In June of 2020, at the height of Black Lives Matter protests nationwide, demonstrators toppled and burned a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike near the District of Columbia police headquarters.

The demonstrators wrapped two ropes around the statue to pull it down, then doused it with lighter fluid and set it on fire on live TV, where it burned for several minutes amidst raucous cheering before police put out the fire.

President Donald Trump immediately critiqued the carnage.

“The D.C. Police are not doing their job as they watch a statue be ripped down & burn,” he tweeted, tagging the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, a Democrat with whom he’d frequently clashed, reported nbcwashington.com. “These people should be immediately arrested. A disgrace to our Country!”

Five years later, the

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