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'Bringing Columbus Day back': Trump says Democrats ruined explorer's reputation

Apr 28, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    38% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -37% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump on Columbus: 'Christopher is going to make a major comeback' Former President Joe Biden recognized Indigenous Peoples Day in a 2021 proclamation, becoming the first president to do so.
43% : " Trump has railed against what he described as an effort by Democrats to "destroy" the explorer's reputation, saying his political rivals "tore down his Statues, and put up nothing but 'WOKE,' or even worse, nothing at all!" "You'll be happy to know, Christopher is going to make a major comeback," he wrote on Truth Social.
36% : In an April 27 post on Truth Social, Trump said he's "bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.
34% : "Sadly, in recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus's legacy," Trump said in a 2020 Columbus Day proclamation.
32% : " Trump has complained for years that Columbus, who landed in the Americas in 1492, is being mistreated as his legacy is re-evaluated.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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