Skip To Content

Advertisement

BuzzFeed News

People Are Making Fun Of Confederate Statues On Twitter After Trump Called Them "Beautiful"

"They're not even good statues."

On Thursday, President Trump tweeted that the removal of "beautiful" Confederate statues and monuments across America was ripping apart "the history and culture of our great country" and that their "beauty ... will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"

@realDonaldTrump / Twitter / Via Twitter: @realDonaldTrump
@realDonaldTrump / Twitter / Via Twitter: @realDonaldTrump

Advertisement

In response, some people on Twitter began to make jokes about the "beauty" of Confederate statues.

Note: this privately funded statue of Confederate Army member and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest is in Tennessee and on private land.

@ryanbeckwith / Twitter / Via Twitter: @ryanbeckwith

Advertisement

@KrangTNelson / Twitter / Via Twitter: @KrangTNelson

(Another note: This tweet is a joke and does not actually depict a statue of Jefferson Davis. Duh.)

@TheOnion / Twitter / Via Twitter: @TheOnion

Advertisement

Others brought up statues they thought should be preserved instead.

@JohnPoveromo / Twitter / Via Twitter: @JohnPoveromo
@McJesse / Twitter / Via Twitter: @McJesse

Advertisement

@vijayprashad / Twitter / Via Twitter: @vijayprashad

Or taken down.

@j_millerworks / Twitter / Via Twitter: @j_millerworks

Advertisement

@buttpraxis / Twitter / Via Twitter: @buttpraxis

And some jokes just focused on Trump's comments that removing the statues was "ripping apart" American history.

@JOEL9ONE / Twitter / Via Twitter: @JOEL9ONE

Advertisement

@libshipwreck / Via Twitter: @libshipwreck
@pixelatedboat / Twitter / Via Twitter: @pixelatedboat

Advertisement

@MikeFalzone / Twitter / Via Twitter: @MikeFalzone

Advertisement

Comments
Unable to load comments. Try reloading this page or viewing the full site. Pop out
Show more Expand