Badlands Media Special Coverage: 10/9/26 - Columbus Day Remarks, Columbus Statues & Nessun Dorma
President Trump celebrates Columbus Day with Italian American leaders and guests, opening with tenor Christopher Macchio singing the national anthem and a chat about Luciano Pavarotti, whom Trump calls a friend. Trump says he has "resurrected" Christopher Columbus and points to the statue he put up outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. He describes invoking a federal monuments law to stop a crowd from pulling down a statue in Washington, says the radical left wants to abolish Columbus Day, and calls for a Columbus statue to return to Columbus, Ohio. He recounts the Columbus statue…
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