US President Donald Trump has a historic opportunity to cement his place as the leader of western civilization by helping Greece broker an agreement with the British to bring back the Parthenon Marbles, a Greek minister told Breitbart News.

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who is also vice president of Greece’s governing New Democracy party, said Trump “could press the British government to make the right move.”

“The leader that will make this happen will be a part of the Parthenon’s story, and as you realize the Parthenon has been here for 2,500 years and will be here after another 2,500 years,” he said in an interview with Breitbart published on Wednesday. “I’m not exaggerating.”

“I’m totally sure that President Trump, as the natural leader of the Western world, realizes that representing the spirit of the American grandfathers of your democracy, which all of them were very well educated – they had a huge respect about ancient Greece and ancient Rome, which they originally took their their values and built the American democracy, the American Republic,” Georgiadis told Breitbart News.

The Parthenon Marbles are pieces of the world-famous Parthenon that British Lord Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, hacked off the monument and took back to the UK when Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire.

Another conservative MP, Konstantinos Kyranakis, who is also the secretary general of the governing party, told Breitbart News that Trump’s legacy would endure for “centuries” if he got the British to give back the marbles.

“If President Trump were to help make that happen, his contribution would extend far beyond diplomacy,” Kyranakis said in a statement. “It would represent one of those rare moments when political leadership serves civilization itself. It would demonstrate that true leadership is measured not only by shaping the future, but also by preserving the foundations upon which that future is built. The reunification of the Parthenon Marbles would not rewrite history. It would complete it. We believe President Trump, as the true leader of the West, has the opportunity to leave a legacy that endures across centuries.”

Endy Zemenides, the executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), told Breitbart News that the British excuses are running thin and that if Trump engaged here and got this done it would be massive for western civilization.

“It’s time to reverse history’s biggest theft and the British excuses for why they can’t give the Parthenon sculptures back don’t hold water anymore,” Zemenides said.

SOURCE: https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1311741/trump-will-be-a-part-of-parthenons-story-by-helping-greece-secure-return-of-marbles/