2026-04-19T09:00:56.275Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：孙伦·瑟法蒂
发布时间：2026年4月19日，美国东部时间凌晨5:00
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这座雕塑园原本规划为纪念美国250周年华诞的大型园区，将设立包括科比·布莱恩特、猫王埃尔维斯·普雷斯利和罗莎·帕克斯在内的250座雕像。
但消息人士向CNN透露，随着7月4日独立日日益临近，特朗普提议的美国国家英雄雕塑园恐怕连一座雕像都无法按时完工。
全美各地申请参与这座巨型古典风格雕塑项目的铸造厂和艺术家尚未收到特朗普政府的任何消息，而这类雕塑往往需要数月时间才能完成。
此外，该花园的规划尚未提交至美术委员会或国家首都规划委员会——这两家政府机构是项目开工前必须获得审批的单位。
“目前尚未进行正式审查，”一位了解规划工作的人士表示，“根据我在特区过往审批的经验，我看不出这个项目能在7月前完工。”
不过项目也取得了一些进展。知情人士告诉CNN，白宫已选定西波托马克公园作为花园选址，这片位于波托马克河畔的风景胜地是观赏华盛顿樱花的热门地点。此外，政府还聘请了华盛顿特区建筑师迈克尔·弗兰克为该项目提供咨询。
但白宫尚未正式公布选址地点，消息人士称，即便这一选址也可能发生变动。
该项目的延期与波折，反映了特朗普重塑美国首都建筑与文化的整体努力——其中包括计划修建一座取代东翼的巨型白宫宴会厅，以及在阿灵顿国家公墓附近修建一座受部分退伍军人团体反对的金色凯旋门。
一些批评人士担忧，美术委员会或国家首都规划委员会可能会对该雕塑园草草通过审批，毕竟这两家机构均由特朗普任命的官员主导。
一位熟悉建筑审批流程的消息人士担心，该雕塑园“会像白宫宴会厅项目一样，未经国会或相关委员会批准就强行推进”。
周四的美术委员会会议未讨论该花园项目，国家首都规划委员会的消息人士也表示，他们不知道近期月度会议的日程中有任何审查该项目的安排。
白宫拒绝置评。
错过的截止日期与多次波折
该项目是特朗普多年来的个人构想。六年前，时任第45任总统在拉什莫尔山脚下的政治演讲中首次提出这一想法。
特朗普当时宣布，他决定委托建造一座“纪念我们过往伟人的纪念碑”，这将是一座“广阔的户外公园，将矗立有史以来最伟大美国人的雕像”。
此后不久，白宫发布行政令，要求建造美国国家英雄雕塑园，并于2026年7月4日前对外开放。
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但该项目经历了多次波折。
2020年的行政令在2021年被总统乔·拜登撤销，特朗普连任后又在就职数日后重新发布。
在第二个任期内，特朗普从国家人文基金会（NEH）、国家艺术基金会（NEA）和博物馆与图书馆服务研究所划拨资金，用于支持他所倡导的文化项目，其中就包括美国国家英雄雕塑园。
据CNN获取的内部文件显示，国家人文基金会和国家艺术基金会已共同为该花园预留了3400万美元资金，其中国家艺术基金会计划拨款1700万美元。
去年，《One Big Beautiful Bill Act》法案为内政部拨款4000万美元，用于该花园的建立和维护。
国家人文基金会于2025年4月开始征集艺术家申请制作雕像，原计划在2025年9月通知申请者是否入选。
根据国家人文基金会制定的时间表，入选者需在2026年6月前完成雕像制作。
去年夏天，当项目显然无法实现今年7月前交付250座雕像的初始目标时，目标被调整：新的计划是在7月揭幕时完成数量少得多的25至50座雕像，其余225座雕像将在未来几年陆续添加。
然而，目前尚不清楚是否有艺术家入选，也不清楚雕像制作是否已经启动。
CNN联系了众多申请参与该项目的铸造厂和艺术家，未发现有任何人承接该花园的制作工作。
这些雕像计划采用古典写实风格，由大理石、花岗岩、青铜、铜或黄铜制成，高度将比真人高出1.2倍，总高度在6英尺至8英尺之间。
多位消息人士告诉CNN，除华盛顿特区外，南达科他州的布莱克 Hills和费城也曾被列为花园选址。
南达科他州的游说力度最大。州长拉里·罗登已确定了拟议的园区用地——一片位于拉什莫尔山视野范围内的40英亩土地，当地久负盛名的林恩家族还提出捐赠一片狭长土地。
不过，特朗普在今年1月接受《纽约时报》采访时被问及该花园时表示，它“最有可能位于华盛顿的波托马克河畔”。他补充道：“这将是一个美丽的综合园区。”
Trump wants a sculpture garden for America’s 250th birthday. Sources say it’s unlikely even one statue will be ready.
2026-04-19T09:00:56.275Z / CNN
By Sunlen Serfaty
PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on April 10.
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It was envisioned as an expansive sculpture garden to honor America’s 250th birthday, with 250 statues of figures like Kobe Bryant, Elvis Pressley and Rosa Parks.
But with July 4th rapidly approaching, it’s unlikely that even one statue for President Donald Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be erected in time, sources familiar with the planning tell CNN.
Foundries and artists from across the country who applied to work on the massive, classical-style, sculptures – which would take months to build – haven’t heard from the Trump administration.
And plans for the garden haven’t been submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts or the National Capital Planning Commission — two government agencies whose approval is needed before it can be built.
“It has not been formally reviewed,” a person familiar with planning efforts said. “Based on my experience in prior approvals in the District, I don’t see how this could be in place in time by July.”
There has been some progress. The White House has zeroed in on West Potomac Park – a picturesque plot of land along the Potomac River popular for viewing Washington’s cherry blossoms – as the site for the garden, people familiar with the plans told CNN. And the administration has hired Michael Franck, a Washington, DC-based architect, to advise the project.
But the White House hasn’t formally announced the location, and sources say even that could change.
The project’s delays and twists are emblematic of Trump’s broader efforts to reshape the architecture and culture of the nation’s capital — including plans for an enormous White House ballroom that would replace the East Wing and a gold-accented triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery that some veterans groups oppose.
Some critics worry the sculpture garden will also be given a rubber stamp by the CFA or the NCPC, which have been stacked by Trump appointees.
One source familiar with construction approvals said they feared the sculpture garden “will be rammed through without approval” by Congress or the commissions, “as in the case of the White House ballroom.”
The garden was not discussed at Thursday’s CFA meeting, and sources on the NCPC say they were not aware of any plans on the schedule in upcoming monthly meeting to review the project.
The White House declined to comment.
Missed deadlines, and many fits and starts
The project is a personal endeavor for Trump that’s years in the making. It’s an idea first presented during a political speech the then-45th president made at the base of Mount Rushmore six years ago.
Trump announced that he decided to commission a monument “to the giants of our past” that would be a “vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live.”
Shortly after, the White House released an executive order calling for the creation of the National Garden of American Heroes to open before July 4, 2026.
Trump arrives for Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, on July 3, 2020. The garden concept was proposed by Trump at the event.
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But the project has gone through many fits and starts.
A 2020 executive order was revoked by President Joe Biden in 2021, and then reissued days after Trump retook office.
In his second term, Trump has pulled money from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to fund cultural initiatives he backs, including the National Garden of Heroes.
The NEH and NEA have jointly set aside $34 million for the garden, with the NEA planning to contribute $17 million for the project, according to internal documents seen by CNN.
And last year, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” appropriated $40 million to the Department of Interior to establish and maintain the garden.
The NEH started soliciting artists in April of 2025 to apply to make the sculptures and artists were supposed to be informed if they were chosen in September 2025.
According to the timeline laid out by NEH, those chosen were to have completed their sculptures by June 2026.
When it became clear last summer that the project would not meet its initial goal of delivering 250 statues by this July, the goalposts were moved, with a new focus to have a much smaller number of statues – 25 to 50 – in place and completed for the unveiling in July. The rest of the 250 statues would be added in years ahead.
However, it is not clear if any artists have been chosen or if work has started on the sculptures.
CNN reached out to numerous foundries and artists who applied to work on the project and could not find anyone who had been engaged for work on the garden.
The statues are intended to be classical, lifelike and should be created from marble, granite, bronze, copper or brass and 1.2 times the historical height of the individual amounting to statues between 6 feet and 8 feet tall.
Besides Washington DC, Black Hills, South Dakota and Philadelphia were also considered as sites for the Garden, numerous sources have told CNN.
South Dakota had made the most forceful pitch. Governor Larry Rhoden had identified proposed land for the garden– a 40-acre area in sight of Mount Rushmore, and a long-established South Dakota family, the Lien family,had offered to donate a strip of land.
When asked in January by the New York Times about the garden, though, Trump said it would be “most likely right on the Potomac River” in Washington. “It’s going be a beautiful complex,” he added.