EXECUTIVE ORDERS/PROTESTS/STATUES: “To destroy a monument is to desecrate our common inheritance. In recent weeks, in the midst of protests across America, many monuments have been vandalized or destroyed…
These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come before us and to generations yet unborn. My Administration will not abide an assault on our collective national memory…
There is hereby established the Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes.”
-Donald Trump, “Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes,” whitehouse.gov, July 3, 2020
[Note: Read the full Executive Order signed by Donald Trump.]