President Joe Biden just repeated the "very fine people" hoax, despite it having been long debunked. President Donald Trump denounced neo-Nazis specifically; the very fine people on both sides were those who wanted Confederate statues taken town and those who thought they should remain as historical monuments. Trump then went on to ask who was next after Robert E. Lee? George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? He was right.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who makes us miss Lori Lightfoot, has said that he's removing a statue of Washington from Chicago City Hall … but it has nothing to do with Washington being a slave owner. They're just trying to freshen up the place.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to remove the statue of former President George Washington from the hallway outside the mayor’s office on the fifth floor of City Hall in a move that, a top aide said Tuesday, has nothing to do with the first president’s role as a slave owner.
Ronnie Reese, Johnson’s communications director, said the statue “is being removed from the hallway outside the mayor’s office as we make updates to some areas around City Hall.”
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“If people want to think that, I can’t stop them. But that’s not our intent,” Reese said. “We’re just freshening up the space. Making it a bit more current. There’s a lot of Chicago icons who would be deserving of statues as well. We should be considering that also — Ida B. Wells, DuSable, Harold Washington.”
"We're just freshening up the space." Who asked for that?
BREAKING: Mayor Johnson is REMOVING George Washington from the hallways of Chicago's City Hall pic.twitter.com/aBNF5lltXL
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 16, 2024
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024
Chicago Mayor Johnson isn’t removing the crime but is removing the statues.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 16, 2024
Got it.
Over the July 4th holiday weekend, 109 people in Chicago were shot and 19 were killed. But this is the priority.
I’m old enough to remember when they said Trump was fear mongering when he predicted this would happen
— Tyler Zed (@realTylerZed) July 16, 2024
And replacing it with a statue of George Floyd I presume?
— Lado Bitnar (@LadoBitnar) July 16, 2024
Don't even say it.
This guy is an absolute abysmal mayor.
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) July 16, 2024
You just watch.
— Ben (@AndStrats) July 16, 2024
Once Washington's statue is removed, Chicago crime will plummet.
The crime rate will be in the negative.
It'll be the safest city in the world.
Not a joke.
My word as a Biden.
BREAKING: Chicago should remove Mayor Johnson.
— General™️ (@TheGeneral_0) July 16, 2024
Better idea: remove Johnson from City Hall, and send him to Cuba, where he belongs.
— Marc Rudov (@MarcRudov) July 16, 2024
It has absolutely nothing to do with race, they promise. They think it's time to freshen up the place.
No word yet about then the Washington Monument is coming down.
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