President Donald Trump hailed the revival of faith and American "heritage" that he said Thursday had been damaged and unwound by the Biden administration.
"The stories of legends like Washington, Winthrop, and Williams remind us that without faith in God, there would be no American story," Trump told the first of two addresses to national prayer breakfasts in Washington, D.C. "Every citizen should be proud of this exceptional heritage."
"That's why I have signed an executive order to resume the process of creating a new national park full of statues of the greatest Americans who ever lived."
Trump first signed his plan for the "National Garden of American Heroes" on Jan. 18, 2021 — just days before he left the White House to give the keys to former President Joe Biden, who spiked the plan.
Soon after his triumphant return to the White House this year, Trump restored the plan to build the park with the 250th United States birthday celebration executive order he signed last week.
Trump spoke for nearly 24 minutes at the Capitol Hill prayer breakfast for a bipartisan group of lawmakers and around 30 minutes again at the Washington Hilton for a private prayer breakfast, trolling Biden for not showing up for those events and being able to speak at length off script like he did Thursday.
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