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Trump s unhinged, tone-deaf list of American heroes is a fitting emblem of his presidency

Trump s unhinged, tone-deaf list of American heroes is a fitting emblem of his presidency Salon 1/19/2021 © Provided by Salon Donald Trump US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images On Monday afternoon the White House released an executive order detailing the figures that Trump wants represented in his National Garden of American Heroes. Trump originally pitched the idea during a July 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore, amid nationwide protests that again brought questions of who should be memorialized through monuments into focus; across the country, statues of slave owners and Confederate officers were vandalized and removed. 

Daily Kickoff: Questions for Tony Blinken today + The spies who prevented the Nazis from reaching Palestine

Good Tuesday morning! A number of Senate committees will hold confirmation hearings today for several of President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet picks. Janet Yellen, Avril Haines and Alejandro Mayorkas will testify in front of Senate committees this morning, while Tony Blinken and Lloyd Austin are scheduled to appear before the Foreign Relations and the Armed Services Committees, respectively, this afternoon. More below. A report in  Politico indicates that Biden’s transition team is alarmed about the number of Trump appointees “burrowing into career positions throughout the federal government.” Biden has selected Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be assistant secretary of health. If approved, Levine would be the first openly transgender official confirmed by the Senate.

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