…how about some coronavirus tombstones?
Donald Trump’s “Garden of Heroes” history project is supposed to be done by July 4, 2026 (by which point President Biden will have redirected the Department of Interior’s attention to reforming the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other practical projects). On July 28, Minnehaha County Commissioners received an e-mail from Trumpist minion and anti-conservationist Jeff Small of the DOI with an attached letter from Interior Secretary and oily exploiteur David Bernhardt asking that they respond to three questions related to this statuary sally by Friday, July 31:
- Are there locations of natural beauty within your unit of local government that would serve as a reputable location for these monuments, statues, and the National Garden of American Heroes? Please list and describe any such locations consistent with the EO [Executive Order].
- Are there any statues or monuments your locality can donate or loan to this effort that will honor our nation’s heroes? Please list and describe any such statues or monuments consistent with the EO.
- In addition to the 31 individuals listed in the EO, are there any other American heroes who should be recognized in the National Garden of American Heroes? Please list and describe any such individuals consistent with the EO [Jeff Small, Department of Interior, letter to Minnehaha County Board of Commissioners, dated 2020.07.30].
What, Trump is so cheap that he won’t spring for new statues, so he’s looking for Minnehaha County to donate monuments? Leave it to Donald Trump to make a historical site look like a rummage sale.
The GOH EO recommends statues of, among other people, first responders “killed or injured in the line of duty.” How about we expand that criterion—how about 150,000 statues, to the 150,000 Americans killed in just the last five months by Donald Trump’s (and Kristi Noem‘s) blockheaded rejection of science and good sense about the coronavirus pandemic? Minnehaha County Commissioners, you can submit the names of at least 62 people (as reported by the CDC) who gave their lives so we could have John Morrell wieners and watch Kristi ride horsey at the rodeo and shop without masks the way George Washington intended. Tombstones in Trump’s goodbye garden would be a fitting tribute to their patriotic sacrifice.
I suppose Braxton Bragg, Stonewall Jackson and the rest of the traitors will be there along with whomever our little tinker belle governor suggests, maybe Big Nose Kate or Bonnie Parker.
Get the crew that bribed trump to speak for GNOem in Sioux Falls, you know, the ones that stiffed the City of Sioux Falls for the fanfare of lies.
Can we have Dale Lamphere quickly create a statue of John McCain?