Trump promises to create 'National Garden' of racist statues

US President Donald Trump has vowed to fight those adamant to the removal of racist statues, monuments, and other symbols glorifying white supremacists jotted in America’s past.

Rights advocates and anti-racism activists opposed to the police killing of George Floyd, a handcuffed African American man in the US, demand the removal of white supremacists’ monuments.

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Trump said he would fight those aiming to remove statues of glorified white supremacists, and veto any legislation that calls for the renaming of military bases named after racist commanders jotted in history books.

On Friday in response to the nationwide demand to remove past symbols of racism, the White House unveiled a plan to create a national garden to place the monuments of past heroes in it.

The “National Garden of American Heroes”, scheduled to open prior to July 4, 2026, will include statues of a wide range of American figures, both white and black.

The White House said the garden will hold statues of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Amelia Earhart, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Ronald Reagan, as well as monuments of prominent black figures such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and Harriet Tubman, who played an important role in the emancipation of the blacks.

However, there was no mention of Malcolm X, a black human rights activist who played an important role for the blacks' rights, as well as George Floyd, whose death triggered the worldwide anti-racism movement.

Meanwhile, Trump described those demanding the removal of racist monuments and other symbols across the country as “roving gangs of wise guys, anarchists & looters.”

“[M]any of them having no idea what they are doing, indiscriminately ripping down our statues and monuments to the past,” Trump tweeted last month.

“These statues are silent teachers in solid form of stone and metal. They preserve the memory of our American story and stir in us a spirit of responsibility for the chapters yet unwritten. These works of art call forth gratitude for the accomplishments and sacrifices of our exceptional fellow citizens who, despite their flaws, placed their virtues, their talents, and their lives in the service of our Nation,” read the executive order, which was disseminated by the White House on Friday.

In related news, Trump once more threatened to take harsh action against those tearing down statutes in multiple cities across the country.

At a speech at Mount Rushmore, Trump admitted that the groups opposed to the unjust and institutionalized police brutality, racism and white supremacy in the US wanted to change the system in America.

Trump threatened anti-racism protesters tearing down statues of Confederate leaders that harsh measures, including banishment, would be imposed against them.

“[Y]ou will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished,” Trump warned them.

Trump claimed he would not let the statues, monuments and other symbols commemorating and representing the power of the white supremacists suppression of the masses in United States to be removed from public eye.

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“There is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished. Not going to happen to us,” he told a packed crowd.

“Make no mistake, this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence and hunger and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery and progress," he continued. "To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol and memory of our national heritage.”

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