President Donald Trump doubles plans to build images for Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson, who says an audience of the White House on Thursday that the legendary American athletes will forever be commemorated in the National Garden of American Heroes.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create images for the National Garden of American Heroes
Trump announced on Thursday that he signed an executive order to bring back his “National Park of American Heroes” during the National Prayer Breakfast in the US Capitol Building.
“Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali,” Trump said during a meeting that Black History Month celebrated at 1600 Penn. Ave., before he announced that Black Mamba would also be honored.
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“I have signed an executive order to resume the process of creating a new national park full of images of the greatest Americans who have ever lived,” he added.
“We are going to honor our heroes in honor of the greatest people in our country. We are not going to bring down, we are going to build up. “
Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson are among the legendary athletes to get images
Kobe Bryant, the late Los Angeles Lakers-Superster, was an MVP and an 18-time All-Star, five-time NBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medal winner. He was anchored in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bryant died in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles on January 26, 2020, at the age of 41, in addition to his 13 years old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others.
Then Muhammad Ali is perhaps the greatest boxer of all time, who owns a record of 56-5 with 37 knockouts during his professional career of 1960-81. Ali was an Olympic gold medal winner in 1960 and became the first man to win a world heavyweight title three times. He held the WBC, WBA, Nabf and Nysac heavyweight titles. Ali died in 2016 at the age of 74.
Finally, Jackie Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) in modern times. Robinson broke the color barrier when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
During his 10-year MLB career, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an all-star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 to 1954 and became the first black player to win the National League (NL) Most Washingable player Award in 1949. He died in Stamford, Connecticut, at the age of 53 on 24 October 1972.
Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Bille Holiday are to those who will receive images
Prominent figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King and Frederick Douglass will also get images in the future.
According to Fox News, Donald Trump signed an executive order in 2020 to set up the National Garden of American Heroes, but the directive was withdrawn the following year by former President Joe Biden.
The original order was signed in the midst of national protests and riots against systemic racism, which led to democratic voters who break down confederated images and “those associated with violent histories”. That is up to interpretation.
Republicans have argued in the past that it is hypocritical to break down images of American civil war figures, while it establishes a statue of Vladamir Lenin in Seattle and another by George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Another part of the new executive order that Trump signed on Thursday is restoring the 2020 order to protect monuments and federal offices against vandalism, according to Kinsey Crowley of the US today.
The National Garden of American Heroes is dedicated to celebrating heroic figures in American history. The sculpture garden is located on the site of the National Mall in Washington, DC
