Donald Trump today raged at the 'animals' who tore down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in Portland last night as rioting returned to the city on the eve of Columbus Day. The statue, officially called Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider, was pulled down just before 9pm and the plinth defaced with a message raging at 'stolen land'. 'You killed many of my people; you burned villages… and were not good Indians,' Roosevelt told him. One Columbus statue was beheaded in Boston amid the George Floyd protests while another was torn down and thrown in a lake in Richmond, Virginia. Elsewhere, Chicago had a Columbus statue lifted out of Grant Park under cover of darkness after mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered its removal.

Source: Daily Mail October 12, 2020 10:44 UTC