Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A statue of a Confederate general that was torn down and set on fire in 2020 during social justice protests in Washington has been reinstalled under orders from President Donald Trump. General Albert Pike’s statue has long been a source of controversy, as have many Confederate monuments across the US which were erected decades after the Civil War. The National Park Service announced in August its plan to return the refurbished statue, after Trump signed an executive order called ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.'” [editor’s note: Pike resigned his Confederate generalship during the war, and after the war denounced the Confederacy and requested (and received) a pardon; the statue was erected to acknowledge his contributions to freemasonry, not his repudiated Confederate affiliation – TLK] (10/28/25)