President Donald Trump is echoing a Republican congressman in calling for the removal of a peace vigil that has been outside the White House for seven presidents.

“Take it down. Take it down today,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House .

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The peace vigil outside the White House on Sept. 5, 2025. (Naomi Lim/Washington Examiner)

Trump was asked about the vigil, considered the country’s longest continuous act of political protest after it was founded in 1981 by William Thomas, during an Oval Office press conference conve

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