Alex Wong / Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump has resurrected and installed a controversial statue on White House grounds. The statue of Christopher Columbus is a recreation of one that was dismantled and thrown into the river by protesters in Baltimore in 2020 during the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. Text on the new statue, made using marble from the original, states that it was originally dedicated in 1984 before being destroyed in 2020 and “resurrected” in 2022, as seen in photos obtained by the New York Times . Read more at The Daily Beast.