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Donald J. Trump O @realDonaldTrump I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent. 11:46 AM · Jun 23, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone 38K Retweets and comments 124K Likes Donald J. Trump O @realDonaldTrump · 2h Replying to @realDonald Trump .This action is taken effective immediately, but may also be used retroactively for destruction or vandalism already caused. There will be no exceptions! O 5.4K 27 18.8K 78.3K

Replace Columbus statues with breathable air. Replace Columbus statues with kitty cats. Replace Columbus statues with Columbo. Replace Columbus statues with Magical Voyage Columbus.

bhasy @notallbhas Italian Americans are going to be fuming rn so here is a proposal. Replace every Columbus statue with Danny Devito.

Jaron R. M. Johnson @JaronRMJohnson Tear down the Christopher Columbus statue in downtown Columbus, and replace it with another statue of Corn, you cowards.

james @dartschoo1 Replace every Columbus statue with one of a TRUE Italian hero

I ACAB Calloway @songforacarter It's time to replace Columbus with a real Italian hero.

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Replace Statues With… refers to a series of tweets which offer humorous suggestions of statues that could replace statues of controversial historical figures. The jokes began growing popular when several statues of Confederate generals were removed or destroyed as a result of 2017 protests and saw a second rise in popularity when statues were removed or destroyed as a result of the 2020 George Floyd Protests.

Origin

Jokes about replacing statues depicting controversial historical figures began growing popular online in 2017. One of the earliest known examples was tweeted by user @IanBoothby,^[1] who on March 22nd, 2017 suggested replacing all statues of Christopher Columbus with fictional detective Lieutenant Columbo, gaining over 150 retweets and 300 likes (shown below).

lan Boothby @lanBoothby Here's my suggestion, take all the statues of Columbus, replace them with Columbo. >

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Jokes began growing more popular that year when several Confederate statues in America were either removed or toppled as a result of protests against the 2017 Unite the Right Rally. A petition was organized to replace Confederate statues in New Orleans with statues of Britney Spears.^[3] On November 13th, user @TeddyRedder^[2] posted a suggestion that statues be replaced with statues of Chill Cat (shown below, left). On September 21st, Twitter user @TogetherPangea^[4] tweeted suggesting Confederate statues be replaced with statues of Buc-ee, the mascot of Texas convenient store Buc-ee's.

Ted for stack @TeddyRedder · Nov 13, 2017 remove all monuments to the Confederacy and the Founders, and replace them with statues of prominent cats

T-PAN-GO @TogetherPangea They should just replace all those confederate statues with statues of Bucee 8 Buc-ee's Beaver 4:22 PM · Sep 21, 2017 · Twitter for iPhone

Jokes surged again in 2020 amidst the George Floyd protests, which saw the removal of several statues across America and notably the toppling of the statue of Edward Colton, a 17th-century slave trader, in Bristol, England.^[5] For example, Twitter user @BYaugs^[6] suggested a statue of the Pokémon Bulbasaur, gaining over 230 retweets and 650 likes (shown below, left). User @moeiswe^[7] suggested replacing statues with statues of Hello Kitty, gaining over 30 retweets and 110 likes (shown below, right).

🤙 @BYaugs · Jun 8 Proposal to replace all Confederate statues with an ACTUAL important historical figure.

rosh @moeiswe replace all racist statues with this WELCOME Co-creationarts 11:06 AM · Jun 8, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone >

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Ethan @ewmessinger17 What if we replace all confederate statues with this guy? He may be a jerk, but at least he's not racist. He hates all humans equally. OO dett

Chartisse @SnowmanEmbiid Replace all confederate statues with Iverson fits gettyimages JEFF KOWALSKY 12:41 PM · Jun 8, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

Bonk / BLM @HahaMakesGlass I have an idea of what we can replace the statues of racists with

ezra O @ezra_mcconachie tear down all the statues and replace them with these ADVE TISIN 8:12 AM · Jun 8, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

Yugioh Forbidden Memes @yugiohforbidden Let's replace the confederate statues with something of actual importance HE DUELED FOR OUR FREEDOM 11:02 PM · Jun 7, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

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External References

^[1] Twitter – ianboothby

^[2] Twitter – TeddyRedder

^[3] Buzzfeed – There's A Petition To Replace All The Confederate Monuments In New Orleans With Britney Spears Statues

^[4] Twitter – TogetherPangea

^[5] CNN – Protesters tear down statue of slave trader as anti-racism demonstrations take place worldwide

^[6] Twitter – @byaugs

^[7] Twitter – @moeiswe

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esofakingleegood Andrew Jackson: please don't tear me down. I'm undeniably a pos but l'm a part of your history. Wife: honey, I just don't understand why you want me to take down the statue of my ex. He's part of my history. Husband: idk I guess it just seems like we are celebrating a piece of your history that doesn't need to be celebrated. CENSORED

In Sweden, they called for the removal of the statue of Charles XII. and its replacement by Greta Thunberg - Main News

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