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| Biden kills Trump's sculpture garden of ‘American heroes' |
| 2021-05-15 |
| [Politico] President Joe Biden on Friday revoked several of the executive orders issued in his predecessor’s last year in office that were penned to address conservative cultural grievances, including the sculpture garden he proposed on July 4 at an event at Mount Rushmore. Biden rescinded a pair of executive orders tied to the creation of what former President Donald Trump envisioned as a "National Garden of American Heroes," one of which was signed on Jan. 18, just days before Trump was set to leave office. The now-rescinded order warned of "dangerous anti-American extremism" and stated that the garden would be "America’s answer to this reckless attempt to erase our heroes, values and entire way of life." In addition to seminal political and historical figures, Trump’s garden would have included an array of high-profile individuals like basketball player Kobe Bryant, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek and legendary baseball pitcher Cy Young. It was virtually assured that Biden would not move forward with the project, which was put forward in large part as a counter to last summer’s racial justice protests and the debate surrounding the removal of monuments to Confederate icons. "These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come before us and to generations yet unborn," read the text of another one of Trump’s orders that Biden nixed, which directed the Justice Department to prioritize prosecuting people who vandalize federal monuments. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 The next American president should revoke EVERY EO by EVERY democrat president, no matter what they are. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2021-05-15 11:39 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-05-15 10:17 |