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Trump, De Blasio Respond To Decision To Remove Roosevelt Statue From NYC Museum

Tim Pearce
Trump, De Blasio Respond To Decision To Remove Roosevelt Statue From NYC Museum
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President Trump called the American Museum of Natural History’s decision to remove a statue of 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt “ridiculous.”

The museum, located in New York City, was founded by Roosevelt’s father and others in 1869, and every visitor to the museum since 1940 has been greeted by the statue of the former president on a horse and flanked by a Native American and black American.

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