This is a headline I never expected to write. But it’s no joke. Republicans are pushing the idea of adding Trump to the nation’s pantheon of great presidents: Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
The New York Times has a digital representation of the issue. It shows Mount Rushmore as it currently exists and shows what it would look like if Trump were added.
A crazy idea, no? Some Republicans are taking it very seriously. They consider Trump a demi-god, more significant to them than Eisenhower or Reagan. And what a way to “own the libs”!
The idea has resurfaced since Mr. Trump returned to office. A congresswoman from Florida sponsored a bill in January to “direct the Secretary of the Interior to arrange for the carving of the figure of President Donald J. Trump on Mount Rushmore National Memorial.” It was referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources, which has yet to act on it.
In March, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in an interview with Lara Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law, that “they definitely have room” for Mr. Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore.
Wait. Is this possible?
As with all things Trump, it can be hard to decipher the difference between everyday rhetoric and future action. But those in charge of the memorial are taking such overtures seriously.
Trump has so many firsts. First convicted felon to be elected. First President to be impeached twice in one term. First President to use the Oval Office to sell merchandise and use the office to enrich himself through cryptocurrency, which he both sells and regulates and massive real estate development deals (resorts and hotels) which The Trump Organization has contracted to build, especially in the Middle East. Selling the opportunity to meet or dine with the President for $1 million-$5 million per person.
The National Park Service said there was not enough room on the face of the monument to add any more. But NPS can be overruled by the Secretary of the Interior.
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To answer the question in the title … only if the back of the mountain were carved to show the four current president’s asses and Trump inserted between them. Even assholes deserve company.
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Steve probably has the perfect reply.
At a moment like this in history, satire and comedy are some of our best defenses.
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John,
Humor and art may be the best protection for our sanity.
And history….so we remember that we went through terrible times and then things got better.
Slavery.
Civil War.
Post-Reconstruction terrorism.
Jim Crow.
World War 1.
The Palmer raids.
The Great Depression.
World War 2.
McCarthyism.
The Korean War.
The 60’s, including riots, civil uprisings, the assassination of three national leaders.
The Vietnam War.
Fill in the rest: disastrous wars in the Middle East. The Great Recession of 2008.
Maybe I forgot other cataclysmic events.
We survived and righted the ship of state.
The only thing we can’t survive is the secret rigging of electronic voting machines to keep one party permanently in power.
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Steve,
Great idea!!
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The four faces on Mt. Rushmore shouldn’t be there — another example of Whiteignorance. This is sacred ground to Native Americans. It was given back to the tribesand then taken away again by the U.S. government. Adding Trump would be the ultimate insult, just as giving him a Nobel Peace Prize would be. Trump thinks you can demand and itshould be given. But he is the last person on earth who deserves it.
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If any president should have been added after the original 4, it should have been FDR. These sycophants are just tripping over one another to satisfy their Dear Leader, who is soooo needy & insecure, that putting him on Mt Rushmore or giving him a Nobel Prize will make him soooo happy! At least wait until he is 6 feet under, like the other presidents. Let’s see if he really Makes America Great Again before memorializing him.
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I agree!
FDR was one of our greatest presidents!
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It’s sad and unfair that the real carver of the faces, as he hung on ropes to do it, was an Italian immigrant named, Luigi Del Bianco. His grandson, Lou Del Bianco, has spent years fighting to get recognition for his grandfather and was recently successful after decades to have Luigi’s name added to historical information at Mt Rushmore.
Lou Del Bianco is a talented actor/storyteller whose presentaton I was lucky enough to attend a few years ago at St John’s University on the Jamaica campus. Next I will forward some recent info about him.
Sincerely, Roberta M. Eisenberg SJU 1962 BS in Mathematics & Secondary Education Also an Italian American
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Trump in stone reminds me that Joe Stalin was also in stone once. Now all that bronze and stone are gone.
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The idea in your comment was rattling around in my head but never made it onto this keyboard. Yes! Well said. Thanks, Roy.
Enjoy the weekend.
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Hell no!
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I’ve read that there isn’t enough stable rock left to add another mugshot to that area on Mt. Rushmore.
To have his face added, they might have to bolt Trump’s gilded image over one of the other presidents, erasing him, but which one does Trump hate the most? Probably Lincoln.
Still, Trump won’t want any of the other images to be taller than him, which means the fractured rock area next to Washington’s right ear that has a higher elevation.
Instead of carving Trump’s face in that rock, which may be impossible, they could cut out a 100-foot-high notch, reinforce it and built the statue of Trump’s entire body somewhere else, looking like superman with Trump’s face, and airlift it in, inserting it in the that slot.
There is no way Turmp will let anyone else be taller than him on Mt. Rossmore. He will want to tower over them all and be gilded in gold.
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Just have them all holding tacos – same thing.
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