These are the statues that Trump wants to include in the “National Garden of American Heroes”.

At a time when many protesters across the country have been calling to tear down Confederate statues, as well as other monuments honoring the country’s racist past, President Donald Trump insists that what the country needs is even more statues. During a confrontational speech in which he delivered a divisive message warning of the threat of a “new far-left fascism,” Trump announced an executive order to establish a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will include statues of “historically significant” Americans. . “

Trump had previously condemned protesters for demolishing statues and even signed an order in June calling for the prosecution of those who destroy statues or other historical monuments. He returned to that topic on Friday when he spoke in front of Mount Rushmore, claiming that the protesters were “determined to tear down every statue, symbol and memory of our national heritage.” Trump also claimed that calls to remove statues amounted to an effort to “smear our heroes, erase our values ​​and indoctrinate our children.”

The executive order unveiled by the White House on Friday night also sharply criticizes efforts to remove the statues. “Destroying a monument is desecrating our common heritage,” says the order. “These statues are not only ours, to be discarded at will by those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have gone before us and to generations not yet born. “That is why” it is our responsibility as Americans to stand firm against this violence and peacefully transmit our great national history to future generations through newly commissioned monuments to American heroes. “

The order continues to give a new task force 60 days to submit plans for the statue garden that must be “realistic or realistic” and “not abstract or modernist.” The order also specifies that the garden must be “located in a site of natural beauty,” near a city, and must be opened by July 4, 2026. The garden must include “historically significant Americans,” who “contributed positively to America throughout our history. ” The order gives the Founding Fathers, abolitionists, policemen killed in the line of duty, and “opponents of national socialism or international socialism” as just a few examples of people who could be included. “None will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering and studying,” the order reads.

The list lists the historical figures to be included in the National Garden, although it also makes clear that they should not be limited to the people included in the list. The list includes several obvious names like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Luther King Jr .. But also others that are sure to spark more controversy, including Ronald Reagan, Antonin Scalia, and Billy Graham. Although the statues should be of “historically significant Americans,” one can also represent those who “made substantial historical contributions to the discovery, development, or independence of the future United States,” including Christopher Columbus, Junípero Serra, and the Marquis of Lafayette.

These are all the historical figures mentioned in the order:

• John Adams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Clara Barton

• Daniel Boone

• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

• Henry Clay

• Davy Crockett

• Frederick Douglass

• Amelia Earhart

• Benjamin Franklin

• Billy Graham

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Douglas MacArthur

• Dolley Madison

• James Madison

• Christa McAuliffe

• Audie Murphy

• George S. Patton, Jr

. • Ronald Reagan

• Jackie Robinson

• Betsy Ross

• Antonin Scalia

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Booker T. Washington

• George Washington

• Orville and Wilbur Wright