In a Jan. 29 executive order, President Donald Trump revived a plan from his first term to construct a national garden honoring American heroes ahead of the United States' 250th anniversary next year. 

Trump's order created an Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes to plan for the construction of the garden "as expeditiously as possible."

The promise is one of 75 Trump made that PolitiFact will track on the MAGA-Meter. Over the next four years, we will periodically evaluate the new administration's progress on Trump's 2024 campaign promises, just as we did with Barack Obama, Trump during his first term, and Joe Biden.

On his second-to-last day in office in 2021, Trump issued Executive Order 13978, which called for creating a national garden that would "reflect the awesome splendor of our country's timeless exceptionalism." However, Congress did not pass funding for the memorial, and the idea fizzled before a site was chosen. President Joe Biden revoked the order in May 2021.

During Trump's 2024 campaign, he pledged to revive the National Garden of Heroes idea. He first proposed the idea of a national garden honoring American figures during a 2020 Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore. The announcement came amid a wave of Black Lives Matter protests, during which statues of Confederate leaders were taken down or vandalized nationwide. 

According to the 2021 executive order, the National Garden is "America's answer to this reckless attempt to erase our heroes, values, and entire way of life."

Trump formalized the idea of a national garden in a July 2020 executive order aimed at restoring and rebuilding some defaced monuments of controversial historical figures. This order listed 31 as possible honorees for the Trump-appointed national garden task force to consider.

The garden, as designed, would  contain sculptures of 250 Americans; 244 of whom were named in the 2021 executive order. The list includes Presidents George Washington and John F. Kennedy; U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; athletes Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth; activists Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Tubman; scientist Albert Einstein, author Edgar Allen Poe; singer Whitney Houston; and "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek.

In the current list, 78% of the honorees are men. The list does not include Confederate generals; CBS reported that Trump collaborated with local politicians and community leaders to make the list of heroes. 

Since issuing the Jan. 29 order, Trump has organized a task force to oversee the project and formally choose the 250 honorees. The project still needs a site and funding. For now, we're rating this promise as In the Works.