Trump also lambasted the anti-racism protests, saying the protesters behaved badly. (File)
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was opposed to the removal of Theodore Roosevelt’s statue outside the Natural History Museum in New York.
The move was announced on Sunday and comes amid anti-racism protests in the United States and around the world after the death of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, in police custody on May 25 in the United States.
The statue shows Roosevelt on a horse, with an American Indian and an African by his side.
Many have said that the statue symbolizes racial discrimination and colonial expansion.
New York mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday that the city supported the museum’s request to remove the statue because it “depicts blacks and natives as subjugated and racially inferior.”
“Ridiculous, don’t do it,” Trump said in a tweet Monday.
Ridiculous, don’t do it! https://t.co/VYez8p9AJh
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020
In ongoing anti-racism protests, protesters in the United States and around the world have demanded that authorities shoot down monuments honoring pro-slavery Confederate figures and architects of European colonies.
Trump lambasted the protests, claiming that the protesters behaved badly.
“The dislocated left crowd is trying to vandalize our history, to desecrate our monuments – our beautiful monuments – to destroy our statues and to punish, annul and persecute anyone who does not comply with their demands for absolute and total control. We do not comply, “said the President at a rally last week.
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