Drain the water. Clean up the fireworks stuff. Repair the vandalism that was done. Fill it back up again.
Doug Burgum
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Trump administration; formerly Governor of North Dakota (2016–2024).
From rehabilitating and installing historic memorials, statues and fountains to removing hundreds of instances of graffiti and cleaning up crime on our streets, this administration is proving that American greatness is built through action.
We weren’t expecting that we were going to have a small group of people that wanted to try to destroy effectively what is part of the Lincoln Memorial.
We did have a few vandals, but all that's going to be repairable, and that'll all be fixed in the coming weeks as we go forward.
What they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with, but one of the foundational principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is free speech.
The Golden Age of America isn't just a slogan, it's being rebuilt, one landmark, one street and one victory at a time.
While others accept decline, President Trump and the Department of the Interior are restoring the heart of our nation's capital.
This whole thing was like TR. It was bold. It was audacious. It was impossible.
The Trump administration is taking the handcuffs off American energy producers.
These targeted updates cut through the red tape that has historically deterred investment, ensuring our public lands remain a reliable engine for economic growth and innovation.
While other administrations have let the city fall into decay, President Trump has made Washington, D.C. Safe and Beautiful again and we should all be grateful.
After years of delays and political obstruction from the Biden administration, the Dakota Access Pipeline can finally move forward with certainty.
It’s the backbone of having affordable, reliable and secure American energy to power our country, our electric grid, power our competitiveness in AI, and power all the manufacturing that’s coming back.
The prior administration, under Biden, had gone so far down the path of pursuing the highly subsidized, intermittent, weather-dependent sources of electricity that our grid was at risk.
This Record of Decision, fought for by President Trump and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is a major win for American energy security and the rule of law.
It’s not about the transparency of the donors. This is about Americans celebrating the 250th anniversary, again, the fact we have right now so much to celebrate in our country – and we’re talking about a single event on a single night.
I can’t weigh into the politics of musicians because some musicians want to play music for everybody. And some musicians seem to have segmented their audiences the same way politicians have.
There's a place to have current cultural debates. And then, there's a place to just tell and celebrate our history.





