Trump vows to reinstate Columbus Day in October

President Trump is vowing to bring back the Columbus Day holiday in October

The president went on his Truth Social platform Sunday to make the announcement

He asserted that, quote, Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus

his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much, end quote

The president said he is reinstating the day under the same rules, dates, and locations

where it had been marked for many decades. The federal holiday takes place on the second Monday in October

While it is still called Columbus Day, former President Joe Biden signed a proclamation in 2021 recognizing the holiday as Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrating, quote, the invaluable contributions and resilience of indigenous peoples and their inherent sovereignty, end quote

The same proclamation stated America was formed on the promise of equality and opportunity for all people

and specifically mentioned the rights and dignity of the indigenous people who were here long before the colonization of the Americas began

Activists long sought to shift the honoring of Columbus voyage to the Americas to the exploitation and plight of indigenous people which Columbus and other explorers found when

they arrived. Biden's decision was seen as a move to acknowledge more diversity in the United States

When Columbus arrived on the Caribbean islands in 1492, that arrival was often seen as the

discovery of America and the beginning of European colonization. However, as NPR documented in its

report, Coming to America, Who Was First? There were millions of people already on the land

The Associated Press reports the killing of 11 Italian-American immigrants in New Orleans

in 1891 led to the first Columbus Day celebration in the United States. President Franklin D

Roosevelt later declared it a national holiday in 1934. Donald Trump has often criticized the

tearing down of Columbus statues in recent years and did so in his Truth Social post, saying they

tore down his statues and put up nothing but woke, or even worse, nothing at all

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