On Monday afternoon the White House released an executive order detailing the figures that Trump wants represented in his National Garden of American Heroes.
Trump originally pitched the idea during a July 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore, amid nationwide protests that again brought questions of who should be memorialized through monuments into focus; across the country, statues of slave owners and Confederate officers were vandalized and removed.
In his speech, Trump said that these actions constituted a branch of “cancel culture.” Continue reading.