Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump signed a decree to create a “Garden of National Heroes”, which will house sculptures of prominent American figures in politics, culture and sports. The document is available on the official website of the White House.
The decree mentions the names of Apple founder Steve Jobs, basketball player Kobe Bryant who died in a plane crash, singer Whitney Houston, Walt Disney animator, singer Frank Sinatra. In total, the list included more than 200 people.
“The Garden of National Heroes is America's response to this reckless attempt to discredit our prominent figures, national values and our entire way of life,” the American leader explained. He recalled the desecration and destruction of monuments to the leaders of the Confederacy, the first president and one of the founders of the United States, George Washington, and the author of the national anthem Francis Scott Key during the Black Lives Matter protests (BLM, Black Lives Are Important).
Trump announced the creation of such a park in July 2020, speaking at the Mount Rushmore Memorial in South Dakota. The park will be located in the open air and only monuments to the greatest “giants of the past” will get into it, the head of state specified.
He later presented his own version of the list of the greatest Americans. It includes the leader of the US Revolutionary War Benjamin Franklin, the first US Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, and presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. The President also noted the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, the founder of the Red Cross Clara Barton, the first African American baseball player Jackie Robinson and the Second World Generals George Patton and Douglas MacArthur.
