Trump heads to Mount Rushmore, where efforts to impose his likeness have stalled

[orangecrush]

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Source: CNN

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He's brought it up jokingly at campaign rallies, posted hints on social media and called it a "good idea." He even raised the possibility with South Dakota's governor during his first term, saying to then-Gov. Kristi Noem during an Oval Office meeting: "Do you know it's my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?"

"I started laughing," Noem recalled in a 2018 interview with the Argus Leader. "He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious. ... I said, 'Come pick out a mountain.'"


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Nevertheless, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who oversees the National Park Service, said during an interview that there is "certainly" room for Trump's face. And Trump ally Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, has introduced legislation that would arrange the carving, which she said would "reflect his towering legacy."

The bill is currently stalled, and her office did not respond to CNN's request for comment on whether Friday's trip will prompt a renewed push for passage. The legislation has little to no chance at clearing the Senate, where it would need Democratic votes.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/politics/trump-speech-mount-rushmore

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This is mental illness.

God help us.

[johnnyfins]

1. The instablility of the mountain makes it

Impossible to add heads. This IS an illness.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. He'd prefer a pile of rocks

over being unable to chisel his grim visage into the mountain.

[orangecrush]

4. He is more unstable than Mt Rushmore

[generalbetrayus]

2. I read somewhere that the only space available on the face side of Mount Rushmore

is fractured, crumbling rock. Maybe it would be fun to watch his face fall apart before our eyes.

[BattleRow]

20. Hasn't it already?

[dflprincess]

5. The Lakota never ceded that land & have refused payment for it

They might have something to say about adding Trump to Mt Rushmore.

[GiqueCee]

6. They should have plenty to say...

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... but ain't nobody in the Trump regime gonna listen to 'em.
Capitol Hill, like Mar-a-Lago, is infested with cockroaches like that Texas rep, Troy Nehls, who recently said, in response to a question regarding his position on affordability, "Donald Trump is the best president in my lifetime!"
WHOOPS! There goes the last vestige of his self-respect.

[louis-t]

7. Use the photo of him asleep with his mouth drooping on one side

as a model. Maybe add a booger coming out of his nose.

[SCantiGOP]

8. I would like to add one more

I realize the problem with the geology on the site, but if we could add a fifth honoree it should obviously be the man who defeated both the Great Depression and the European and Asian fascist empires, Franklin Roosevelt.

[The Grand Illuminist]

9. Another dogging scheme.

That's all it is.

[FakeNoose]

10. The only way Chump could ever belong on Mount Rushmore...

... is if the plan were to show a Best-To-Worst scenario.

Then, yeah - he's the worst we will ever or could ever have.

But why would he want that, and why would WE want that?

[Multichromatic]

11. OMG!!! What is wrong with this sick fuck? Does he have to destroy EVERYTHING!!?!??!

I hope Trump has a great day give a speech on the 4th of July. Perhaps he can William Henry Harrison himself.

[Prairie Gates]

12. Contrary opinion - Mount Rushmore is a garbage pile built by a conman: Trump would fit right in

If carving his stupid-ass face into the granite hill causes the whole thing to collapse, so much the better.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. They should carve is butt

On the crumbling mountain. Him shitting on America is more appropriate.

[dalton99a]

19. +1. A well-known racist who attended Klan rallies and served on Klan committees

While it has been claimed that Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan,[7] an article in the Smithsonian Magazine denies that there is proof that he officially joined the KKK.[25] That said, he became "deeply involved in Klan politics", attending Klan rallies and serving on Klan committees.[23]: 186  In 1925, having only completed the head of Robert E. Lee, Borglum was dismissed from the Stone Mountain project, with some holding that it came about due to infighting within the KKK, with Borglum involved in the strife.[26] Later, he stated "I am not a member of the Kloncilium, nor a knight of the KKK", but Howard Shaff and Audrey Karl Shaff claim that "that was for public consumption".[27] The museum at Mount Rushmore displays a letter to Borglum from D. C. Stephenson, the infamous Klan Grand Dragon who later was convicted of the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. The 8 ft × 10 ft (2.4 m × 3.0 m) portrait contains the inscription "To my good friend Gutzon Borglum, with the greatest respect." Correspondence from Borglum to Stephenson during the 1920s detailed a deep racist conviction in Nordic moral superiority and strict immigration policies.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum

[Wonder Why]

13. Trump's likeness at Mount Rushmore

[angrychair]

14. Let's be clear

Mt Rushmore is an abomination and straight up theft of native land.
I hope they try and literally bring the whole thing down...which given this idiot's track record of projects, seems more likely than not.
Then they can just leave the Lokota people to their historical burial grounds.

[bluestarone]

15. If you're a believer, PRAY for STRONG STORMS on that crowd only. If you're not a believer, just

at the time of his LYING ASS story telling, just every body think hard about STRONG STORMS. May the power of THOUGHT will succeed!

[young_at_heart]

16. It never stops!

Every day is "Crazy Day"! Even when he had Covid, he dominated the news with his craziness.

[Omaha Steve]

21. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143688968

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