When President Trump tweeted out this “slippery slope” argument after Charlottesville, The Museum on Site responded by making clear that there is very good cause for Washington to be the next American hero whose veneration in our public spaces is called into question. The participatory commemoration portion of Washington’s Next! in Union Square Park seeks simultaneously to honor the 271 individuals that Washington was enslaving at the moment depicted in that particular statue (”Evacuation Day,” November 25, 1783); and to visualize the impossibility of countering the power of Washington’s statue, as the project reframes his pose—based on a famous equestrian statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius—into that commonly found in antebellum depictions of overseers: a white man on a horse, arm outstretched to give orders to the enslaved laborers.