Trump's D.C. TAKEOVER??

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A Confederate statue in D.C. that protesters toppled, graffitied and set alight five years ago is being repaired and returned to its perch this fall, the National Park Service said Monday.

The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate Army brigadier general whose wartime career lasted less than two years, is scheduled to be back on its plinth about a mile east of the White House in October.

“The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and reinstate preexisting statues,” an NPS spokesman said in a statement Monday. One such executive order calls for “restoring truth and sanity to American history.”

Asked about the cost of the repairs and relocation, the spokesman said he didn’t have any information to share.

Caption from a story by: Olivia George