Trump declared he will use his authority of a new monument to the “giants of our past” through an executive order to establish The National Garden of American Heroes, “a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to have ever lived.”
Trump did not specify where the garden will be located or how it would be paid for, but he did note many people he would consider for inclusion:
Andrew Jackson; Ulysses (“Ul-liss-ee-eess”) S. Grant; Frederick Douglass (whom Trump is hearing great things about); “Wild Bill” Hickok; “Buffalo Bill” Cody; the Wright Brothers; Tuskegee Airmen; Harriet Tubman; Clara Barton; Jesse Owens; George Patton; Louie Armstrong; Alan Shepherd; Elvis Pressley; Muhammad Ali; Walt Whitman; Mark Twain; Irving Berlin; Ella Fitzgerald; Frank Sinatra; and Bob Hope.
With the exception of the nameless Tuskegee airmen and Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman, all the people of color Trump mentioned were athletes or musicians.
It should be noted that the Trump Administration cancelled plans to replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, a plan that was launched in 2016 but killed by Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in 2019.
Trump also lauded the Saturn V rocket, F-150 and the awesome might of the American aircraft carriers, but he did not specify if they would be included in the garden, which would be difficult given that they are not actual people.