Display on the National Mall 100 Christmas Trees, medium height. Each representing a different part of America that makes us great. Each tree needs 300 ornaments, so 30,000 ornaments total.
- Scouting Tree (There are 248 scouting councils in the U.S.. Each creates one ornament to represent them).
-Law enforcement Tree ( Each of the 50 U.S. states can submit 6 ornaments. Have 6 sheriff, police, etc... submit one to represent their department for each state).
Union Tree - (Have the labor unions submit a total if 300 ornaments to represent tgeir workers)
Rock-N-Roll Tree - (Have the Rock music community submit ornaments for their tree)
Hip-Hop Tree
Country Music Tree
Army Tree
Navy Tree
Air Force Tree
Marine Tree
Coast Guard Tree
Space Force Tree
Wounded Veteran's Tree
First Responder Tree (ENS, Fire fighters)
Farmers Tree
Fisherman's Tree
Baker's Tree
Construction Tree
Asian Community Tree
Hispanic American Tree
Black Community Tree
American Theater Tree
Etc... .
100 individual trees, each small enough to have individual themes and get its own attention, each having special ornaments donated from the community. Trees not too big, so 300 ornaments will be enough for each. Everyone represented.
Auto workers, plumbers, electricians, wood workers, immigrants, etc... everyone who built this nation has a place of respect. After Christmas, the ornaments can be put on display for a year at the Smithsonian.
I think it would be an excellent way for the Trump Administration to show that EVERYONE who helps build America is important. Noone is forgotten.
We celebrate differences that make America great.
Christmas plans? In May? Only anons would think of that!
Oh, ye of little festivites. I know people who have been planning since January.
Honk Honk!! For the Truckers Tree.
And The Reason For The Season Tree for the Truthers.
I'd prefer economic relief instead of money spent on something temporary
As a 70s hippie-type once remarked, "EVERYTHING in life is 'temporary'."
I never forgot it. It is a great perspective leveler.
My Take ,Life is Fixing things and Refilling things.
I'm a BIG NO on the "hyphenated-American" trees, terms like "Hispanic-American" were created to DIVIDE us, WE are ALL Americans...period.
if they are born here
Citizens, born here or otherwise.
Big ass no. Woke shit.
There is a People's Tree, which represents a different state each year. Ornaments for the 2026 People's Tree (U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree) will be made by residents of Idaho, who will supply 10,000 handmade ornaments collected from Idaho schools, community groups, artists, and tribal partners.
The theme for 2026 is “Over the rivers and through the woods”, encouraging designs that reflect Idaho’s landscapes, wildlife, history, and culture.
That's great, but it's one different state each year. In 50 years, each state will get a chance to be represented. I'm thinking more of a garden of trees, maybe 5 rows of 20 trees each. It would be more intimate and represent the crafts, skills and communities that built our nation.
Since you have mentioned Asian community tree and a Hispanic community tree, what do you think of a Founders' Tree (with ornaments representing the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a tree for famous Black people, Crispus Attacks and other patriots and some others who gave all for the cause, such as forgotten patriot , Haym Salomon?
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/haym-salomon
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/jewish-patriots/
Not prejudice, but what about “White American Tree”? If we separate Asians, Blacks and Hispanics, must be a category for WA.
Are we sure that the Trump Administration believes that EVERYONE who helps build America is important in the way most americans do?
What is it?
Don't understand
I love the concept- but race, religion, creed, etc. passively promotes division, in my opinion. The other themes represent what we all have in common as American citizens.
Wasn't Christmas 2025 the last one, per trump?
He has enough stuff to do.
This is a brilliant idea. I LOVE IT!!!!
"Noone is forgotten. We celebrate differences that make America great." ..I can't locate the Caucasian 'white' Tree. Does America get to celebrate that? Where's the Arabic Mohammed tree? Yeah. I don't think separating the ethnicities is a good thing. ..A "hip-hop tree"...the music that celebrates violence, drugs and calls women bitches and police, pigs? Make Pimps great again, eh. No thanks. I stopped watching NFL because all I see are entitled, young thugs who can't sit up straight, speak clearly in English, seem to love gold, diamonds and platinum, fast cars and mansions. ..A Union tree...the same unions that protest their $40/hr wages aren't enough to buy themselves more vacations or electronics or designer clothes...? Teachers have a union that decided to shut down learning in social situations and suffocate children's brain cells...Randi Weingarten needs to sit in a prison cell for the rest of her miserable communist existence. ...creativity is fraught with challenges...
Unions are a reflection of the membership. We all have a right to associate freely and organize for common representation. My union was roughly divided into half conservative views and half liberal views. But the union council was dominantly liberal. The conservatives stewed about that. When I urged them to run for council office, they would turn it down. "I don't want to get involved in THAT." So, they would rather suffer and bitch than raise a finger to make a change. That gave me a very low opinion of the political dedication of declared conservatives. (I was, and am, a conservative.)
Wages need to go down. Executives need bigger bonuses. The rich need to get richer and wage workers need to be happy with whatever scraps they get. Smart.
Hourly wage workers do not take on the financial and legal business risk that owners do. Exempt salaried workers carry more responsibility and production demands and have also usually gone to school to earn college degrees; they deserve higher wages than union workers. There is an employment hierarchy in a capitalist society for reasons. Socialists enjoy unions. I don't and frankly, think they've helped destroy America. It appears 'smart' is subjective, friend.
Lost me at "Hip Hop Tree"
Yeah. If we can't control every tree from each community, then forget about it.