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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/art-history-fact-check-trump-can-t-tell-the-difference-between-teddy-roosevelt-and-an-anonymous-remington-cowboy
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As statues glorifying white supremacy and colonialist figures find themselves under increased social scrutiny and attacks amid anti-racism protests, many conservatives in the US have claimed these monuments are essential for teaching American history to the public. That was the point President Trump was trying to make in a Fox News interview on Sunday as he gestured to a bronze horse-and-rider work on display in the Oval Office that he suggested was the likeness of former president Theodore Roosevelt, a controversial statue of whom is due to be removed from outside of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The only problem? It is not Roosevelt.
Instead, it is an unnamed fictional cowboy known as The Broncho Buster, made by the late 19th-century painter and illustrator Frederic Remington, who is best remembered for his idealised depictions of the American West.
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As statues glorifying white supremacy and colonialist figures find themselves under increased social scrutiny and attacks amid anti-racism protests, many conservatives in the US have claimed these monuments are essential for teaching American history to the public. That was the point President Trump was trying to make in a Fox News interview on Sunday as he gestured to a bronze horse-and-rider work on display in the Oval Office that he suggested was the likeness of former president Theodore Roosevelt, a controversial statue of whom is due to be removed from outside of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The only problem? It is not Roosevelt.
Instead, it is an unnamed fictional cowboy known as The Broncho Buster, made by the late 19th-century painter and illustrator Frederic Remington, who is best remembered for his idealised depictions of the American West.
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Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah for ignorant and proud
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