Donald Trump *actually* wants his face added to Mount Rushmore

President Donald Trump spoke with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem about the possibility of adding his face to the iconic Mount Rushmore. Chris Cillizza explains why it makes perfect sense he’d want to be memorialized this way.

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
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The White House reportedly asked South Dakota’s governor how to add another president to Mount Rushmore, and she later gave Trump a 4-foot replica with his face on it

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56 comments

    1. xlx BONES xlx -what’s ANITA ??? a new conspiracy or do you mean ANTIFA -an Anti fascist group that the orange menace hates cause he IS a fascist , he just doesn’t want to be called one ☝️I have a ? For you …aren’t we supposed to hate fascism here in the land of the free ??? So, Can’t have it both ways as narcissists like the orange menace always want 🙄🙄🙄

    2. @james kenyon Biden thinks there’s 130 million US deaths from the virus. Does it matter that trump miss spoke?

    3. @brian gardner
      You do not know how to use vowels-( an-) so I know you are one of those “uneducated”….that trump just love!….

  1. Drumpf doesn’t joke. His “humor” is always about how stupid someone else is or mocking someone’s problems.

    1. If you read (or have read) his niece Mary’s tell all book, a younger Donald even mocked the serious medical problems of people in his own family (brothers, aunts, etc.). The Psychopath-in-Chief.

    2. No ,all he says are outrageous things ,but when he gets blowback ,he ,and his minions claim he was just kidding.F him

  2. Any monument, statue, carving, likeness, or memorial to Trump is going to need 24-hour policing, or I guarantee it’ll be regularly graffiti’d, defaced, or smashed into little bits.

    1. @John Smith Oh boo hoo, no matter what “the left” does a Trump supporter’s going to criticize it anyway.

  3. They should shell the Mount Rushmore until no face is recognized and leave the natives have their land for themselves

  4. The USA presidential election is nothing but a year long very expensive freak show. What a horrible waste of time and money.

  5. Omg the, “I was joking” defense is the same thing my 11yr old daughter uses when she says something that makes my jaw drop! Many of Donald’s tactics are reminiscent of garde school playground behaviours.

    1. It’s par for a conman, but if they carved a tiny doll-head of Trump in the wall, I’d be satisfied. The comparison in size would sum up why he’s there.

    2. @carol 1 the reason you dont see Trump’s greatness, because you are too much in to CNN…You don’t understand economics, because without good policies our great president worked hard on, you wouldn’t have had a job to go to every day. You need to educate yourself and not be a slave to the media.

    3. Not the best president. Better than Obama who ushered in the age of toxic identity politics. Not to mention giving away free money and shitting on American Companies and Low / Middle Class earners. Being the first Black President doesn’t make a good or bad president. What you accomplish in office is what matters. I didn’t think I’d like Trump but he’s been on paper a fantastic president. Don’t be an idiot and bring up the COVID-19 Deaths. If you want to blame anyone each state should be held responsible to how they responded. Not to mention the American people for being badly obese and unhealthy. Just my two cents.

    1. Trump doesn’t care about being added to MT Rushmore at all , fake news – We want him added to Mt Rushmore , go Trump!!

    2. @Wes Bernard So why is Trump asking the Governor of South Dakota about it?
      You Trump fans never catch the small details – like half the story. You’re such poorly educated people.

  6. Why didn’t you show the UN general assembly laughing at Trump for claiming he had done more than anyone before him?

    1. And a lake of piss below it, after he’d been on it a few days.
      I couldn’t resist pissing on a carving of Trump.
      If I’m ever in New York i’m visiting his Dads grave to piss on it.

    2. If a rock ran as a Democrat, Democrats would relate to it and vote for said rock. Which wouldn’t be that bad because a rock would do less damage than a Democrat.

  7. The only thing Trump’s face will be on will be the FBI’s Most Wanted Poster when he flees to Russia after the election.

  8. By adding trump to mount Rushmore Americans will diminish the accomplishments of the American presidents who are already on Mount Rushmore.

  9. I said this months ago when people instates were “ridding off” historical statues. His intention behind not removing them was because he was hoping for his own to be an addition 😂🤣😂🤣😂

  10. Can it be carved with a mask on? So no one ever has to see his stupid face. Kinda like hiding the shame he ever ran our country?

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