US President Donald Trump has continued his makeover of the White House, adding a statue of Christopher Colombus and laying new black granite paving stones on the famed West Wing colonnade.

The marble figure of Columbus, the 15th-century Italian explorer who forged a reputation for brutality in his voyages to the New World, is a replica of one toppled by anti-racism protesters in the city of Baltimore in 2020.

Originally published on doc.afp.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

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