President Donald Trump honored Black History Month by promoting African American icons to be included in the National Garden of American Heroes.
During a Thursday press conference at the White House, Trump stepped to the podium with golf legend Tiger Woods.
The president, who at the end of his first term signed an executive order to establish the National Garden, said statues will honor Black icons including sports figures Kobe Bryant, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali.
Other Black honorees will include Civil War hero Prince Estabrook, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, activist Rosa Parks, singer Billie Holiday, singer Aretha Franklin, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, educator Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.
"We've made tribute to these heroes and so many others, but not simply because they're Black heroes, but also because they are truly American heroes who inspire all of us very much," Trump said during the press conference.
"The last administration tried to reduce all of American history to a single year, 1619, but under our administration, we honor the indispensable role Black Americans have always played in the immortal cause of another date: 1776."
After mentioning all those being honored with statues had died, Trump drew laughter when he mentioned Woods.
"I was going to put Tiger in the garden but maybe you don't want to be there," he said while turning toward Woods. "I maybe should wait a little bit. I think I'm gonna wait about 50 years."
Trump's order said the National Garden will honor Americans of all races who were "chosen for embodying the American spirit of daring and defiance, excellence and adventure, courage and confidence, loyalty and love."