Why Columbus Day was not about Columbus.

[Ocelot II]

2. Almost every successive immigrant group was treated as inferior interlopers.

The Irish, the Italians, and the eastern European Jews probably got the worst of it at first, but even German and Scandinavian Protestants were frequently treated as ignorant and culturally backward. Many immigrants actually ended up returning to whatever their old country had been because America the Beautiful wasn't quite what it was cracked up to be. Once they or their descendants assimilated, though, formerly despised immigrants started pulling up the drawbridge behind them to keep out newer immigrants - Chinese laborers in the early 20th century, Japanese immigrants who were treated appallingly during WWII, and now it's Hispanic people from Mexico, central and south America. Everybody has to have someone to hate, I guess. Not to mention all the African "immigrants" who were kidnapped and "immigrated" involuntarily.

And then there's Trump, who - obviously having no idea of the history or original purpose of Columbus Day, decides it can't also be called Indigenous People's Day, as it still is in many states. Because who cares about the people whose land was stolen by the immigrants who then successively discriminated against each other?