Donald Trump has named several celebrities and historians he hopes to commemorate in the “National Garden of American Heroes”, including black civil rights leaders, an arcade gamer, and the late guest of a Jeopardy TV game show !
In one of his final acts as president, Mr. Trump, who leaves office Wednesday at noon, issued an order of action calling for images of a long and varied list of 244 person, including Abraham Lincoln, Kobe Bryant, Whitney Houston, and Walt Disney.
Jeopardy! George Alexander Trebek, who died in November, was considered one of the strangest choices, especially since he was from Canada – even though he became a natural American citizen.
Some were surprised to see individuals such as Martin Luther King Jnr, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late liberal Supreme Court Judge, who was replaced by Mr. Trump’s more conservative election, and Hannah Arendt, a theorist. German-Jewish politician who wrote about the rise of fascism and totalitarianism.