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President Donald Trump is claiming that "left-wing arsonists" have "destroyed and dishonored" the memory of Christopher Columbus

In a fiery holiday proclamation, the president refused to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples' Day, instead reclaiming Columbus Day as a federal holiday and glorifying the Italian explorer as "the original American hero"

Columbus' accidental 1492 discovery of Caribbean islands in the name of the Spanish crown opened Indigenous people up to the ravage of European diseases, as well as their mass enslavement and deportation

President Donald Trump is claiming that "left-wing arsonists" have "destroyed and dishonored" the memory of Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer credited with initiating the European colonization of the Americas.

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