Trump Announces Site for DC’s National Garden of American Heroes – Northern Virginia Magazine
The garden will feature hundreds of life-size statues.
By Debbie Williams
President Donald Trump has announced the location for another planned DC attraction. Trump posted Friday on Truth Social that the National Garden of American Heroes will be located at West Potomac Park.
Situated along the Potomac River, West Potomac Park encompasses the area between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. It includes the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorials.
“This magnificent exhibition of statues will be located in West Potomac Park, which we are transforming into one of the World’s most beautiful public spaces,” Trump wrote. “When finished, West Potomac Park will be a World Class Masterpiece with elegant Landscaping, and adorned with Beautiful Statues, and be yet another one of my great projects to make Washington, D.C., the Safest and Most Beautiful Capital in the World.”
Trump issued an executive order in 2021 outlining the plan to create the National Garden of American Heroes. It states that the garden will be composed of hundreds of statues honoring people “for embodying the American spirit of daring and defiance, excellence and adventure, courage and confidence, loyalty and love.”
The names listed include a mix of politicians, artists, authors, inventors, astronauts, athletes, and business and entertainment personalities. They include Samuel Adams, Muhammad Ali, Clara Barton, Christopher Columbus, Theodore Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Babe Ruth, Martin Luther King, Jr., Sally Ride, Alfred Hitchcock, Whitney Houston, and Walt Whitman.
Trump did not indicate when the National Garden of American Heroes would be completed. But he noted that it is “one more project we are undertaking to honor the 250th Birthday of the Greatest Nation on Earth.”
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Northern Virginia Magazine Senior Editor Debbie Williams is a George Mason University graduate and longtime NoVA resident. She has more than 20 years of experience writing and editing for a variety of nonprofit, lifestyle, and government publications, including for AARP.org and USA TODAY magazines.
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