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Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

Anyone who’s clamoring for President Donald Trump to bring down inflation and right the economy will have to keep waiting, since his administration is focused on more important things—like bringing back Confederate monuments. The National Park Service announced on Monday that the Trump administration is reinstalling a statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general from Arkansas who wanted to expel free Black people from his state, in Washington, D.C. The statue, which sat near the U.S. Capitol, was removed in 2020 after being toppled by protesters. According to NPS, the statue is being reinstated to support “both the Executive Order on Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful and the Executive Order on Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, which direct federal agencies to protect public monuments and present a full and accurate picture of the American past."

But this isn’t the only way that Trump is honoring Confederate traitors. Unqualified and reckless Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth restored the names of Confederate generals on military bases in July, a move 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 said during a speech in North Carolina at Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. What’s more, Trump is also seeking to extort the D.C.’s NFL team into changing its name from the Commanders back to the R**skins, a racist slur against Native Americans.

Racist Confederate monuments are welcomed back in Trump’s hellhole vision of America, with the return of the Confederate traitor Albert Pike’s statue that was toppled by Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

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