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3. Trump opens exhibit honoring 'heroes and martyrs' of the American Revolution

In a Truth Social post Thursday, Trump announced the opening of “SPIRIT OF ‘76 AT FREEDOM PLAZA,” which he described as “a new Exhibition in Washington, D.C., honoring the Heroes and Martyrs of the American Revolution.”

“This Exhibition includes a series of statues, including an equestrian statue of Founding Father Caesar Rodney, 12 Soldiers of the Revolution, and a set of reliefs honoring the Prison Ship Martyrs," he wrote. "The nearly 12,000 Americans who lost their lives aboard British ships in conditions of unimaginable deprivation, squalor, and disease. More Americans died on these prison ships than in all of the War’s battles combined – Many of whom willingly endured suffering and death rather than renounce the Patriot cause.”

Trump said the exhibit will be anchored by a central bronze statue called the "Spirit of Liberty," which will wield the Declaration of Independence and a sword pointed to the sky.

The National Park Service provided additional details about the exhibition on its website, clarifying that it is temporary, not permanent. The exhibit is located on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest between 13th and 14th Streets, near the White House.

Trump stressed the historical significance of Caesar Rodney in a subsequent Truth Social post.

“250 years ago, on the eve of America’s momentous vote for Independence, Caesar Rodney received word that he was urgently needed to break a deadlock among the Delegates to the Second Continental Congress. Although he suffered from asthma and facial cancer, Rodney immediately set forth on a 80-mile overnight journey by horseback from Dover, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”

“Enduring a raging thunderstorm, he arrived 250 years ago this very day, July 2, 1776, to cast his decisive vote, and secure America’s glorious destiny of Freedom and Independence,” Trump added.