Trump is boasting on Truth Social that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has reinstalled a massive portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, a man who enslaved people and led the fight to preserve slavery against the United States. The painting, which depicts Lee in his Confederate uniform, had been removed in 2022 under a congressional mandate to strip military institutions of tributes to Confederates, but was recently restored under Trump to the academy’s library.

By highlighting the move, Trump is aligning himself with the reinstatement of Confederate imagery at the nation’s premier military academy.

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Lee’s legacy is inseparable from slavery a

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