The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020. The statue is the only outdoor monument to a Confederate leader in the nation’s capital. The National Park Service announced plans to restore it in August, following executive orders by President Trump. Critics argue the statue endorses Pike's views, while some conservatives see its removal as vandalism. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.'s non-voting representative in Congress, called the restoration "morally objectionable" and proposed legislation to remove it permanently.