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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJune: Trump Misidentifies Sculpture in Oval Office While Saying Statues Help Teach History
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Trump Misidentifies Sculpture in Oval Office While Saying Statues Help Teach History
Matt Novak
6/29/20 7:50AM
In a bizarre interview with Fox News last night, President Trump stood next to a sculpture in the Oval Office that he said depicts former president Teddy Roosevelt, and explained that statues are vital to learning about history. Trump went on to complain that some people want to tear down statues of President Roosevelt, just like the art in his office. The only problem? The sculpture Trump was talking about isnt Teddy Roosevelt. Its an anonymous cowboy from the 1890s.
Every president chooses what to put around them, Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade said during the interview while pointing at the various pieces of art in the Oval Office. You chose Lincoln as a bust and Lincoln as a picture. You chose Andrew Jackson, and is that Teddy Roosevelt?
Yes, Trump says about the sculpture that is definitely not Teddy Roosevelt. And by the way, theyre taking down the statue of...
Teddy Roosevelt, Kilmeade says, helping to finish Trumps sentence.
Teddy Roosevelt, Trump finally spits out. So, explain that one.
The sculpture in the Oval Office of the White House is called The Bronco Buster and was originally designed in 1895 by Frederic Remington. The sculpture was partially inspired by Remingtons own illustration in an 1888 issue of Century Magazine which accompanied an article by Teddy Roosevelt, according to the White House Historical Association. Some of Roosevelts fellow Rough Riders from the Spanish-American War even gifted him a version of the statue that was displayed in his private home in New York, and this connection may have led to Trumps confusion.
Either that or the president is just an idiot.
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Matt Novak
6/29/20 7:50AM
In a bizarre interview with Fox News last night, President Trump stood next to a sculpture in the Oval Office that he said depicts former president Teddy Roosevelt, and explained that statues are vital to learning about history. Trump went on to complain that some people want to tear down statues of President Roosevelt, just like the art in his office. The only problem? The sculpture Trump was talking about isnt Teddy Roosevelt. Its an anonymous cowboy from the 1890s.
Every president chooses what to put around them, Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade said during the interview while pointing at the various pieces of art in the Oval Office. You chose Lincoln as a bust and Lincoln as a picture. You chose Andrew Jackson, and is that Teddy Roosevelt?
Yes, Trump says about the sculpture that is definitely not Teddy Roosevelt. And by the way, theyre taking down the statue of...
Teddy Roosevelt, Kilmeade says, helping to finish Trumps sentence.
Teddy Roosevelt, Trump finally spits out. So, explain that one.
The sculpture in the Oval Office of the White House is called The Bronco Buster and was originally designed in 1895 by Frederic Remington. The sculpture was partially inspired by Remingtons own illustration in an 1888 issue of Century Magazine which accompanied an article by Teddy Roosevelt, according to the White House Historical Association. Some of Roosevelts fellow Rough Riders from the Spanish-American War even gifted him a version of the statue that was displayed in his private home in New York, and this connection may have led to Trumps confusion.
Either that or the president is just an idiot.
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June: Trump Misidentifies Sculpture in Oval Office While Saying Statues Help Teach History (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2020
OP
Yes,... Dotard an idiot,... who with a functioning brain could argue with that ?
magicarpet
Jul 2020
#4
marybourg
(12,639 posts)1. The latter.
nykym
(3,063 posts)2. I'll go with
IDIOTS for $500.00 Alex
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)3. the Russians have an insult for that kind of behavior.
"Nye Kulturni" (sp)
It means "uncultured".
I heard the Philly DA call Trump "uneducable" the other day. That works, too.
magicarpet
(14,187 posts)4. Yes,... Dotard an idiot,... who with a functioning brain could argue with that ?
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)5. If statues teach history, then they're not enough statues in the world to teach rump a damn thing.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,215 posts)6. Reminds me of this scene from the movie Stepbrothers
"House was built in 1825 by General Custer..."
Vinca
(50,318 posts)7. It pains me he gets to use our art objects as props.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)8. Thats on Kilmeade. perfect example of how Fox leads him by the nose
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