Oh good, we’re making Columbus great again.

Trump is taking steps toward installing near the White House a replica of a statue of famed explorer Christopher Columbus that had been tossed into Baltimore’s harbor during his first term amid protests against institutional racism.

It’s all this political correctness, you see, paying attention to the fact that Columbus was not an unmixed blessing to all the inhabitants of the landmass he bumped into on his way to China.

The White House declined to comment to the AP on plans for the statue but reaffirmed Trump’s affinity for Columbus, whose legacy has shifted as historians and educators amplify how white European figures and their descendants treated Native Americans and enslaved Africans to develop the New World.

“In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero,” said Trump spokesman David Ingle. “And he will continue to be honored as such by President Trump.”

Well, you see, it’s like this. Columbus bouncing onto this continent and making himself at home was heroic, but other people doing the same thing are invaders. It all depends on whether their ancestors were from Germany and Scotland or Mexico and Venezuela. You can usually tell by looking closely at their skin.

Trump endorses a traditional view of Columbus as leader of the 1492 mission that marked the unofficial beginning of European colonization in the Americas and the development of the modern economic and political order. But in recent years, Columbus also been recognized as a primary example of Western Europe’s conquest of the New World, its resources and its native people.

Not to mention the fact that he was the wedge that opened the door. He’s a symbol of the arrival of all those annoying Europeans who bounced in without an invitation.