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Trump's heroes for the ages: Biden collects plans for a mega project

2021-05-17T18:52:27.681Z


The then US President Donald Trump wanted to honor 244 US personalities with statues. His successor Joe Biden has now put an end to the plans.


The then US President Donald Trump wanted to honor 244 US personalities with statues.

His successor Joe Biden has now put an end to the plans.

Washington - US President Joe Biden has revoked a plan by his predecessor Donald Trump, which the latter had unveiled in no less a place than Mount Rushmore: A park with statues of American personalities - which Trump wanted to select, a total of 244 in number .

As the US magazine

Politico

reports, basketball player Kobe Bryant, baseball player Cy Young or “Jeopardy!” Presenter Alex Trebek would have been immortalized here if Trump wanted.

Name of the project, freely translated: “National Garden of American Heroes”.

Trump announced it on July 4, 2020, and the ordinance was signed on January 18, just two days before he left the White House.

The idea apparently came to Trump in the wake of the “Black Lives Matter” protests, which grew stronger last year.

They were a reaction to the violent death of the African American George Floyd.

In their wake, activists also destroyed monuments.

Biden nullifies Trump's plan against "anti-American extremism"

The ordinance spoke of "dangerous anti-American extremism" and that the Statue Park would be "America's answer" to this "ruthless attempt to wipe out our heroes, values ​​and ways of life,"

Politico

quotes

from the document

, among others

.

According to media reports, it was never clear where the money for Helden Park should have come from.

At least not from the US Congress.

US President Biden is reversing further Trump regulations

According to the report, Biden has immediately targeted another Trump decree.

It called for harsher persecution of vandalists: inside at federal monuments.

These should not fall victim to a “whim” of people who were temporarily “ignited” by “political fashions”.

According to the report, Biden has now also received this decree.

In doing so, Biden is following a familiar pattern.

Trump also liked to cash in on the decrees of his predecessor Barack Obama.

(frs)

Source: merkur

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