# National Garden of American Heroes The **National Garden of American Heroes** is [[Donald Trump]]'s planned statue garden of **250 life-size figures** — a roster running from George Washington to Elvis Presley and Kobe Bryant — plus an amphitheater, gardens, reflecting pools, and cafés. Congress approved initial funding of about **$40M** in 2025; NYT reporting (May 2026) found the likely cost continuing to grow. Revived from a first-term executive order, the garden doubles as a culture-war canon-setting exercise (who counts as an American hero) and a line item in the [[America 250]] vanity-project cluster — see [[National Park Service Funds Diversion]]. > Status: stub — expand with the statue roster fights, cost trajectory, and site selection.