Trump asks Smithsonian to install ‘Colossus statue’ of George Washington with exhibit

September 12, 2026 · 7:32 pm 1 sources

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• Trump asks Smithsonian to install ‘Colossus statue’ of George Washington with exhibit
  The Guardian · September 12, 2026 19:32
  Trump, again trying to curate museum, says exhibit would stay until 2032 for 300th anniversary of Washington’s birth Donald Trump asked the Smithsonian Institution to install a 30ft “Colossus statue” of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History, and a special exhibit…