Read Trump’s picks for his ‘National Garden of American Heroes’

• President Donald Trump ordered the constructing of a “Nationwide Backyard of Heroes” which incorporates statues of an eclectic vary of candidates.
• The checklist contains Supreme Court docket decide Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the basketball participant Kobe Bryant, and the host of the TV present Jeopardy.
• Learn the total checklist of Trump’s picks beneath.
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President Donald Trump has ordered the constructing of a “Nationwide Backyard of Heroes” which incorporates statues of a variety of candidates together with Supreme Court docket decide Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the basketball participant Kobe Bryant, and the host of the TV present Jeopardy.

Trump issued an executive order on Monday, the penultimate day of his presidency, directing the development of a statue-filled backyard “to mirror the superior splendor of our nation’s timeless exceptionalism.”

Trump first proposed the statuary park at Mount Rushmore in July final yr because the nation engaged in a heated cultural debate across the renaming of Accomplice monuments and statues.

He claimed that the US was under threat from a “left-wing cultural revolution” and suggesting that activists have been in search of to “tear down each statue.”

The executive order issued Monday didn’t specify a location for Trump’s proposed statue park however listed over 200 names of individuals he known as “American heroes.”

The president mentioned it was “America’s reply” to a “reckless try to erase our heroes, values, and full life.”

The checklist included sports activities stars together with Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant, and Herb Brooks, alongside singers together with Whitney Houston and dozens of historic figures together with Christopher Columbus and several other former presidents.

There have been additionally aviation pioneers, writers, inventors, musicians, navy veterans, industrialists, former presidents, and actors together with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

“The gates of a wonderful new backyard will quickly open to the general public the place the legends of America’s previous shall be remembered,” reads the chief order.

“The Nationwide Backyard shall be constructed to mirror the superior splendor of our nation’s timeless exceptionalism. It will likely be a spot the place residents, younger and outdated, can renew their imaginative and prescient of greatness,” he mentioned.

The backyard seems unlikely ever to be constructed given the order was issued throughout Trump’s final week in workplace, and Biden has promised to spend his first day within the White Home reversing Trump’s signature insurance policies.

Learn Trump’s full checklist of ‘American Heroes’

• Ansel Adams
• John Adams
• Samuel Adams
• Muhammad Ali
• Luis Walter Alvarez
• Susan B. Anthony
• Hannah Arendt
• Louis Armstrong
• Neil Armstrong
• Crispus Attucks
• John James Audubon
• Lauren Bacall
• Clara Barton
• Todd Beamer
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Roy Benavidez
• Ingrid Bergman
• Irving Berlin
• Humphrey Bogart
• Daniel Boone
• Norman Borlaug
• William Bradford
• Herb Brooks
• Kobe Bryant
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Sitting Bull
• Frank Capra
• Andrew Carnegie
• Charles Carroll John Carroll
• George Washington Carver
• Johnny Money
• Joshua Chamberlain
• Whittaker Chambers
• Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman
• Ray Charles
• Julia Baby
• Gordon Chung-Hoon
• William Clark, Henry Clay
• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
• Roberto Clemente
• Grover Cleveland
• Purple Cloud
• William F. “Buffalo Invoice” Cody
• Nat King Cole
• Samuel Colt
• Christopher Columbus
• Calvin Coolidge
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Davy Crockett
• Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
• Miles Davis
• Dorothy Day
• Joseph H. De Castro
• Emily Dickinson
• Walt Disney
• William “Wild Invoice” Donovan
• Jimmy Doolittle
• Desmond Doss
• Frederick Douglass
• Herbert Henry Dow
• Katharine Drexel
• Peter Drucker
• Amelia Earhart
• Thomas Edison
• Jonathan Edwards
• Albert Einstein
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Duke Ellington
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Medgar Evers
• David Farragut
• The Marquis de La Fayette
• Mary Fields
• Henry Ford
• George Fox
• Aretha Franklin,
• Benjamin Franklin
• Milton Friedman
• Robert Frost
• Gabby Gabreski
• Bernardo de Gálvez
• Lou Gehrig
• Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Cass Gilbert
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• John Glenn
• Barry Goldwater
• Samuel Gompers
• Alexander Goode
• Carl Gorman
• Billy Graham
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Nellie Grey
• Nathanael Greene
• Woody Guthrie
• Nathan Hale
• William Frederick “Bull” Halsey, Jr.
• Alexander Hamilton
• Ira Hayes
• Hans Christian Heg
• Ernest Hemingway
• Patrick Henry
• Charlton Heston
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Billie Vacation
• Bob Hope
• Johns Hopkins
• Grace Hopper
• Sam Houston
• Whitney Houston
• Julia Ward Howe
• Edwin Hubble
• Daniel Inouye
• Andrew Jackson
• Robert H. Jackson
• Mary Jackson
• John Jay
• Thomas Jefferson
• Steve Jobs
• Katherine Johnson
• Barbara Jordan
• Chief Joseph
• Elia Kazan
• Helen Keller
• John F. Kennedy
• Francis Scott Key
• Coretta Scott King
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Russell Kirk
• Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Henry Knox
• Tadeusz Kościuszko
• Harper Lee
• Pierre Charles L’Enfant
• Meriwether Lewis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Vince Lombardi
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Clare Boothe Luce
• Douglas MacArthur
• Dolley Madison
• James Madison
• George Marshall
• Thurgood Marshall
• William Mayo
• Christa McAuliffe
• William McKinley
• Louise McManus
• Herman Melville
• Thomas Merton
• George P. Mitchell
• Maria Mitchell
• William “Billy” Mitchell
• Samuel Morse
• Lucretia Mott
• John Muir
• Audie Murphy
• Edward Murrow
• John Neumann
• Annie Oakley
• Jesse Owens
• Rosa Parks
• George S. Patton, Jr.
• Charles Willson Peale
• William Penn
• Oliver Hazard Perry
• John J. Pershing
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Clark Poling
• John Russell Pope
• Elvis Presley
• Jeannette Rankin
• Ronald Reagan
• Walter Reed
• William Rehnquist
• Paul Revere
• Henry Hobson Richardson
• Hyman Rickover
• Sally Journey
• Matthew Ridgway
• Jackie Robinson
• Norman Rockwell
• Caesar Rodney
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Betsy Ross
• Babe Ruth
• Sacagawea
• Jonas Salk
• John Singer Sargent
• Antonin Scalia
• Norman Schwarzkopf
• Junípero Serra
• Elizabeth Ann Seton
• Robert Gould Shaw
• Fulton Sheen
• Alan Shepard
• Frank Sinatra
• Margaret Chase Smith
• Bessie Smith
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Jimmy Stewart
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Gilbert Stuart
• Anne Sullivan
• William Howard Taft
• Maria Tallchief
• Maxwell Taylor
• Tecumseh
• Kateri Tekakwitha
• Shirley Temple
• Nikola Tesla
• Jefferson Thomas
• Henry David Thoreau
• Jim Thorpe
• Augustus Tolton
• Alex Trebek
• Harry S. Truman
• Sojourner Reality
• Harriet Tubman
• Dorothy Vaughan
• C. T. Vivian
• John von Neumann
• Thomas Ustick Walter
• Sam Walton
• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington
• John Washington
• John Wayne
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Phillis Wheatley
• Walt Whitman
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Roger Williams
• John Winthrop
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Orville Wright
• Wilbur Wright
• Alvin C. York
• Cy Younger
• Lorenzo de Zavala