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Blue Montana

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Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:33 PM Jul 2020

Trump ridiculed for plan to build a 'National Garden of American Heroes'...

Trump ridiculed for plan to build a ‘National Garden of American Heroes’: ‘Surprised he didn’t include Zorro’ Raw Story
By Matthew Chapman

At Trump’s Independence Day Speech at Mount Rushmore, he pledged to sign an executive order establishing the “National Garden of American Heroes” in reaction to efforts to tear down monuments glorifying racist historical figures. Although many of the people proposed by the administration for the garden, like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., are fairly universally beloved, others, like former President Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and evangelical preacher Billy Graham, are sharply partisan choices.

The president was roundly scorned on social media for his proposal, with many considering the whole idea a stunt, and others criticizing the choices of “heroes” Trump wanted to honor.

(It would appear it is an attempt to create a monument that he can get his face on. More bat shit crazy narcissism.)

Read the responses and the rest of the story here: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-ridiculed-for-plan-to-build-a-national-garden-of-american-heroes-surprised-he-didnt-include-zorro/,

The question is should a monument be erected that holds the potential for a Trump likeness to be added to it? Personally a picture of Satan or Hitler would suffice for a great likeness of Trump.

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Trump ridiculed for plan to build a 'National Garden of American Heroes'... (Original Post) Blue Montana Jul 2020 OP
He's already building some. They're called cemeteries soothsayer Jul 2020 #1
Great response! katmondoo Jul 2020 #2
It sprang from my mouth last night talking to my sister soothsayer Jul 2020 #4
Some ideas matt819 Jul 2020 #3
I can't imagine the beautiful, sacred area he would chose to plop this thing! n/t Peregrine Took Jul 2020 #5
Native American burial grounds... Harker Jul 2020 #7
The only reason he wants to do this is so he can build one to himself. period. 5X Jul 2020 #6
Yes. Harker Jul 2020 #9
He can have his garden at his Presidential Library, with no taxpayer funds. Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #8
I can't think of a better place for Trump's ego-garden than Mar-A-Lago. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jul 2020 #10

matt819

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3. Some ideas
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:48 PM
Jul 2020

We can go with mockery:

The Lone Ranger, but not Tonto

Superman, but not Supergirl (btw, why not superwoman?)

Batman, but not Robin

Sky King, just because of the name

Crockett and Tubbs

Buford Pusser (not the real one but the actor Joe Don Baker)

Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson in Death Wish)

The Six Million Dollar Man

Captain Kirk

Or we can go all-out racist with:

George Wallace (before the wheel chair)

Bull Connor

Edmond Pettus

Nathan Bedford Forrest



10. I can't think of a better place for Trump's ego-garden than Mar-A-Lago.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:58 PM
Jul 2020

According to public records, it's his personal residence, so he can do whatever he wants. In the morning, he can get up early and wander about the statues, tweeting his thoughts on each man's contributions to the Confederate States. He can even build a beautiful wall around the garden to keep "others" out.

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