Exclusive | NYC museum banished Teddy Roosevelt statue to North Dakota but still demands it has a trigger warning

Speak softly and carry a big trigger warning.A beloved statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt that was removed from the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History has been banished to the North Dakota Badlands.However, New York City’s woke overclass still demands control over how it is to be presented, even though it is no longer in the state.The statue was removed in 2020 at the height of the George Floyd riots, when it was branded racist due to its of its depiction of Roosevelt on horseback accompanied by an American Indian and African man on foot.Race activists blasted the statue’s “hierarchical” composition with Roosevelt as the towering, central figure between two non-white companions, completely missing the sculptor’s original intent.Now, as part of a long-term loan agreement with the newly-opened Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND, the statue’s new home is required to “establish an Advisory Council composed of representatives of the Indigenous Tribal and Black communities” in order to “guide the recontextualization of the statue,” a representative for the New York City Parks Department confirmed to The Post.The library has yet to confirm what this will look like, but some see New York’s finger wag from 1,700 miles away as a kind of cultural colonialism.“It’s superimposing Lower East Side values on North Dakota and the Midwest.Liberals are control freaks.

They want the whole country to think like they do.Whereas North Dakota does not care in the least how Manhattan thinks,” Mike Gonzalez, author of “BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution,” told The Post.“North Dakota doesn’t even know what street Manhattan is on, to paraphrase Al Capone.”The statue was one part of a larger sculptural array installed in 1940 to memorialize Roosevelt, the 26th president and former New York governor.

This followed a 1936 dedication that made the American Museum of Natural History itself the o...