President Donald Trump on Jan. 29 signed an executive order laying out his administration’s plan for America’s 250th Independence Day celebration next year.
A White House fact sheet obtained by The Epoch Times states that Trump will sign an order covering the national Independence Day celebrations on July 4, 2026, as well as broader efforts to bolster national pride.
The plan calls for the White House to set up a working group dubbed “Task Force 250” to coordinate the activities of federal agencies.
“Task Force 250 will build upon the success of the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration half a century ago, which emphasized national renewal of our founding ideals after a period of national unrest and division,” the White House fact sheet states.
Trump’s new order will also reinstate orders he issued in the summer of 2020 to protect and repair statues and monuments damaged by vandals during racial and civil unrest throughout the country.
Much of the vandalism in 2020 targeted monuments commemorating leaders of the Confederacy during the Civil War, but vandals also hit monuments dedicated to Christopher Columbus, several of America’s Founding Fathers, leaders on the Union side of the Civil War such as Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, and the National World War II Memorial.
Trump further stated that his administration “will not allow violent mobs incited by a radical fringe to become the arbiters of the aspects of our history that can be celebrated in public spaces.”
The White House said the planned National Garden of American Heroes will include statues of some figures whose monuments were toppled or destroyed and never replaced.
The Epoch Times requested the list of historical figures to be honored by the statuary park project but did not receive a response by publication time.
