Who would you put in your National Statue Garden?

[Dr. MB]

Trump created an executive order about a National Garden of statues. He's got some interesting choices:

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1279258677610983424?s=20
Trump put in 31 names so choose 31 of your own. Or more or less, your pick.

I think I'd do something like this:

1. Hunter S. Thompson
2. Neil Abercrombie
3. Colleen Hanabusa
4. Malcolm X
5. Frank Church
6. Brigham Young
7. Johnny Rebel
8. Ted Kaczynski
9. Jeffrey Epstein
10. Ghislaine Maxwell
11. King George III
12. Aaron Burr
13. John Gotti
14. Gerard Way
15. Susan Sarandon
16. Bobby Shmurda
17. Spike Lee
18. Jimmy Carter
19. L. Ron Hubbard
20. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
21. John R. Brinkley
22. Dave Chappelle
23. Kathy Griffin
24. Stormy Daniels
25. Katie Hill
26. Benedict Arnold
27. Barbara Lee
28. Avril Lavigne
29. Alan Dershowitz
30. George Jung
31. Rachel Dolezal

[SevenEleven]

MacArthur and Patton but no Sherman, Roosevelt, or Eisenhower is blasphemy.

Billy Graham? 🤦

[scutosaurus]

1. Thomas Paine
2. Gouverneur Morris
3. John R. Brinkley
4. Dilma Rousseff
5. Colleen Hanabusa
6. Dick Cheney
7. Timothy Dexter
8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
9. Joshua Norton
10. Sitting Bull
11. Aleš Hrdlička
12. Oprah Winfrey
13. Squeaky Fromme
14. Ambrose Burnside
15. John Brown
16. Phil Batt
17. William Howard Taft
18. Lead Belly
19. Hedy Lamarr
20. Seth Sothel
21. Hillary Clinton
22. Lewis D. Peeler
23. Michael F. Bennet
24. Raz Simone
25. Zora Neale Hurston
26. Eliot Engel
27. Shirley Chisholm
28. Buddy Holly
29. Dian Fossey
30. Thaddeus Stevens
31. O.J. Simpson

Honorable mention to the Bill Walker statue, which was constructed but promptly dropped out of the garden by falling over and breaking.

[PSOL]

Seriously, my choices would probably be in a good-enough chronological order

1. Thomas Paine
2. Nat Turner
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. David Thoreau
5. Fredrick Douglass
6. Abraham Lincoln
7. Ulysses S. Grant
8. John Brown
9. Harriet Tubman
10. Thaddeus Stevens
11. John Creswell
12. John C. Fremont
13. Jane Addams
14. Eugene Debs
15. Upton Sinclair
16. W.E.B. DuBois
17. George Washington Carver
18. Mark Twain
19. Walt Whitman
20. Henry Haywood
21. Smedley Butler
22. Amelia Earhart
23. Nicola Tesla
24. William Jennings Bryan
25. Maya Angelou
26. Fred Hampton
27. MLK jr.
28. Ernest Hemingway
29. Malcolm X
30. Michael Jackson
31. Tupac Shakur

Obviously I’m missing more very present figures, and I’m either blanking out or having no room for so many other great historical figures, but this is my current list off the top of my head.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

David the Gnome

[Storebought]

George Patton, interesting choice.

Patton was the one who led the cavalry charge against the Bonus Army  in 1932.

[VPH]

I could come up with a lot more, but

MLK Jr.
Amelia Earhart
FDR
Fannie Lou Hamer
Bayard Rustin
Harry Truman
Shirley Chisholm
Cesar Chavez
Walter Reuther
Dwight Eisenhower
George Norris
Bruce Springsteen
Louis Brandeis
John A. Ryan
Johnny Cash
Susanna Salter
Charles Sumner
Frances Perkins
Oscar Underwood
Dorothy Day
Sacagawea
Henry Clay
Chuck Berry
Ben Franklin
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Jennings Bryan
Jackie Robinson
Robert LaFollette
Teddy Roosevelt
RFK
Thaddeus Stevens
Dennis Chávez
Huey Long
John Quincy Adams
Elvis Presley
Katharine Drexel
Fred Rogers
Charles Curtis
Henry Thoreau

[GeneralMacArthur]

Trump's list isn't half-bad (since he obviously didn't write it himself) but it needs a lot more scientists.

[Kingpoleon]

Dolores Huerta, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King Jr., William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Paul Jennings, Susan B. Anthony, Russell Means, W. E. B. DuBois, Alex Odeh, Sigmund Livingston, and Louis Marshall.

Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali, Duke Ellington, Bob Hope, Elton John, Dolly Parton, David Bowie, Woody Guthrie, Clint Eastwood, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Omar Sharif, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Sidney Poitier,  John Wayne*, Michael Jackson*, and Frank Sinatra*.

[HillGoose]

Dick Cheney
Ayn Rand
Paul Singer
Colin Powell
Donald Rumsfeld
Thaddeus Stevens
Jay Z

uhhhh idk who else.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

1. Evo Morales
2. Greta Thunberg
3. Bernie Sanders
4. Henry Wallace
5. Edmund Muskie
6. Frank Church
7. George McGovern
8. MLK
9. William J. Bryan
10. Eugene V. Debs
11. Barack Obama
12. Muhammed Ali
13. Rosa Luxemburg
14. Dwight Eisenhower
15. Theodore Roosevelt
16. Robert M. La Follette
17. José Mujica
18. Jacinda Ardern
19. Harry S Truman
20. Hubert H. Humphrey
21. Nelson Rockefeller
22. Vladimir Lenin or Stanislav Petrov or Mikhail Gorbachev
23. Che Guevara
24. Ronald Reagan
25. FDR
26. JFK
27. Al Gore
28. 2Pac, Eazy A and Biggie together
29. Bob Marley
30. Mahatma Gandhi or Freddy Mercury
31. Hillary Clinton or Taylor Swift
32. Churchill, Adenauer, Brandt, Attlee and De Gaulle together

Assuming it's a public garden.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Seriously, my choices would probably be in a good-enough chronological order

1. Thomas Paine
2. Nat Turner
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. David Thoreau
5. Fredrick Douglass
6. Abraham Lincoln
7. Ulysses S. Grant
8. John Brown
9. Harriet Tubman
10. Thaddeus Stevens
11. John Creswell
12. John C. Fremont
13. Jane Addams
14. Eugene Debs
15. Upton Sinclair
16. W.E.B. DuBois
17. George Washington Carver
18. Mark Twain
19. Walt Whitman
20. Henry Haywood
21. Smedley Butler
22. Amelia Earhart
23. Nicola Tesla
24. William Jennings Bryan
25. Maya Angelou
26. Fred Hampton
27. MLK jr.
28. Ernest Hemingway
29. Malcolm X
30. Michael Jackson
31. Tupac Shakur

Obviously I’m missing more very present figures, and I’m either blanking out or having no room for so many other great historical figures, but this is my current list off the top of my head.

great list, but Michael Jackson really? He was a pedophile.

[7,052,770]

great list, but Michael Jackson really? He was a pedophile.

Possibly, but I'd say he's more like a Tilt Innocent. The number of distinct accusers is pretty disturbing, but none of them have very strong evidence.

[Horus]

great list, but Michael Jackson really? He was a pedophile.

Possibly, but I'd say he's more like a Tilt Innocent. The number of distinct accusers is pretty disturbing, but none of them have very strong evidence.

Agreed. Had his personality and look not been so eccentric, far more would've doubted the obviously dubious accusations.

[West_Midlander]

1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Susan B. Anthony
3. George Washington
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Harry S. Truman
6. Eleanor Roosevelt
7. Theodore Roosevelt
8. Abraham Lincoln
9. George H.W. Bush
10. Ronald Reagan
11. Ulysses S. Grant
12. Clara Barton
13. Frederick Douglass
14. Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. W.E.B. DuBois
16. Pete Segar
17. Harriet Tubman
18. Orville and Wilbur Wright
19. Booker T. Washington
20. Harriet Beecher Stowe
21. Dolley Madison
22. Betty Ford
23. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
24. Jackie Robinson
25. Dwight D. Eisenhower
26. Lyndon B. Johnson
27. Pat Nixon
28. Lady Bird Johnson
29. Condi Rice
30. Ed Brooke
31. Colin Powell

Not a definitive list, of course, but the first names with broad-appeal that came to mind, and ones who I would be comfortable putting in the Garden, and including many from the actual list.

EDIT: Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens would be additions if I had more slots and there are other major figures I am forgetting at this time, too.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

So many great Americans who have done tremendous things. Any list would leave out MILLIONS. But I'll give it a try:

1. Vince Lombardi
2. Joe DiMaggio (and Ted Williams - i.e., the finest hitters and biggest freedom fighters of all-time)
3. Roy Campanella (and Jackie Robinson and Sandy Koufax - just throw in all the peak and off-peak legends of the '55 Dodgers. Greatest ever.)
4. Jim Valvano
5. Rollie Massimino
6. Antonin Scalia
7. Frank Rizzo
8. Joe Paterno
9. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin Crocetti (and Sammy Davis Jr.)
10. Martin Scorcese
11. James Gandolfini and Edie Falco
12. Yogi Berra
13. Mike Francesa
14. Fiorello LaGuardia
15. Mario Cuomo
16. Frank Capra
17. John Gotti
18. Nancy Pelosi
19. Harry "Caray" Carabina
20. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
21. Gay Talese
22. Bruce Springsteen and Steven "Van Zandt" Lento
23. Teresa Giudice
24. William Theodore Walton (made of solar energy) and David Pasch (made of coal)
25. Dave Portnoy
26. Benjamin Franklin
27. Kanye West
28. Thomas Meagher
29. Jerry Seinfeld
30. Guy Picciotto
31. Dr. Anthony Fauci

[dead0man]

Thomas Paine
a generic Minuteman
Frederick Douglass
John Hay
a generic Union Soldier
a Doughboy
a WWII era pilot, seaman and soldier
Norman Borlaug
Carl Sagan

[PSOL]

great list, but Michael Jackson really? He was a pedophile.

Possibly, but I'd say he's more like a Tilt Innocent. The number of distinct accusers is pretty disturbing, but none of them have very strong evidence.

On second thought, just to be safe, I’m switching MJ out for either Susan B. Anthony or Ida B. Wells

[Ferguson97]

In no particular order

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Lyndon B. Johnson
3. Dwight Eisenhower
4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
5. Vince Lombardi
6. Amelia Earhart
7. Susan B. Anthony
8. Martin Luther King, Jr
9. Frederick Douglass
10. Hedy Lamarr
11. Harriet Tubman
12. Muhammed Ali
13. Malcolm X
14. Marilyn Monroe
15. Elvis Presley
16. Sacagawea
17. Thomas Paine
18. Hellen Keller
19. Frank Lloyd Wright
20. Louis Armstrong
21. Jackie Robinson
22. Sojourner Truth
23. Thomas Edison
24. Booker T. Washington
25. Ida B. Wells
26. Orville Wright
27. Wilbur Wright
28. Margaret Sanger
29. Thurgood Marshall
30. Neil Armstrong
31. Rosa Parks

[Ferguson97]

In no particular order

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Lyndon B. Johnson
3. Dwight Eisenhower
4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
5. Vince Lombardi
6. Amelia Earhart
7. Susan B. Anthony
8. Martin Luther King, Jr
9. Frederick Douglass
10. Hedy Lamarr
11. Harriet Tubman
12. Muhammed Ali
13. Malcolm X
14. Marilyn Monroe
15. Elvis Presley
16. Sacagawea
17. Thomas Paine
18. Hellen Keller
19. Frank Lloyd Wright
20. Louis Armstrong
21. Jackie Robinson
22. Sojourner Truth
23. Thomas Edison
24. Booker T. Washington
25. Ida B. Wells
26. Orville Wright
27. Wilbur Wright
28. Margaret Sanger
29. Thurgood Marshall
30. Neil Armstrong
31. Rosa Parks

[Beet]

1. Hillary Clinton
2. Lyndon Johnson
3. Patsy Mink
4. Birch Bayh
5. Martin Luther King, Jr.
6. Earl Warren

7. Jared Diamond
8. James Loewen
9. Dale Carnegie
10. Stephen Covey
11. V.C. Andrews

12. George Lucas
13. John Hughes
14. Stanley Kubrick
15. Kelly Fremon Craig
16. Jessica Sharzer
17. Sam Levinson

18. Sydney Tamiia Poitier
19. Sung Kang
20. Brad Pitt
21. Michael B. Jordan
22. Megan Fox

23. Marilyn Manson
24. Kesha Rose Sebert
25. Whitney Houston
26. Mariah Carey
27. Michael Jackson
28. Tupac Shakur
29. Johnny Cash
30. Alison Krauss

31. Thomas Edison

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Ulysses S. Grant
5. Dwight Eisenhower
6. Patrick Henry
7. Paul Revere
8. Benjamin Franklin
9. John Adams
10. James Madison
11. Harriet Tubman
12. Frederick Douglass
13. Christopher Jones
14. Myles Standish
15. Meriwether Lewis
16. William Clark
17. Sakagawea
18. George Washington Carver
19. William Jennings Bryan
20. John Fremont
21. Henry Clay
22. Booker T. Washington
23. Martin Luther King Jr.
24. Gilbert du Motier
25. Sam Houston
26. Jonas Salk
27. Alexander Graham Bell
28. Orville Wright
29. Wilbur Wright
30. Jesse Owens
31. Harriet Beecher Stowe

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

MLK, but he has a statue already but I would still put him there

[Mr. Reactionary]

Everybody canceled last month.

[sparkey]

Everybody canceled last month.

What pose would you put Stefan Molyneux in?