Trump Hides $40 Million for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Deep In House Budget Bill, Includes Oversized Christopher Columbus Statue That May Sit on Sacred Native American Land

In a move akin to building a statue of Vladimir Putin in Kyiv, President Donald Trump, whose dream of a $40 million “garden of heroes” was allocated in the House version of the budget reconciliation bill passed last month, may propose erecting the oversized monuments on sacred Native land minutes from Mount Rushmore.

The creation of the monument — construction was approved in 1927 — to America presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt generated significant opposition from native tribal members. The mountain was known by the Lakota Sioux as “the Six Grandfathers” and, according to National Geographic, was a favored destination for prayer and devotion.

The entire Black Hills area is considered sacred ground for the Lakota and other tribes. They