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applegrove

(132,874 posts)
Sat May 2, 2026, 04:11 PM Saturday

Trump's Vision for 'Garden of Heroes' Keeps Getting Bigger

Trump’s Vision for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Keeps Getting Bigger

May 2, 2026 at 5:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/05/02/trumps-vision-for-garden-of-heroes-keeps-getting-bigger/


“President Trump’s vision for his National Garden of American Heroes is growing larger and most likely more expensive than his initial estimates, with the latest plans calling for reflecting pools, dining facilities and an amphitheater alongside 250 life-size statues of notable Americans,” the New York Times reports.

“The plans have expanded to the point that they could require significant redevelopment of West Potomac Park, an area of mostly sports fields near the National Mall.”
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wcmagumba

(6,548 posts)
1. Good Gawd...please 86 t-rump's so called "Garden of Heros"...
Sat May 2, 2026, 04:15 PM
Saturday

Another bad idea from t-rump's vasty nether regions...expensive, ugly and pretentious. T-rump has absolutely nothing heroic about himself or his actions in life...between his supposed "bone spur" exemptions from the draft to his meritless attacks on others who did serve in the military t-rump is one pathetic dude...

Permanut

(8,524 posts)
5. I'm thinking that all of the statues should be arranged in a circle..
Sat May 2, 2026, 04:41 PM
Saturday

With one larger than life statue, say 100 feet tall, in the middle.

pat_k

(13,773 posts)
6. Who we can guarantee won't be there: Mary Katherine Goddard, Victoria Woodhull, Eliza Lyda Conley, Mary Burnett Talbert,
Sat May 2, 2026, 04:43 PM
Saturday

...Susan B. Anthony, Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, A. Philip Randolph, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Thurgood Marshall, MLK, Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Fred Gray, Ella Baker, John Lewis, Rachel Carson, Katherine Johnson, Grace Hopper, Barbara McLintock...

I'd go on, but pretty much anyone associated with working for women's suffrage, civil rights, women in science, women's rights, Native Americans (whatever their accomplishments)... I'm sure there are more categories to add to the list but the people this corrupt regime would happily erase from our history is just so extensive it exhausts me.

hedda_foil

(17,001 posts)
7. Will the statues be painted to look more "lifelike"? How about animatronics?
Sat May 2, 2026, 06:07 PM
Saturday

I can see it all now ... TRUMPYLAND!

struggle4progress

(126,590 posts)
8. "We decided it would be necessary to tear down the West Wing to install our Epstein Pavilion
Sat May 2, 2026, 06:36 PM
Saturday

with its 50000 capacity Love Sausage amphitheater"

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