation “aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and reinstate pre-existing statues,” the National Park Service said in August announcing the the return.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/confederate-statue-albert-pike-dc-trump-b2853104.html
Except when you destroy history by ripping out 1/3rd of the "historic" White House, blatantly ignoring the "historic preservation law".
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