Posted on 04/30/2025 9:44:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
One of President Trump's most volatile characteristics can also be one of his most endearing. While I'm reluctant to speak with certainty about eras before my lived experience, I can say that in my lifetime there has never been a political enigma like The Donald.
Politicians don't talk like he talks. They don't attack their enemies like he attacks his enemies. They don't pressure the status quo like he pressures the status quo. And not since at least Franklin Roosevelt has a president been so comfortable governing by spitball - that is, throwing some idea or policy against the wall hoping it will stick, and if it doesn't, just regroup and try something else.
On one hand, you have ideas like President Trump's long-held belief that taxes on incoming, foreign goods (tariffs) will have a positive impact on our nation's economy. I've always thought it was a bad idea and it seems to be having (predictably) bad consequences. I expect he will soon have to abandon it.
But on the other hand, sometimes he has ideas that are spectacular. And this is one of them:
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The Trump administration announced this week an opportunity for American artists to create sculptures of historical figures like George Washington, Patrick Henry, Davy Crockett, and other American heroes in celebration of the nation's 250th birthday.
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced on Thursday that it would be handing out grants for artists to sculpt one of the 250 American historical figures identified by the Trump administration for placement in a new National Garden of American Heroes.
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When it comes to the abuse of tax dollars, the National Endowment for the Humanities has had few equals in recent decades. This is the entity that spent millions in recent years to, "explore the fascinating, often-contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, advice books, songs and Internet fan fiction." What in the world?
To use that very agency to begin undermining and undoing so much of the destructive, anti-American societal influences of the last several years is a master stroke. DOGE has cancelled many of the humanities grants that this organization was spending frivolously, and now some of that savings will be spent to promote the spirit of Americanism.
Call that gamesmanship. Say it's Trump sticking a finger in the eye of Black Lives Matter cultural revolutionaries. Whatever his motivation, a National Garden of American Heroes is such a worthy effort, provided it can remain nonpolitical and true to history.
So far, names like George Washington, Davy Crockett, Neil Armstrong, Clara Barton, Frederick Douglass, Sacagawea, and Alvin York have all been promoted as leading candidates for inclusion. All of them are people who embody the spirit of Americanism - the very spirit that has been slandered by race-baiters and gender radicals for the better part of two decades.
As a high school history teacher, I've found myself often reflecting on the words of one of my predecessors who wrote in 1938:
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The greatest need of America, on the threshold of the greatest epoch of its history, is citizens who understand the past out of which the nation has grown. … Let us look into the souls of the leaders and the common people who have made America great.
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This Trump idea allows us to do just that.
While there's some matter of debate about whether this Garden of National Heroes should be focused solely on celebrities and icons rather than "common people," I'd simply point out that truthfully, the real history of America is a nation of common people who become icons by doing courageous, monumental things.
That's a story worth celebrating, and Trump deserves immense credit for championing it.
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If it takes 1900 words to explain the great idea, is it one?
Save the money for another time. Now everything is about sex and race.
I am watching the Cabinet Meeting today at the WH, and it occurred to me that the reason Trump sounds and talks like he does is that it sounds exactly like every CEO of the larger Company Board of Directors Meetings that I have attended through the years. He sounds exactly like a CEO selling his Company stock!
The “National Garden of American Heroes” is a fantastic idea, but how will it be guarded?
We will need a Marine Corps rifle platoon (commanded by a 2nd or 1st lieutenant, consisting of three rifle squads, and a headquarters element made up the platoon commander, a platoon sergeant, a platoon guide, and a messenger) on duty 24x7 to keep the insane leftists from destroying the garden.
Easy... just put a large bronze statue of a penis across the road behind some bushes and all the leftwing nuts will be distracted to go worship that.
I believe he first floated this idea during his first term, but nothing came of it then.
Or a few RING Cameras.
Better make it a strap-on or the sisters of Lesbos will not be interested.
Historical Americans BUMP!
“President Trump’s most volatile characteristics”
“...Trump sounds and talks like he does is that it sounds exactly like every CEO of the larger Company Board of Directors Meetings that I have attended...”
BINGO!!! I was thinking the exact thing. I was a VP of a company division for a few years and went to the board meetings. If they think Trump is “volatile” these wimps need to toughen up. When I saw the melt down of the do nothing bureaucrat losers being expected to report 5 things, JUST FIVE THINGS, they did the week prior I was so glad to see them get fired and post their tearful melt downs for us to point and laugh at. I was responsible for an entire assembly line and if I only reported 5 things I did the week prior I would have been bounced out the door in a heart beat. There were hundreds of things I had to do and was responsible for ensuring got finished. Even the entry level janitor had to prove what he accomplished every work.
Some homo degenerate perverts ‘erected’ a massive butt plug “sculpture” in old town Prague near the St. Charles bridge. The locals were horrified but the homo degenerate tourists and imported activists loved it and protected it from the locals who wanted to destroy it.
Do they get paid by the word?
The Ring cameras would be blocked with black spray paint the day they were installed. Nobody stopped all the leftists in 2020 from tearing down our historic statues, spray painting many with red paint, putting graffiti on statues. Mere cameras won’t stop them.
They will be absolutely livid with rage and want to tear down the garden. The only thing that will stop them is armed guards with shoot-to-kill orders. (well, maybe hickory shampoos applied before shooting them would do).
America is a nation of common people who become icons by doing courageous, monumental things.
Hope JD Vance learns well from a great teacher Trump he needs to be the next president to keep liberty alive and well.
If a democrat gets back in the oval office it’s going to be hell.
Yup—we need some very clever high tech solutions to keep lefty vandals and defacers at bay.
Sonic weapons might be one approach to maintain a decent perimeter.
Good old fashioned moats might work as well.
Lol.
Yes. I was always inspired when we walked out the door, and felt like I wanted to go out and buy Company stock. So, President Trump is selling stock in the USA.
If I were younger & had arms trainining, I’d like to be part of the guard for that. Has Schumer bad-mouthed the project yet? If not, I’m surprised. He is certainly well known to be against anything that makes any sense.
Good idea. But make sure every monument base is wired for 220, and hits any protester like a bug zapper.
“Has Schumer bad-mouthed the project yet?”
I can’t wait for that whole chorus of insane lunatic Dems to bad-mouth it! That could be worth some seat pick-ups in both the House and Senate..
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