President Donald Trump released the text of an executive order on Monday providing additional details for his administration’s planned statuary park—named the “National Garden of American Heroes”—including an exhaustive list of American icons, one of whom famously wrote a song saying that Fred Trump stirred up racial hate. “The chronicles of our history show that America is a land of heroes,” the executive order stated. “As I announced during my address at Mount Rushmore, the gates of a beautiful new garden will soon open to the public where the legends of America’s past will be remembered.” Among the people Trump chose for the garden are former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia , singer Elvis Presley , recently deceased Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek , controversial political theorist Hannah Arendt , and folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie . The inclusion of Guthrie is particularly eyebrow-raising, as Guthrie in 1954 penned a song titled lambasting his then-landlord at the Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn for stirring up racial hate. His landlord was none other than Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, and the song was literally titled “Old Man Trump .” The lyrics to the song are particularly brutal. I suppose Old Man Trump knows Just how much Racial Hate He stirred up In the bloodpot of human hearts When he drawed That color line Here at his Beach Haven family project Trump also used Monday’s announcement to reiterate his disdain for the removal or defacing of various statues, appearing to refer to a movement primarily aimed at tearing down monuments dedicated to Confederate figures and slaveowners as “dangerous anti-American extremism.” “Across this Nation, belief in the greatness and goodness of America has come under attack in recent months and years by a dangerous anti-American extremism that seeks to dismantle our country’s history, institutions, and very identity. The heroes of 1776 have been desecrated, with statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin vandalized and toppled,” said the order. “The dead who gave their lives to end slavery and save the Union during the Civil War have been dishonored, with monuments to Abraham Lincoln, Hans Christian Heg , and the courageous 54th Regiment left damaged and disfigured. The brave warriors who saved freedom from Nazi fascism have been disgraced with a memorial to World War II veterans defaced with the hammer and sickle of Soviet communism.” When he first announced the garden in July, Trump said that protesters who unlawfully tore down statues were waging a “merciless campaign” to erase U.S. history and the “memory of our national heritage.” Days after signing a June executive order that called for prosecutions “to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law” for anyone caught vandalizing a government monument, Trump demanded that two people suspected of defacing a statue of George Washington with paint balloons to face up to 10 years in prison. [image via Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images] The post Trump Signs Executive Order Honoring ‘American Hero’ Who Called Fred Trump a Racial Hatemonger first appeared on Law & Crime .
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