With many holidays and federal observances celebrated throughout the years, one particular day is set to return — Columbus Day. On April 27, 2025, President Donald Trump announced on Truth ...

Trump has long complained about Democrats tearing down statues of Columbus, a complaint he made again in Sunday’s post. In 2017, he spoke out against a review of the 76-foot-tall statue of the ...

President Donald Trump declared Sunday that he would bring “Columbus Day back from the ashes” and reinstate its celebration as a holiday. “I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday posted about ‘bringing back’ Columbus Day ‘from the ashes’. The 78-year-old further accused Democrats of destroying ‘Christopher Columbus’ and his ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934. Trump has long complained about Democrats tearing down statues of Columbus, a complaint he made again in ...

In 2021, then-President Joe Biden became the first president to make an official statement celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day,” a holiday created in part to replace and rebuke Columbus Day.

Columbus Day has long been controversial, since the explorer never landed on the North American mainland and was a “homicidal tyrant who initiated the two greatest crimes in the history of the ...

The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the United States took place on Oct. 12, 1792, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Columbus’ landing, according to the Library of Congress.

Trump: Columbus Day is in, Indigenous Peoples Day is out 49 By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Published: Apr 27, 2025 9:30 PM Updated: Apr 27, 2025 10:43 PM ...

President Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he's "bringing Columbus Day back," decrying Democrats for tearing down statues of the explorer, reversing course from former President Joe Biden.

Columbus' ships – the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria – most likely landed on San Salvador, one of the Bahamian islands, before moving to different locations in search of valuable resources.