A car with the Italian flag was seen during the annual Columbus Day parade in New York City in 2023. Michael San Diego/Getty Images North America Closed subtitles
Columbus Day is currently one of 11 holidays recognized by the federal government. But President Trump said he is commemorating the "New World" "back from the ashes" for the Italian explorers' 1492 journey.
Trump said in a truth society post on Sunday that he hopes Christopher Columbus will make a "major comeback" in the United States.
"I am hereby restoring Columbus Day, by the same rules, dates and places, like all decades of decades!" Trump wrote.
However, Columbus Day has been the official federal holiday for nearly a century, and many government workers take a day off each year.
Nowadays, many people also celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, became the first in the United States to recognize the contribution of the country’s Native American population in its national compliance on the same date as Columbus Day.
Some Italian American groups praised Trump’s weekend message, one of which called it a “deep symbol.”
This is the knowledge of the ongoing cultural conflict between the two holidays.
The first official celebration of Columbus' Atlantic Ocean took place in 1892, a year ago in widespread anti-Italian sentiment in the United States, where 11 Sicilian immigrants were lynched in New Orleans for killing the city's police commissioner.
Columbus Day was held every year on the second Monday in October in 1934 at President Franklin D.
But over the past half century, the legacy of historical figures has been damaged in the Bahamas in 1492. He was condemned for bringing the deadly disease to the Americas, which destroyed the indigenous population and opened centuries for exploitation in Europe.
Shannon Speed, a citizen of Chickasaw Nation and director of the UCLA Anter Indian Studies Center, told NPR in 2019 that he now knows more about what Renaissance explorers and their political parties do after the ship lands. It includes “pornography, rape, and universally genocide by people who are already here.” “It’s not something we want to celebrate. That’s not something anyone wants to celebrate.”
The worsening attitude towards Columbus has led some cities and states to change the name of the holiday, or to not recognize the holiday at all. A 2023 review conducted by the Pew Research Center found that only 16 states and U.S. Samoa territory still recognized the second Monday in October, the official public holiday on Columbus Day.
Changing sentiment — especially after the 2020 racial justice protests — has also prompted some jurisdictions to remove statues of explorers, including Ohio and New Jersey. According to the Post, a 2021 analysis conducted by The Washington Post and MIT found that at least 40 Columbus monuments have been demolished since 2018. More than 130 such monuments have been preserved.
In 1977, the idea of Indigenous Peoples Day was first proposed by participants in the United Nations International discrimination against indigenous populations in the Americas.
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President Baden said in his 2021 announcement that he acknowledged “the great sacrifices made by the indigenous peoples to this country and recognized their many ongoing contributions to our country.” (Biden also issued a statement commemorating Columbus Day, most recently last year.)
In Sunday's post, Trump accused Democrats of "destroying Christopher Columbus, his reputation and everything possible for all the Italians who love him." He added: "They tore up his statue and nothing but 'awakening'!"
Several Italian American groups cheered Trump's comments.
Italy's orders in the United States said in a Facebook post that it was very grateful to Trump and that recognition was very symbolic of the Italian-American community. ”
"Columbus Day is particularly important to Italian-Americans because it represents not only our history, but also the resilience of communities facing anti-Watri Asian-American discrimination," the group said.
Robert Allegrini, president and CEO of the National Italian American Foundation, praised his so-called Trump's "commitment to preserving and enhancing the Columbus Day celebrations" in a post on X.