Trumpius Caesar Maximus Declares the Deed of H.R. 165

In the golden shadow of the White House columns, Trumpius Caesar Maximus rose — laurel upon his head, pen forged in the likeness of an eagle — and with thunderous solemnity signed a law that caused History itself to pause, briefly, and adjust its toga.

On the 19th day of December, in the modern year of 2025, the Imperator proclaimed with imperial gravity:
“This is not just a law. This is memory, carved into legislation.”

With H.R. 165 — the Edict for the Sanctification of Wounded Knee — Trumpius commanded that a sacred stretch of land in the plains of South Dakota be granted a special and protected status. Not for towers, not for treasure, but for dignity. The Secretary of the Interior was instructed to act with the seriousness of a Roman archivist and place the land into restricted fee status for the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes.

Trumpius Caesar announced this act as one of imperial remembrance:
“Some places are not property. They are chapters. And chapters are not closed — they are preserved.”

Thus, land became legacy, bureaucracy became ritual, and a signature echoed like a decree across centuries.