Exclusive | White House celebrates the dismantling of multimillion-dollar BLM Plaza: Eyesore of a virtue signal
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s White House hailed the removal of Black Lives Matter Plaza this week as a “step in the right direction,” and dissed the multimillion dollar display as a divisive “relic” to left wing radicals.Construction crews started breaking up the road outside the executive mansion on Monday after a Republican bill led by Rep.
Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) ordered DC’s government to junk the mural and rename the plaza — or risk losing federal funding.“D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza was an eyesore of a virtue signal that did nothing to better the lives of black Americans in our nation’s capital,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields told The Post.“President Trump campaigned on cleaning up Washington, D.C., and this is a major step in the right direction.” Trump recently posted a video on Truth Social showing construction crews jackhammering away at the hazard yellow letters painted over 16th Avenue, but hasn’t yet commented on the rebranding of the plaza.After the removal is completed, the stretch of street leading up to the White House, will be renamed “Liberty Plaza.” The $610,000, two-month-long project was inspired by Trump’s promise to “clean up Washington, DC,” Clyde said.“BLM is a radical, defund-the-police organization — but we are not a defund-the-police nation.Yet the left has allowed this deeply divisive slogan to shamefully stain the streets of America’s capital city for nearly five years,” he added.He continued: “It’s past time for Congress to exercise its constitutional authority over Washington’s affairs to remove BLM Plaza and rename the street to Liberty Plaza.
Our capital city must serve as a beacon of freedom, patriotism, and safety — not wokeness, divisiveness, and lawlessness.”The “Black Lives Matter” mural cost the city $4.8 million to construct, with an additional $3 million used to put benches, signage and other pedestrian tools nearby, Mayor Muriel Bowser said in 20...