Trump signs bill to upgrade Martin Luther King's birthplace to national historic park
Whether you're young, old, rich or poor, natural disasters don't discriminate. Even Oprah is faced with devastation in the aftermath of the deadly Montecito mudslides that claimed the lives of at least 15 people. USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Trump signed a bill Monday to expand the Rev. Martin Luther King's birthplace in Atlanta into a national historical park — the first such park in Georgia. Trump signed Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2017 aboard Air Force One after touching down in Marietta, Ga., to attend the college football national championship game between the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. Alveda King, niece of the slain civil rights leader, joined Trump for a small, private bill-signing ceremony aboard Air Force One. "Through his life and work, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made America more just and free," White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters aboard the plane. "