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highplainsdem

(55,192 posts) Fri Mar 28, 2025, 02:37 PM Mar 28

Trump has ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to reinstate Confederate monuments, memorials, statues and markers [View all]

taken down since 2020.

The order doesn't use the word "Confederate" but the intent is clear.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/trump-museum-order-jd-vance-6rzkqg68q

Well, at least he hasn't yet ordered monuments honoring the slave trade as supposedly making Amerjcan capitalism great and actually helping the slaves. But I wouldn't be surprised if there are people around him who want that.

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Trump has ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to reinstate Confederate monuments, memorials, statues and markers [View all] highplainsdem Mar 28 OP

Sombody please make it stop !!!!! Mossfern Mar 28 #1

dump should have musKKK do it CountAllVotes Mar 28 #2

What's next? Restoring the "sq**w" name on 600 places? Eugene Mar 28 #3

So that is truly a Russian thing. tavernier Mar 28 #4

What happened to "letting the states decide"? Biophilic Mar 28 #5

Or letting the statues decide for themselves. GreenWave Mar 28 #9

And the cost? DOGE needs to stop this. louis-t Mar 28 #6

The ones that were in Richmond are melted down underpants Mar 28 #7

The slave trade was being monumented in atonement. Frasier Balzov Mar 28 #8

Cracker kysrsoze Mar 28 #10

Go back to the Good Ole Days Beringia Mar 28 #11

None of them were under federal control, though alarimer Mar 28 #12

Little things like jurisdiction Retrograde Mar 28 #13

Then I suggest they make them all really ugly alarimer Mar 28 #15

Anything to appeal to his white fascist base. (nt) Paladin Mar 28 #14

Just to clarify... this doesn't affect most monuments removed in the past decade. WarGamer Mar 28 #16