Biden bins Trump’s statue and garden plans

DONALD Trump’s executive order protecting US monuments, memorials and statues has been cancelled by his successor Joe Biden, who also called off the former president’s planned national garden of American heroes.

In his own executive order, President Biden revoked Trump’s decree in June 2020 calling for the federal government to “prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law” acts of vandalism and destruction to statues on federal property.

That order came in response to the defacement of statues – particularly those honouring the Confederacy – during nationwide protests over racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd while in police custody.

President Biden also abolished the Trump-formed task force to create the new garden monument.

Trump wanted to feature sculptures of dozens of American historical figures including Davy Crockett, Billy Graham and Whitney Houston.