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Trump Puts Columbus on a Pedestal… and History Under His Heel

Monday, October 12, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump has resurrected Columbus, not from the dead but from historical disgrace. And his White House statue honors more than a discredited explorer. It’s a monument to the comforting fiction that conquest was discovery, dispossession was progress, and White men alone made history. After all, iPINIONS contends, why bother rewriting history when you can carve… Read more.

Trump Is Making Indigenous Peoples’ Day Columbus Day Again

Monday, October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s new proclamation to “make Columbus Day great again” isn’t about honoring Italian Americans; it’s about reviving the old lie that conquest equals discovery. From Columbus’s own journals to Trump’s DEI purge, iPINIONS shows how historical whitewashing keeps finding fresh political sponsors. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-is-making-indigenous-peoples Read more.