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-- 2016 --
Undated: "The River of Blood" is a
monument located on a golf course on
Lowes Island, Virginia owned by
US President
Donald
Trump. A plaque signed with Trump's name states that the monument marks the
place of numerous deaths in the
American Civil War, although no
listed battle nor publicly disclosed event with any recorded casualties took
place at the site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_Blood_%28monument%29
-- 2017 --
January 13: Rice University mural, monument
vandalized with pro-Donald Trump graffiti
Rice University's police department is investigating two cases of vandalism that
were discovered Friday at the campus.
"#DeportSpanos" and "TRUMP BABY!," among other words, were spray-painted on a
mural that is fastened to the side of the Moody Center shipping containers. By
Friday afternoon, the vandalized art piece was being removed.
https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Rice-University-mural-monument-vandalized-with-10855941.php
April 7: A Monument to Trump Hatred
... Massive Eisenhower Memorial Could Break Ground as Early as
September.” This alarming headline appeared the other day in the Capitol Hill
newspaper Roll Call. The news is alarming because after years, and many,
many millions of dollars, spent tinkering with "starchitect" Frank Gehry's
ludicrous plans for an Ike monument on the National Mall, the design remains
what The Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson has called it: "a deconstructionist
fantasy," a "sly insult to Dwight Eisenhower," and "a pitiless joke."
It seems all that's needed now is for Congress to come up with something north
of $80 million ... and President Trump will have to sign off on the expenditure.
Eisenhower Commission spokeswoman Chris Cimko declared the group "confident"
that Donald Trump would be eager to back their plans. "President Trump is a
builder, and he is a Republican," Cimko told Roll Call. "I can't imagine
that he doesn't revere Ike."
Back in 2010, the Donald had bragging rights that his Trump
World Tower was the Big Apple's tallest residential building. That was until
Gehry built an undulating 76-story steel shaft of a skyscraper on Spruce Street.
Peeved, Trump wondered publicly if the building would be a financial success;
Gehry responded, "I don't like his hairdo."
https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-scrapbook/a-monument-to-trump-hatred
April 24: Bill to protect Confederate
memorials could be helped by New Orleans removal of monuments
http://www.wbrc.com/story/35232315/bill-to-protect-confederate-memorials-could-be-helped-by-new-orleans-removal-of-monuments/
April 25: Trump aims attack at national
monuments: 27 at risk
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/trump-aims-attack-national-monuments-27-risk
April 26: 24 national monuments threatened
by Trump's executive order
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/26/24-national-monuments-threatened-trumps-executive-order/100925418/
April 26: What You
Need to Know About Trump’s National Monument Rethink
Trump questions presidential authority to “lock up land”—but can he
really rescind federal monuments?
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/trump-review-national-monuments-bears-ears-utah/
April 26: President Trump is expected to sign an executive order
Wednesday that could end up shrinking — or even nullifying — some large federal
national monuments on protected public lands, as established since the Clinton
administration. ...
Under the [1906 Antiquities] Act, only Congress, not the president, has the
clear authority to reduce or nullify a monument designation. If the Trump
Administration presses forward on its own, it's widely thought the matter will
swiftly land in court. ... new development is largely restricted [on such
lands], which is the source of heated controversy in rural towns surrounded by
federal land where many residents make their living from natural resources.
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525639393/trump-to-sign-executive-order-taking-aim-at-national-monuments
June 8: Attorney General Becerra to Trump
Administration: Protect California’s National Monuments
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-trump-administration-protect-california%E2%80%99s-national
June 29: America’s largest national monument
is under threat
At a time when the United States should be celebrating the 11th anniversary of
one of the best presidential decisions ever made to protect the ocean — the
establishment of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument — American
citizens are instead being asked their opinion on whether or not it should exist
at all.
https://blog.conservation.org/2017/06/americas-largest-national-monument-is-under-threat/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI75mSydui3wIVCglpCh0-kARyEAAYBCAAEgI4hfD_BwE
August 7: Baltimore's Confederate statues
under tarps as Trump, Stonewall Jackson descendants weigh in
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-monuments-found-20170817-story.html
August 16: The Interior Department won’t be
removing monuments to Confederate soldiers at national battlefields that are “an
important part of our country’s history,” according to a spokesman.
“The National Park Service is committed to safeguarding these memorials while
simultaneously educating visitors holistically and objectively about the
actions, motivations and causes of the soldiers and states they commemorate,”
spokesman Jeremy Barnum
told
E&E News.
National Park statements come after a woman was killed counter-protesting a
white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. The city voted to remove a
statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/trumps-interior-department-wont-be-removing-confederate-monuments-from-civil-war-battlefields/
August 16: At monuments to Jefferson and
Washington, Texans question Trump’s comparison to Confederate heroes
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/08/16/texans-national-monuments-respond-trump-statements-removing-washington-jefferson-tributes
August 17: Trump laments removal of
'beautiful' Confederate monuments, 'sad' to see U.S. culture 'ripped apart'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/17/donald-trump-removal-confederate-monuments-whos-ne/
August 17: How Germany handles monuments
from Nazi and communist eras
The German case is exemplary not because Germans attained closure, but because
they came to recognize that closure was neither tenable nor desirable. Instead,
the processing of history is like an open wound that slowly heals only with
careful debate about the often-explosive issues at stake. The United States can
avoid making irreparable mistakes by learning from Germany's blunders and
subsequent course corrections.
Over time, Germans have moved through three distinct phases to tackle the
country's fascist legacy: erasing it, ignoring it, and consigning it to the
Vergangenheitsbewältigung — German for "the enduring confrontation with the
past." The experience offers seven lessons for the fight over America's
Confederate past.
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/charlottesville-nazis-germany-communists-monuments-trump-20170817.html
August 21: Donald Trump is a monument to our
past defending monuments to our past
The aftermath of Charlottesville shows it’s not 1950 anymore.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/21/16175906/donald-trump-charlottesville-confederate-monuments
August 28: Confederate Monuments Are Coming
Down Across the United States. Here’s a List.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html
August 28:
The tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have re-ignited debate about the
place of Confederate monuments in public spaces, as well as related
conversations about the role of Confederate, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist
imagery in American political culture. Historians have been a vocal presence in
these discussions, and the American Historical Association is compiling an
ongoing
bibliography of the diverse perspectives of AHA members.
https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/statements-and-resolutions-of-support-and-protest/aha-statement-on-confederate-monuments
September 11: Trump marks 9/11 anniversary
at Pennsylvania memorial
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have visited a memorial
in Pennsylvania to mark the 9/11 attacks 17 years ago.
Mr Trump delivered a speech commemorating the airplane passengers who are
thought to have charged the cockpit to stop the attackers.
Ceremonies are also being held at New York City's 9/11 Memorial plaza on the
World Trade Center site.
It was deadliest foreign attack ever on US soil, killing 2,996 people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45487709
September 11: Fox host compares 9/11
memorial to Confederate monuments
https://fox2now.com/2017/09/11/fox-host-compares-911-memorial-to-confederate-monuments/
September 21: 'Trump rules, antifa sucks':
Graffiti, swastikas scrubbed from monument near historic Madison synagogue
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime/trump-rules-antifa-sucks-graffiti-swastikas-scrubbed-from-monument-near/article_35101556-e85a-5a1c-b38a-fe1ddb90c28f.html
September 25: State Rep. Bud Williams blames
'Trump effect' after Mason Square veterans memorial smeared with crab apples
https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/09/veterans_memorial_at_springfie.html
October 27: Trump to shrink Utah national
monuments in bid to boost drilling, mining
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-monument/trump-to-shrink-utah-national-monuments-in-bid-to-boost-drilling-mining-idUSKBN1CW2PY
October 28: Trump agrees to shrink national
monuments, yet steadfastly supports Confederate memorials
Utah congressional delegation seeks to open areas to energy and mining
companies.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-plans-monument-rollback-4afdba53f636/
November 11: Trump's rain check on honoring
Americans killed in WWI prompts backlash
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-rain-check-honoring-americans-killed-wwi-prompts/story?id=59119504
December 4: Trump Orders Largest National
Monument Reduction In U.S. History
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/04/567803476/trump-dramatically-shrinks-2-utah-national-monuments
December 4: Trump takes rare step to reduce
2 national monuments in Utah
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/04/npr-trump-take-aim-utah-national-monuments?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI76TZqtei3wIVDi9pCh1iBQJkEAAYASAAEgID3_D_BwE
December 4: Five things to know about
Trump's national monuments order
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/363180-five-things-to-know-about-trumps-national-monuments-order
December 6: Trump to Appoint Bob Wefald to
American Battle Monuments Commission
https://cramer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/cramer-trump-to-appoint-bob-wefald-to-american-battle-monuments
December 6: Trump cutting Bears Ears and
other national monuments sets up environmental showdown
In reducing two national monuments by a total of two million acres this week,
President Donald Trump pleased small government and business proponents in Utah
-- but touched off what promises to be a furious court fight over whether he
overstepped his presidential authority.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-cutting-bears-ears-other-national-monuments-sets-environmental-showdown-n826841
December 8: 7 Facts About the Trump
Administration’s Illegal Attack on National Monuments
https://www.npca.org/articles/1695-7-facts-about-the-trump-administration-s-illegal-attack-on-national?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI75mSydui3wIVCglpCh0-kARyEAAYASAAEgKT-fD_BwE
December 20: Someday, Trump will have a
presidential library. Here’s what it might look like.
Matt Worthington, owner of Worthington Monuments based in Fort Worth, Texas, and
the vice president of Marketing for the
Monument Builders of North America
association, says when it comes to building statues and memorials for
individuals, “There’s a lot that goes into it.”
“We look into the person,” Worthington continues, “their accomplishments, their
ideas, their family, their history, and what’s fitting for the area where the
monument will be placed, too.”
https://qz.com/1162244/donald-j-trump-presidential-library-and-museum-what-will-it-look-like/
December 21: 'Trump, Jerusalem Is Ours':
Israeli Military Monument Defaced With Arabic Graffiti
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jerusalem-ours-israeli-military-monument-defaced-arabic-graffiti-755045
-- 2018 --
January 19: Trump’s Decision To Keep Parks
Open During Shutdown Puts Politics Before Safety
Former Interior Department officials warn the move endangers both visitors and
America’s priceless resources.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-parks-trump-government-shutdown_us_5a61ea28e4b0125fd635df5a
February 2:
What Trump’s Shrinking of National
Monuments Actually Means
The president announced reductions to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante,
but the actual picture on the ground remains highly uncertain.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/trump-shrinks-bears-ears-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments/
April 17: 'Father Of Gynecology,' Who
Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/17/603163394/-father-of-gynecology-who-experimented-on-slaves-no-longer-on-pedestal-in-nyc
July 3: Map of New Mining Claims in Grand
Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears February 2018
Bears Ears,
National monuments,
Public lands,
Uranium,
Maps
https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/map-new-mining-claims-grand-staircase-escalante-and-bears-ears-national-monuments-february-2018?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI75mSydui3wIVCglpCh0-kARyEAAYAiAAEgJpTfD_BwE
July 23: Trump administration officials
dismissed benefits of national monuments
In a quest to shrink national monuments last year, senior Interior Department
officials dismissed evidence that these public sites boosted tourism and spurred
archaeological discoveries, according to documents the department released this
month and retracted a day later.
The thousands of pages of email correspondence chart how Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke and his aides instead tailored their
survey of protected sites to emphasize the value of logging, ranching and
energy development that would be unlocked if they were not designated national
monuments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-officials-dismissed-benefits-of-national-monuments/2018/07/23/5b8b1666-8b9a-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html?utm_term=.d10ae2e15498
October 1: Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah
Are Battling President Trump
The owners of an improbably successful restaurant at the gate of a vast
wilderness are fighting to keep it unspoiled.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/why-two-chefs-in-small-town-utah-decided-to-sue-president-trump
October 15: Feds spending millions to beef
up security at Confederate monuments, cemeteries
The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent nearly $3 million on Confederate
cemetery security since August 2017, records obtained by the AP show.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-spending-millions-beef-security-confederate-monuments-cemeteries-n920316
October 27: Trump declares his first
national monument, honoring African-American troops
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-declares-his-first-national-monument-honoring-african-american-troops-1.553964
Undated: Located in West Potomac Park, MLK’s National
Memorial was unveiled in 2011. Dr. King is the first African American to be
honored with a memorial along the National
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2018/mlk-memorials-fd.html#quest1
November 10: Merkel, Macron Unveil Memorial
Amid World War I Centenary Celebrations
https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-macron-hold-talks-on-european-defense-amid-wwi-commemorations/29593303.html
-- 2019 --
-- 2020 --
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