It's Indigenous Peoples' Day under the Trump regime.
That means anti-Indigenous Peoples' Day, and glorification of Columbus once again, because everything is backward in Trumplandia. After Pete Hegseth reinstated the Medal of Honor to U.S. troops who massacred unarmed people at Wounded Knee in 1890, this comes as no surprise.
Trump's October 9 proclamation, in which he redeclared today as Columbus Day, included these words:
Upon his arrival, [Columbus] planted a majestic cross in a mighty act of devotion, dedicating the land to God and setting in motion America’s proud birthright of faith. … Guided by steadfast prayer and unwavering fortitude and resolve, Columbus’s journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas — paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776.
As anyone knows who reads about Columbus, he was reviled by Europeans in his own time for his actions against the people of the Western Hemisphere. In a way not dissimilar to today's MAGA faithful, he couldn't seem to follow the teachings of his own religion when it came to anyone who wasn't within a small circle of people he recognized as being like him.
Maybe that is, indeed, "America's proud birthright of faith." Some Christians disagree, but they are not in ascendancy currently.
Some past posts on Indigenous Peoples' Day:
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