Trump Resurrected the Statue of a Slave Owner. Its Pedestal Cost Taxpayers $527K. ^16.4%

Mother Jones - By Dan Friedman, Abby Vesoulis - 6/18/2026, 11:30 AM

Negativity Bias 20.5% - Unattributed Quote 13.5% - Framing Effect 8.8%

In April, the National Park Service placed a statue of Caesar Rodney, one of America’s Founding Fathers, in Freedom Plaza, a small park near the White House. That installation drew notice, and criticism, because Rodney, a plantation owner from Delaware who played a key role in crafting the Declaration of Independence, enslaved people—a... more