Trump orders creation of 'national heroes' garden
US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of a good "National Backyard of American Heroes" to defend what he cell phone calls "our great national report" against those that vandalize statues.
His executive order gives a new task force 60 days to present plans, including a spot, for the garden.
He insists the brand new statues should be lifelike, "not abstract or perhaps modernist".
We statues have been pulled down because the police killing of an unarmed dark-colored man, George Floyd in May.
Monuments from the slave-owning Confederacy through the Civil War in the us have been especially targeted found in the nationwide protests ignited by the loss of life of Floyd found in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a good white police officer knelt on his neck for practically nine minutes.
President Trump features defended Confederate symbols as part of American heritage.
In a speech to tag Independence Trip to Mount Rushmore, he condemned the anti-racism protesters who toppled statues.
He said America's national heritage had been threatened - an emotive appeal for patriotism.
The garden - to maintain a place of natural splendor near a city - is to be opened up by 4 July 2026, Mr Trump's executive order says. State authorities and civic organisations happen to be invited to donate statues for it.
President Trump's selection of historical statistics to be commemorated in the garden may very well be controversial.
The set of "historically significant" Americans includes predictably Founding Fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but also frontiersman Davy Crockett, evangelical Christian preacher Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan and World War Two heroes Douglas MacArthur and George Patton.
There may also be statues of African American civil rights campaigners Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr.
Controversially, Mr Trump includes non-Americans who "made substantive historical contributions to the discovery, advancement, or independence of the future United States".
So the garden can have statues of Christopher Columbus, Junipero Serra and the Marquis de Lafayette.
Columbus and the Spanish Catholic missionary Serra are definately not heroic for Native Us citizens, because their "discoveries" resulted in the enslavement and exploitation of indigenous persons by white colonists.
America's early economic production also relied on slavery - which makes some of the traditional national heroes dubious for African Americans.
The Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and military commander, led American troops in key battles against the British in the American Revolution.
