WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration installed a replica of a Christopher Columbus statue on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House. The statue is a replica of the Columbus statue that protesters dumped into Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 2020.

In the summer of 2020, protesters dumped a statue of Christopher Columbus into Baltimore's Inner Harbor. "In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero," a supporter said.

Within decades of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, the Indigenous Taíno population collapsed as forced labor, starvation and violence ravaged their communities. Christopher Columbus authorized the enslavement of Indigenous people and the trafficking of women and girls. Contemporaries of Christopher Columbus documented his authorization of enslavement and trafficking of Indigenous people.