Heavy symbolism is described in this ( LoC ) image by Christopher Kimmel – 1861, Buchanan is shown asleep, his secretary of war, Floyd rakes gold into a bag, Davis remonstrates under a snake, Lincoln and Winfield Scott comfort civilians and Lady Liberty wears her cap.
On September 13, 1891 the New Orleans newspapers announced that the following day there was to be a celebration on Canal Street on the anniversary of the White Leagues attempted coup, by then called “The Battle of Liberty Place.” Jim Crow rule was firmly in place, and the White Race had taken sole control of the reins of power in the city and the state. The beginnings of this “Redemption” of Louisiana from multi-racial democracy had begun with the September 14, 1874 street battle led by the White League. In 1891 the city fathers announced that they would use the anniversary to lay the cornerstone to a monument honoring the white men who had fought there. Here is the announcement of the ceremony.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk walk through the Rose Garden on March 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Capturing Beauty
This is a story about Cultural Warfare coming to the White House in the form of a Statuary Garden, that may replace the White House Rosengarten. Consider the story of Rose-white and Rose-red that is sometimes confused with Snow White which is flopping at the box office. She is being titled Rose Woke. This is what you get when you relitigate the Civil War. How can this be good for business?
Two days ago I found a cartoon of Columbia assaulting the defenders of the White Liberty Monument, and wondered if Trump would place it at one end of the Rose Garden. Will it be paved over with stones, on which are carved the names of Confederate Brass that fought for State Rights, and the right to keep slaves. Wouldn’t this make a great foreign flick?
Eight years ago I wrote Trump and offered to be his Art Buddy. The way I feel today, is, do what makes you feel good about your world view. Art is covered by our Freedom of Expression. Why listen to the Democratic Guessing Games? Trump won after spending billion of his own money, and, the money of Musk, who I see as…….Maleficent! Mr. M has helped our President own a great Empty Canvas – from behind the scenes! Now he is visible! What other Monsters does Mr. M. and Mr. Tee have hidden behind the door, the curtain? “Art is the truth!” they say! I see Donald as a hapless Male Goldie Locks, or
Little Mr. Red Riding Hood?
“There’s nothing little about me!”
Take note of the exposed breast of Columbia above. I have discovered the source! Viva La France! I want to send a movie idea to Disney starring the Goddess Columbia.
Take note that the new Snow White is the same pale white color of Musk, which makes me wonder if he is wanting to be a Great Hollywood Influencer – and is buying up all the empty canvases of the world!
Four years from now we see the end of the movie, where the ex-rose garden is planted with Black Tulips that have been genetically AI altered to look like Elon. The last psychologist on earth walks into the garden and heasr a thousand tiny pleas!….
“Help me!”
‘Garden Troll’ will be the movie of the week at the Mach 4 Drive-ins For the Poor SS Suckers..
“Trump initially called for a “National Garden of American Heroes” during his campaign for reelection in 2020, amid nationwide debates over whether to take down statues celebrating confederates who had fought to uphold slavery during the Civil War. Trump signed executive orders in 2020 and 2021 calling for the garden and establishing a national monument task force.”
Conclusion: The Million Dollar Movie
When I was a child, a local television station ran a “Million Dollar Movie” every day. Back around 1963, before the drive for constant variety became so great, I remember the station running the same movie every night of the week, and I remember watching it several times, just to get the flavor of it. I was nine.
In the late 1950’s Los Angeles TV Channel 9 featured the Million Dollar Movie. Whatever the weekly feature was, it was played nine times for that week. If you missed part of it because your Mom said you needed a bath, you could always catch up with the movie the next night, and the next night, etc. The Million Dollar Movie was played Monday through Friday, same time every night, then twice a day on Saturday and Sunday – nine times a week on Channel 9. They played the really rotten movies of the early 50’s and the 1940’s (a lot of WWII movies we watched), as well as our favorite Japanese Monster Movies in which the mouths moving didn’t quite coincide with the dubbed in American words
Maybe hardcore Disney movie fans will find something to like in this live-action remake of Snow White, but I thought it was an absolute mess. As someone who grew up loving the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, I couldn’t help by be curious to see how they’d bring it to life in live-action.
Photo: Walt Disney Studios
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Elon Musk delivers remarks in the Oval Office on Feb. 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo:
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Last month, the New York Times reported that President Trump would like to replace the White House Rose Garden “with a hard surface to resemble a patio like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago.” Now, in a new interview, the President appeared to share his plans for the historic grounds.
“So you’ve been here many times. You see the grass outside,” Trump said, during a conversation at the White House with the Spectator editor Ben Domenech. “So we’re going to make that into a stone surface because you can’t have it. Yesterday we had a lot of press here because for the obvious. [ed note: Here Trump is referencing his first cabinet meeting on February 26. Per a pool report, reporters interviewed cabinet members in the Rose Garden following the meeting.] They can’t stand on it. So we’re doing a beautiful, it’s going to be beautiful. It’s going to look, I think it’s actually going to look better. But some people would like to leave it. But the problem is you can’t. We had the press here yesterday. Do you see the women there? They’re going crazy. The grass was wet. Their heels are going right through the grass, like four inches deep.”
The White House Rose Garden, which more resembles a grass lawn lined with rose bushes and other plants rather than a traditional, sprawling garden, has roots dating back to the early 20th century, but the iconic modern design was established during the Kennedy administration by philanthropist and decorator Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon. For decades it has hosted a variety of events from formal dinners to press briefings and awards presentations.
The Battle of Liberty Place Monument is a stone obelisk on an inscribed plinth, formerly on display in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, commemorating the “Battle of Liberty Place“, an 1874 attempt by Democratic White League paramilitary organizations to take control of the government of Louisiana from its Reconstruction Era Republican leadership after a disputed gubernatorial election.
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Late into Trump’s first term, Melania refreshed the garden, marking the first major changes to the design in 60 years, a renovation which itself was quite controversial. Following the Times‘s story in February, many once again shared their objections to Trump’s reported plans to alter the grounds in an even more significant way. The First Lady has yet to publicly comment.
President Donald Trump is resurrecting a plan from his first term to create a statue garden of American heroes as part of a larger celebration of the country’s 250th birthday next year.
The monument garden — with statues honoring 250 people — would include the likeness of figures like Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and Davy Crockett, according to an executive order Trump signed Wednesday. The order also establishes a task force, chaired by the president, to prepare a “grand celebration worthy of the momentous occasion of the 250th anniversary of American Independence on July 4, 2026.”
Dubbed “Task Force 250,” the group will include Vice President JD Vance, senior members of the president’s cabinet, the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.
Trump initially called for a “National Garden of American Heroes” during his campaign for reelection in 2020, amid nationwide debates over whether to take down statues celebrating confederates who had fought to uphold slavery during the Civil War. Trump signed executive orders in 2020 and 2021 calling for the garden and establishing a national monument task force.
But a site for the garden was never confirmed, and the plan disintegrated. Democrats in Congress had also refused to provide funding.
Trump’s orders from his first term were later canceled by President Joe Biden.
Trump’s executive order Wednesday also resurrects his 2021 order for the Justice Department to prioritize prosecution of vandalism of monuments and public buildings. That order was a response to nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.
The order Wednesday references vandalism during protests over U.S. support for the Israeli siege on Gaza, such as damage last year to the exterior of the Treasury Department and statues in Lafayette Square.
President Trump revives plans for sculpture park dedicated to ‘American heroes’
Statues of George Washington and Frederick Douglass will join those of more contemporary heroes like celebrity chef Julia Child and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek
30 January 2025
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With a new executive order this week titled “Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday”, US president Donald Trump is bringing back his first-term plan to create a “National Garden of American Heroes”.
The garden is to be completed “as expeditiously as possible” for the US’s semiquincentennial in 2026. The order further stipulates that the number of “heroes”—among them politicians, musicians, scientists, inventors, Hollywood actors, athletes and activists—total 250 for the occasion. It remains unclear where such a giant sculpture garden could be located, given that each person would be represented by a statue, nor how their likenesses will be commissioned.
“The National Garden will be built to reflect the awesome splendour of our country’s timeless exceptionalism,” Trump wrote in his originall 2021 executive order, “Building the National Garden of American Heroes”. Signed in the last days of his first term as president, the order identified 244 people to be commemorated.
The list included predictable people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr alongside a scattershot selection of dead celebrities including the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, chef Julia Child, singer Whitney Houston and television host Alex Trebek. The names of politically divisive figures like Christopher Columbus, Andrew Jackson, Antonin Scalia and Barry Goldwater appear alongside those of Hannah Arendt, Woody Guthrie and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The visual artists on the list—Ansel Adams, John James Audubon, Charles Willson Peale, Norman Rockwell, Gilbert Stuart, John Singer Sargent—point to a very specific aesthetic. (One wonders who the final six heroes will be; perhaps Jimmy Carter, Joseph McCarthy and Hugh Hefner will appear among them.)
“In short, each individual has been chosen for embodying the American spirit of daring and defiance, excellence and adventure, courage and confidence, loyalty and love,” reads the 2021 document. “Astounding the world by the sheer power of their example, each one of them has contributed indispensably to America’s noble history, the best chapters of which are still to come.”
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Trump’s new executive order also reinstates one he signed in 2020, “Protecting American Monuments, Memorials and Statues, and Combating Recent Criminal Violence”, in the aftermath of protests over Confederate monuments. The order seeks to prosecute “to the fullest extent permitted under federal law” anyone who “destroys, damages, vandalises, or desecrates a monument, memorial or statue” in the US. This could mean a ten-year prison sentence. (No Confederate generals appear on Trump’s “American heroes” list.)
Trump’s previous executive orders concerning the garden and US monuments were overturned by his successor, Joe Biden, in May 2021. Congress had never set aside funds for the original garden project.
Earlier this week, following another Trump executive order targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art both shut down their diversity offices.
These Are the Statues Trump Wants to Include in the “National Garden of American Heroes”
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At a time when many protesters around the country have been calling to tear down Confederate statues as well as other monuments that honor the country’s racist past, President Donald Trump insists that what the country needs is even more statues. During a confrontational speech in which he delivered a divisive message that warned about the threat of a “new far-left fascism,” Trump announced an executive order to establish a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will include statues of “historically significant Americans.”
Trump had previously condemned protesters for tearing down statues and even signed an order in June to call for the prosecution of those who vandalize statues or other historical monuments. He returned to that theme on Friday when he spoke in front of Mount Rushmore, claiming protesters were “determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage.” Trump also claimed that calls to remove statues amounted to an effort to “defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.”
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The executive order that the White House unveiled Friday evening also harshly criticizes efforts to remove statues. “To destroy a monument is to desecrate our common inheritance,” reads the order. “These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come before us and to generations yet unborn.” That is why “it is our responsibility as Americans to stand strong against this violence, and to peacefully transmit our great national story to future generations through newly commissioned monuments to American heroes.”
The order goes on to give a new task force 60 days to present plans for the garden of statues that must be “lifelike or realistic” and “not abstract or modernist.” The order also specifies that the garden must be “located on a site of natural beauty,” close to a city, and able to be opened by July 4, 2026. The garden should include “historically significant Americans” who “contributed positively to America throughout our history.” The order gives Founding Fathers, abolitionists, police officers killed in the line of duty, and “opponents of national socialism or international socialism” as just a few of the examples of people who could be included. “None will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering, and studying,” reads the order.
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The lists historical figures to be included in the National Garden, although it also makes clear that they should not be limited to those on the list. The list includes several obvious names like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Luther King Jr.. But also others that are bound to raise more controversy, including Ronald Reagan, Antonin Scalia, and Billy Graham. Although the statues should be of “historically significant Americans,” those who “made substantive historical contributions to the discovery, development, or independence of the future United States” can also be depicted, including Christopher Columbus, Junipero Serra, and the Marquis de Lafayette.
These are all the historical figures mentioned in the order:
• John Adams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Clara Barton
• Daniel Boone
• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
• Henry Clay
• Davy Crockett
• Frederick Douglass
• Amelia Earhart
• Benjamin Franklin
• Billy Graham
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Jefferson
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Douglas MacArthur
• Dolley Madison
• James Madison
• Christa McAuliffe
• Audie Murphy
• George S. Patton, Jr
.• Ronald Reagan
• Jackie Robinson
• Betsy Ross
• Antonin Scalia
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Harriet Tubman
• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
Hundreds rally in Eugene to mark International Women’s Day
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Hundreds of protestors gathered at Alton Baker Park in Eugene Saturday for a “Unite and Resist” rally in support of human rights and International Women’s Day.
To support women and gender equality year-round, this year’s International Women’s Day theme, “Accelerate Action,” called for the acknowledgment of strategies, resources and activities that positively impact women’s advancement, and support and elevate their implementation, according to the International Women’s Day website.
Around 400 people registered for the “Unite and Resist” rally on the Women’s March website, which called for people to “show up and fight back” against issues threatening democracy in the U.S.
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