The Trump administration has officially reinstalled the controversial Confederate General Albert Pike statue in Washington, D.C., five years after it was toppled by demonstrators during the 2020 racial justice protests. The 11-foot-tall bronze statue which sits on a 16-foot granite pedestal, was put back up near Judiciary Square over the past weekend.
The statue was pulled down with ropes, vandalized, and set on fire on June 19, 2020, as a wave of protests demanding racial justice swept the nation following George Floyd’s murder.. To many, the Confederate statue was a symbol of systemic racism, and for years, its presence in the nation’s capital had been a sore spot. It had been sitting in storage since then, but now, it’s back, all thanks to an effort stemming from Trump’s 2025 executive orders.
