EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump will signal an govt order Wednesday establishing a White Home activity power targeted on coordinating the plans and actions surrounding the celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Fox Information Digital has realized.Â
The president’s order will manage a “grand celebration of the semiquincentennial of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence.”
The 250th anniversary of America’s founding is July 4, 2026.
Donald Trump is sworn in because the forty seventh president of the US by Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible on Jan. 20, 2025. (Morry Gash/AP Picture/Pool)
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The duty power, which shall be named “Activity Drive 250,” will “coordinate the plans and actions of federal companies for a unprecedented celebration of the 250thh Anniversary of American Independence.”Â
Activity Drive 250 will construct upon the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration half a century in the past. The White Home informed Fox Information Digital that the celebration “emphasised nationwide renewal of our founding beliefs after a interval of nationwide unrest and division.”Â
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The order, which Trump is ready to signal Wednesday, may also reinstate govt orders from his first administration that may set up the Nationwide Backyard of American Heroes, a statuary park memorializing 250 traditionally vital People, and fee artists for the primary 100 statues.Â
President Donald Trump and first woman Melania Trump are proven throughout a Salute to America occasion on the South Garden of the White Home on July 4, 2020. (AP Picture/Patrick Semansky)
Fox Information Digital has realized that the Nationwide Backyard of American Heroes will honor “American heroism” after dozens of monuments to People, together with presidents and founding fathers, have been toppled or destroyed and by no means restored.
The order additionally reinstates an order to guard American monuments, memorials and statues from destruction or vandalism.
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The White Home stated America’s 250th anniversary will “afford a possibility to unite the American folks round their shared historical past and customary future as a nation.”
President-elect Donald Trump, Melania Trump and household watch fireworks at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership, Washington D.C., on Jan. 18, 2025, in Sterling, Va. (Alex Brandon/Pool through REUTERS)
The order, based on White Home officers, additionally continues Trump’s “longstanding dedication to honor America’s 250th anniversary and have fun American historical past.”Â
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Throughout Trump’s first handle to a joint session of Congress in February 2017, he cited the upcoming semiquincentennial and famous that “in 9 years the US will have fun the 250th anniversary of our founding, 250 years because the day we declared our Independence.”
The chief orders that Wednesday’s order reinstates have been signed in 2020 and 2021 and have been created to guard American monuments throughout unrest and violence in cities throughout protests and the COVID-19 pandemic.
