Trump Revives Plans for a ‘National Garden of American Heroes’
An executive order would erect 250 statues, a sign the president is not overlooking symbolic gestures in his first 100 days.
The Statue of Freedom is displayed on top of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump is planning 250 new statues to celebrate the US 250th anniversary.
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Statues of suffragette Susan B. Anthony, Lakota resistance leader Sitting Bull and Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant could be erected in a new national park, thanks to a monumental push from the White House.
President Donald Trump revived his quixotic first-term push to build a memorial sculpture garden with an executive order on Jan. 29. The new action reinstates his orders from July 2020 and January 2021 to establish a National Garden of American Heroes. This proposed park — location TBD — would showcase 250 statues of American historical figures to celebrate the country’s 250th anniversary, among them Babe Ruth, Harriet Tubman and Edgar Allen Poe.