With less than 48 hours to go until he reverts back to a private citizen, soon-to-be-ex-President Donald Trump is busy busy busy with the important work of a nation still reeling from the attempted coup he helped inspire. And to Trump, that work evidently includes launching a massive effort to create a “National Garden of American Heroes” that seems as chaotic and random as it does unnecessary and bloated.
In a lengthy executive order published Monday afternoon, Trump cites “dangerous anti-American extremism that seeks to dismantle our country’s history, institutions, and very identity” as his impetus for creating his as-of-yet geographically ambiguous garden, which will feature dozens of statues of “historically significant” Americans.
That’s where things get weird. Continue reading.