Donald Trump has vowed to return a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office as a ‘mark of respect’ to Britain’s great wartime leader.
The bronze bust was removed by ‘woke’ Joe Biden when he defeated Trump in 2020 and was replaced with a bust of Hispanic union leader Cesar Chavez.
A self-professed Anglophile whose mother was Scottish, Trump has described Churchill as his idol.
A source close to Trump said: ‘One of the first things he will do is bring the Churchill bust back into the Oval Office as a mark of respect.’
‘Donald idolizes Churchill and believes he’s the greatest leader the world has ever seen. He will restore him to a position of honor.’
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Trump has previously called the Oscar-winning film The Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Churchill, as ‘my favorite film ever.’
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The Churchill bust, by English modernist sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, was a gift from the Wartime Friends of Winston Churchill to President Lyndon B Johnson in 1965.
It took pride of place in the Oval Office until 2009 when Barack Obama replaced it with one of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
At the time former prime minister Boris Johnson, who penned a best-selling biography of Churchill, described the Obama’s snub as ‘an ancestral dislike of the British Empire’.
When Trump beat Hillary Clinton – who ran for the White House after Obama served the maximum two terms in office – in the 2016 election he immediately removed the Martin Luther King bust and restored Churchill ‘to his rightful place.’
