Trump makes plans to mark the nation's 250th anniversary celebration and recognize 'American heroes' [View all]
Source: Associated Press, via ABC News
Trump makes plans to mark the nation's 250th anniversary celebration and recognize 'American heroes'
President Donald Trump is making plans to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence with an “extraordinary celebration” and a new national monument
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press
January 29, 2025, 12:37 PM
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is making plans to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence with an “extraordinary celebration” and a new national monument.
Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday establishing a task force to coordinate and plan the event, according to a White House document shared with The Associated Press. The United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary — also known as the semiquincentennial — on July 4, 2026.
The order is also expected to revive Trump's plans to build a “ National Garden of American Heroes ” with statues memorializing 250 historical figures and to commission artists for the first 100.
In a 2020 speech celebrating Independence Day at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, Trump first announced his plans to create what he said would be “a new monument to the giants of our past." Trump himself curated the list of who was to be included — Davy Crockett, Billy Graham, Whitney Houston, Harriet Tubman and Antonin Scalia, among others. ... No site was selected and the garden was never funded by Congress. President Joe Biden abolished the task force that Trump formed the create the monument.
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You knew this was never going to go away.
Hat tip, Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/trump-revives-plan-for-garden-of-american-heroes/
Trump Revives Plan For “Garden Of American Heroes”
January 29, 2025
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On January 18, 2021, Executive Order 13934 was amended to list who would be in the "National Garden of American Heroes."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11636694
Sat Jan 18, 2025
On this day, January 18, 2021, Trump signed Executive Order 13978: "Building the National Garden of American Heroes."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11636691
Sat Jan 18, 2025
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