{"id":6462,"date":"2021-01-20T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/among-his-final-executive-orders-trump-lists-244-names-for-proposed-national-garden-of-american-heroes\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:33:59","slug":"among-his-final-executive-orders-trump-lists-244-names-for-proposed-national-garden-of-american-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/among-his-final-executive-orders-trump-lists-244-names-for-proposed-national-garden-of-american-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Among his final executive orders, Trump lists 244 names for proposed National Garden of American Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Just days before leaving Washington DC, soon to be former President Donald Trump issued an executive order<\/a> with a list of 244 people who could be memorialized with a statue in his proposed \u201cNational Garden of American Heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n Issued on January 18th<\/sup>, the executive order is an update to an order Trump issued in July of last year in response to heightened tensions concerning public statues and memorials. During his Independence Day speech, controversially delivered at the base of Mount Rushmore, Trump announced plans for the garden<\/a> that would honour what he called \u201cthe giants\u201d of US history. It was then that Trump created the Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes, a task force that was instructed to locate a home for the garden and drive the project forward.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAcross this Nation, belief in the greatness and goodness of America has come under attack in recent months and years by a dangerous anti-American extremism that seeks to dismantle our country\u2019s history, institutions, and very identity,\u201d reads the order in part. It goes on to compare growing frustration with statues devoted to problematic people and events and the vandalism of memorials to the 9\/11 terrorist attacks and the US Civil War. According to Trump, the garden would be \u201cAmerica\u2019s answer\u201d to the \u201creckless attempt to erase [America\u2019s] heroes, values, and entire way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n Figures from both recent and more distant history have made the list but more than 70 percent of those included so far are men. Their accomplishments are varied, ranging from the sciences, to politics, to sports, to activism, among other fields. Among the artists who could be honoured are Ansel Adams, Charles Wilson Peale, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Norman Rockwell.<\/p>\n The garden, which is unlikely to actually come to fruition<\/a>, is certainly an unusual suggestion that has raised eyebrows and drawn criticism. In October, Trump even joked about naming the garden after himself. Executive director of the American Historical Association James Grossman said<\/a> the list of suggested honourees ranged from \u201codd to probably inappropriate to provocative.\u201d<\/p>\n