2026 American Sculpture Garden - - UPDATE : CNN reporting - - no announcement about completion by 250th anniversary upcoming July 2-3-4

NATIONAL "heroes" Statue

Garden -- 250 in original announce-

ment 2020 that was cancelled Jan. 2021

{? ?  National Endowment Arts 

and/or National Endowment Humanities }

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WASHINGTONPOST dot-com

has the "scoop" of the Columbus

Statue being out in place at

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C.

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earlier this year Jan. 13, 2026

TRUMP has SCULPTURE GARDEN
PLANS to "rewrite" who he admired

and intends to put up Statues (rules

or no rules to abide by) 

just like he wants his name / surname

on the former Peace Institute and

Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

both in D.C. 
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Non-American celebrities

that Trump muses about honoring

and including in "his" Statue

Garden of _AMERICAN_ Heroes:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Ingrid Bergman

Christopher Columbus

Alfred Hitchcock

his images are under strict licensing -- LLC -- 

see alfredhitchcock.com/licensing

Nikola Tesla

Alex Trebek (Ontario, Canada)

Hannah Arendt (France)

Albert Einstein (Germany)

Junipero Serra

Marquis de LaFayette

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UPDATE: July 9, 2025 Washington

POST online article:

likely not ready / open until

2029 -- Trump-Vance Omnibus

Bill pushed forward $40 million

funding after Biden-era Nat.

Endowment for Humanities grants

were essentially zeroed by POTUS

Trump 2.0

newsweek.com/donald-trump-national-garden-american-heroes-

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