President Donald Trump is making plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence and create a new national sculpture garden while reviving efforts to harshly punish those who vandalize or destroy existing statues and monuments.

The order revives Trump's plans to build a "National Garden of American Heroes" with statues memorializing 250 historical figures.

President Donald Trump is resurrecting a plan from his first term to create a statue garden of American heroes as part of a larger celebration of the country’s 250th birthday next year. The monument garden — with statues honoring 250 people — would include the likeness of figures like Frederick Douglass,