National Garden of American Heroes

The National Garden of American Heroes is a proposed sculpture garden honoring "great figures of America's history". The concept was first put forward by President Donald Trump in 2020 during an Independence Day event in Keystone, South Dakota. It was included in a series of executive orders issued by Trump in the final months of his first term in office that sought to address conservative cultural grievances. Congress has not appropriated funding for such a garden, nor have steps been taken to construct the site. President Joe Biden revoked the executive orders relating to the garden in May 2021. Upon Trump's return to the presidency, he revoked Biden's executive order.

Trump's vision for the garden includes the creation of 250 statues depicting notable Founding Fathers, activists, political figures, businesspeople, athletes, celebrities, and pop culture icons. The premise of the proposal and the selection of statues to be erected was questioned by historians and scholars, who described it as random and scattershot.

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