A bronze Theodore Roosevelt monument has been hauled away from its longtime perch outside the American Museum of Natural History
Theodore Roosevelt, once revered enough to be chosen as one of four US presidents immortalized on Mount Rushmore, is now deemed too offensive for his statue to remain outside a museum that his father co-founded in New York City.
A bronze statue of Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by a Native American and an African man, was removed with a crane and hauled away on Wednesday night. The monument had stood prominently outside Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History for more than 80 years, but it’s now being moved to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota.
The statue of President Teddy Roosevelt (Progressive), has been removed from New York, because…reasons.
This is what fascists do.
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— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) January 20, 2022
The museum had long been proud of its association with the Roosevelt family. In fact, Theodore Roosevelt Sr. was one of the four philanthropists who co-founded the institution in 1869. His son, who went on to become America’s 26th president, was born in Manhattan and served as New York’s governor at the dawn of the 20th century.
