OAN Commentary by: Theodore R. Malloch
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
When you fly over or drive around our nation’s capital, visitors are often impressed by the layout and design of the classical federal setting. The District of Columbia is a beautiful capital city that was designed by Pierre L’Enfant, in 1791.
Tourists are captivated by the massive domed Capitol itself and the broad boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, leading to the White House. Looking out over the ellipse and the tall Washington Monument, they are taken in by the Smithsonian museums along the Mall, as well as the many presidential monuments to our countries’ most significant and historic leaders.
The Jefferson Memorial, along the tidal basin with its cherry trees, a gift from Japan, bloom every spring. Theodore Roosevelt has his own entire nature island as a lasting monument. Perhaps, the most impressive of all is the imposing structure of President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President, inscribed with “the virtues of tolerance, honesty, and constancy in the human spirit.” Designed by Henry Bacon on a plan similar to that of the Parthenon in Athens, the structure was constructed on reclaimed marshland – drained swampland – along the banks of the Potomac River.
All nations memorialize their greatest heroes, name airports and stadiums after them, and remember the achievements, battles, and laws they enacted. Such behavior from the beginning of time gives evidence of the human spirit and our goals as political communities, and most significantly, as sovereign nations.
Is it too audacious to ask the question now, to at least begin to raise it as we have in the past: how should we actually memorialize the person who birthed the third American revolution and is ushering in a golden age of peace, prosperity, and well-being. That person of course is none other than our 45th and now 47th President, Donald J. Trump.
The National Mall is also America’s most visited national park, where the past, present and future come together. The monuments and memorials in this park honor American forefathers and heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to this country, the people who quite literally — made it great. This swath of land nicknamed “America’s front yard, “is venerated and in ways sacred, as it honors the people who brought forth and down the centuries sustained the American Dream.
A piece of real estate along this gilded path is hard to come by and memorials take years, if not decades to plan, fund, build and execute. So why not start now and commence the process, give credit where credit is due and think out how, just after the 250th anniversary of these United States, we can bestow a proper honor on a unique and great leader who kept it strong and launched it into its new golden age.
America is a lasting and durable place because of the brave and free people who down the ages sacrificed for her. Many have given life and limb for our liberty. Who sacrificed more than President Trump?
They tried to ruin him, impeach him, jail him, slander him, bankrupt him, assassinate him (twice, that we know of) but he still fought back in the great spirit that is America’s essence. He saved America and its union much like Lincoln did in the Civil War.
This third turn in American greatness, after the birthing of the Founders and glory of Washington’s Crossing and the Gettysburg Address is seeing America realize a new renaissance, a period of unprecedented growth, prominence, and health that is unparalleled amongst nations.
For this in gratitude and thanks the nation—”we the people” should give proper due and memorialize the charismatic and dynamic leader who brought it all to fruition—against the odds and opposed by an entrenched deep state. That deserved memorial should take its place among the pantheon of America’s other great leaders and be placed on the Mall in Washington, DC within a decade of the time he leaves office.
The seminal moment of Donald Trump’s providential persistence remains the scene from a small town in Pennsylvania called Butler. His secret service detail crowding around him, his imposing, symbolic raising of the fist – in defiance of his own bodyguards’ orders to deny further shots a path – revealed not only that the assassin’s bullet had failed to extinguish the leader of the MAGA movement – it had indeed reached the man’s right ear.
Cast it in bronze – larger than life, as the moment was – with the inscription: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, a legend worthy of rivaling the Korean War Memorial’s “Freedom is not free” and even the John Paul Jones’ statue “Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!”. Next on the agenda, the Trump Presidential Library in Palm Beach, Florida.
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is the acclaimed author of three books on Trump. Hired: An Insider’s Look at the Trump Victory, with an afterword by Nigel Farage; The Plot to Destroy Trump, with a foreword by Roger Stone; and Trump’s World: Geo Deus, with a foreword by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of Interior, Matteo Salvini.
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