Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia mentioned it indicates “a lot” to have his father, the late US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, integrated in President Trump’s proposed nationwide backyard remembering scores of American heroes.

“It would necessarily mean a good deal. I did not see that one coming … and it was really touching to hear. I hope it would necessarily mean a lot to the American folks, way too,” Scalia claimed on “Fox Information Sunday.”

”We need heroes. We want to admire our forebears and understand what is wonderful and superior in our previous. That is what the president is emphasizing ideal now,” he included.

The president concluded his speech Friday evening at Mount Rushmore by asserting he will indicator an executive buy creating the “National Backyard of American Heroes,” an outdoor park that includes the statues of the “greatest Us citizens to ever reside.”

Along with Scalia, the monuments would commemorate a assortment of famed Americans, such as John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Alexander Hamilton, Frederick Douglass and Dolley Madison.

It comes right after the president signed an government buy last month pertaining to the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act that would allow persons convicted of knocking down statues or defacing monuments to be hit with sentences of 10 years in prison.

The protests that have spread across the country given that the death of George Floyd at the fingers of Minneapolis law enforcement officers on May 25 have included calls for law enforcement and justice reforms.

Some of the protesters have turned their anger on statues of historic figures, toppling them or portray them with graffiti.

They also want US armed service bases that bear the names of Confederate soldiers to be renamed.