Portrait of Confederate Gen. R.E. Lee Rehung at West Point

Sunday, August 31, 2025

A portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform with a slave guiding his horse in the background will be rehung in West Point's library, the Army confirmed to Military.com on Friday.

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... The reinstallation, which was first reported by The New York Times, marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to reverse the work of a congressionally mandated commission charged with scrubbing tributes to the Confederacy from the military.

In a brief email Friday, an Army spokesperson confirmed to Military.com that the Times report was accurate. West Point did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while the Pentagon deferred to the Army. ...

Congress created the commission in 2020, overriding a veto Trump issued during his first term, to examine how to remove Confederate names, statues and other tributes from military property. The law also mandated that the Pentagon implement the commission's recommendations. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-30 05:47 PM | Reply

So, Pres Trump, once again, going against laws passed by Congress?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-30 05:48 PM | Reply

Virtue Signaling.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-30 08:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

FAGAT

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-31 03:28 PM | Reply

Hey, everyone! Look over here! Do not look at those congressmen and those women who say they are victims of that Epstein guy ...
-Drinky Pete and the Misters of War

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-31 05:09 PM | Reply

Well... they already have a gallery of losers... so why not.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-08-31 07:14 PM | Reply

It's the military's equivalent of a "participation trophy".

#7 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-08-31 07:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's the military's equivalent of a "participation trophy".

They have a lot of those. Ron DeSantis has a few of them.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-31 08:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm fascinated that leftists of today imagine that their outrage is somehow more relevant than the opinions of the people that actually were there and witnessed events firsthand. And as usual, the arrogance of self-righteousness compels them to attempt erasure and rewriting of history to fit their manufactured consensus, canceling much but understanding little.

#9 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-01 03:40 AM | Reply

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#10 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-01 03:43 AM | Reply

Release the Epstein Files

#11 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-09-01 05:15 AM | Reply

"I _____ do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever ... "

That is the oath Robert E. Lee took.
It's the oath he broke when he decided to become a traitor.

#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-01 06:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Only a godam Stalinist would try to erase history. What would the darkies have to complain about if we erased the Civil War? I'm sure they'd think of something, but...

#13 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-09-01 10:51 AM | Reply

"Only a godam Stalinist would try to erase history. "

Indeed. However removing statues and paintings is not erasing history. If you want to see actual history erasing watch what Trumpy is doing.

Scholars say Trump administration is trying to erase America's non-white history

MARCH 29, 2025

www.npr.org

RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY
Executive Orders
March 27, 2025
www.whitehouse.gov

Removing documents and restoring monuments won't change America's history
missouriindependent.com

Disappearing Data: Why We Must Stop Trump's Attempts to Erase Our Communities
CENSUS AND DATA EQUITY RESOURCES 02.20.25
civilrights.org

Trump wants to erase history in parks and museums. Catholics should insist on the truth.
www.americamagazine.org

Newsweek Op-ed: The Trump Administration Is Not Just Erasing History, They're Rewriting the Future and Attacking Democracy
www.lwv.org

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-01 11:39 AM | Reply

Why not? But it does lose significance in light of today's traitors, Roberts, Miller and Vought. No one in history has done the amount of damage to our country as they have.

#15 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-09-01 12:02 PM | Reply

King George III, Adolph Hitler coming soon......because we know:"There are good people on both sides."

#16 | Posted by danni at 2025-09-01 12:14 PM | Reply

No one in history has done the amount of damage to our country as they have.

#15 | POSTED BY YODAGIRL

The Civil war killed 620,000 Americans and wrecked the southern economy.

The Covid war killed 1.2 million Americans and wrecked the American AND the global economies.

The Civil war was inevitable.

The Covid war was preventable.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-01 12:15 PM | Reply

Body counts aren't what I was implying DB, it's the damage to our Constitution.

#18 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-09-01 12:26 PM | Reply

"The Civil war killed 620,000 Americans and wrecked the southern economy."

Did The South not think of that before they started the war.

Or were they so in love with their White Supremacy that it was worth forcing The South into poverty forever.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-01 12:34 PM | Reply

Body counts aren't what I was implying DB, it's the damage to our Constitution.

#18 | POSTED BY YODAGIRL

True. And I agree.

Body counts are only one obvious way to measure the damage.

I agree it could take decades for our democratic institutions to recover. If we can recover.

Unfortunately Americans literally voted for this. And only Americans can undo the damage. No one is coming to save us from ourselves.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-01 01:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Or were they so in love with their White Supremacy that it was worth forcing The South into poverty forever.

#19 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Confederates believed that God was on their side and they could win in the end and that slavery would be acceptable to all.

Like maga maroons think God is on their side and in the end they can win and Americans will accept their inhumanity to man.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-01 01:15 PM | Reply

So worried about 'white supremacy' but no problem with 'jewish supremacy'

#22 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-01 05:40 PM | Reply

Confederates believed that God was on their side and they could win in the end and that slavery would be acceptable to all.

sounds familiar- who is it again, believes god is on their side and all others are here to serve them?

#23 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-01 05:42 PM | Reply

@#23 ... sounds familiar- who is it again, believes god is on their side and all others are here to serve them? ...

The White Christian Nationalists?

#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-01 05:48 PM | Reply

"who is it again, believes god is on their side and all others are here to serve them?"

Quick question: Were you ever married? How'd that work out.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-01 05:49 PM | Reply

i had no idea rex zeitgeist was antisemitic.

#26 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-01 05:56 PM | Reply

I shouldn't tell you this, but you're good people and deserve to know-
The real Master Race is brain worms. Everyone that has ever eaten pork is hosting them. G-d tried to warn you.

#27 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-01 06:11 PM | Reply