{"id":324273,"date":"2020-06-27T03:16:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T03:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324273"},"modified":"2020-06-27T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T03:16:15","slug":"president-trump-signs-executive-order-to-protect-monuments-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-trump-signs-executive-order-to-protect-monuments-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump signs executive order to protect monuments, statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324274 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/trump-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/trump-1-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/trump-1-519x420.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/>US President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Friday said that he had signed a very strong executive order to protect the country&#8217;s\u00a0monuments\u00a0and\u00a0statues\u00a0from vandalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues &#8211; and combatting recent Criminal Violence,\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLong prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier this week, Trump said that he was preparing an order, after protestors tried to tear down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson near the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump&#8217;s order came as many controversial statues across the country have been targeted amid weeks of protests across the country following the death of George Floyd, an African-American man in police custody last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Guard troops has been activated in Washington DC to protect federal\u00a0monuments\u00a0and infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPresident Trump has signed an executive order to ensure anyone that destroys or vandalizes a monument, memorial, or statue is prosecuted to the fullest extent,\u201d The White House said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Friday said that he had signed a very strong executive order to protect the country&#8217;s\u00a0monuments\u00a0and\u00a0statues\u00a0from vandalism. \u201cI just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues &#8211; and combatting recent Criminal Violence,\u201d Trump tweeted. \u201cLong prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[64,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324275,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324273\/revisions\/324275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}