President Trump declared on Sunday that he would bring the “Columbus Day of the ashes” and would restore his celebration as a vacation.
“I am restoring Columbus under the same rules, dates and locations, since it has had all the previous decades!” The president said in a publication about Truth Social, which refers to the federal holidays that bears the name of Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer who sailed to the Americas on behalf of Spain more than 500 years ago.
The party has been criticized for a long time by those who condemn the explorer to pave the way for European colonialism, which brought catastrophic diseases and led to the decimation of indigenous populations in the United States.
But Columbus’s day was never canceled as a federal holiday, and on the second Monday of October it is still widely sprayed as such in the United States, and for many, it is still an important part of the American Italian heritage.
With his statement, Mr. Trump seemed to refer to a proclamation issued by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2021. That decree also recognized the day as the day of indigenous peoples, which recognizes indigenous communities who have lived in the Americas for thousands of years, and asked to be held throughout Columbus.
“The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation and all the Italians who love him so much,” Trump said in his publication on social networks on Sunday.
In 2021, Mr. Biden became the first American president to formally recognize the day of the peoples, promising to “honor the first inhabitants of the United States and the tribal nations that continue to thrive today.”
But Mr. Biden did not change the name of the long -standing holidays, which is still official known as Columbus Day. While several states and cities dishes recognize vacations as the day of indigenous peoples, it is not considered a federal holiday, thinking that it has used occasional efforts in Congress to do so.
The 2021 statement of Mr. Biden occurred in the midst of the successful public debate about the erase of indigenous peoples in Christopher Columbus celebrations, whose landing in North America led to centuries of exploitation and slaughter of American native populations. At that time, the dishes of the statues of Christopher Columbus were low tasks, many amid Black Lives Matter’s protests that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
