Current SD governor said 2 years ago Trump told her his dream was to have his face on Mount Rushmore

[highplainsdem]

Newsweek article from April 2018, when Kristi Noem was running for governor:


https://www.newsweek.com/mount-rushmore-trumpmore-kristi-noem-south-dakota-donald-trump-mt-rushmore-901431

Representative Kristi Noem, a South Dakota Republican, said President Donald Trump views his own face going up on Mount Rushmore as no laughing matter.

Noem, who is also running for governor of South Dakota, relayed a conversation she had with the president during her first visit to the Oval Office soon after he took office in January 2017. Speaking with Vermillion resident Mitchell Olson during the filming of a carpool karaoke show, Noem described her first brush with the concept of "Mount Trumpmore" being erected atop the 77-year-old Keystone, South Dakota, landmark.

"He said, 'Kristi, come on over here. Shake my hand,'" Noem said, according to an Argus Leader report. "I shook his hand, and I said, 'Mr. President, you should come to South Dakota sometime. We have Mount Rushmore.' And he goes, 'Do you know it's my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?'"

Noem recalled that only one of them thought it was a joke. "I started laughing," said the state's lone U.S. representative. "He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious."

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The article also has video of Trump "joking" about this in Youngstown OH in 2017.

[Newest Reality]

1. Ah! I found the perfect mountain where his face would fit perfectly:

Maybe he should know about this. It has no other faces on it, so there is an immediate vacancy. Get started!

[GemDigger]

2. That is the most fitting place for his face.

Excellent idea!

[Newest Reality]

5. Thanks...

Maybe Mount Junkmore would be a befitting title. The Big Loser at Mount Junkmore.

[GemDigger]

17. Actually, there is one more place that is more fitting.

The Berkeley Pit in Butte, MT is a superfund site because of the decades of mining. Geese are killed by the hundreds every year when they land in the pit.

Because it is a superfund site and incredibly polluted, I think that would be an even better place than a clean dump site. But he needs to hurry up because they are finally cleaning it.

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

[highplainsdem]

8. LOL! Yes, that's where it belongs. On trash, or on a giant manure heap.

[efhmc]

19. Please remember that when properly composted manure has great value.

[Penn Voter]

12. Ah Yes!

The Trump Dump!

[Rstrstx]

20. Leave it as is, it's a superb piece that sums up his presidency

All it needs is some orange spray paint

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Mt. Flushmore.

Perfect fit.

[sop]

3. Maybe Rupert Murdoch will have Trump's face carved on FOX News' Bullshit Mountain?

[underpants]

6. I won't be surprised if they project it up there

I wouldn’t be surprised at all

[underpants]

4. They actually asked a public information person about this?

[Alacritous Crier]

7. Here's a mountain that doesn't even need to be carved...

GOTV!

[Tanuki]

9. He also hopes to be awarded a Nobel Prize

and said he always wanted to have a Purple Heart (but not badly enough to serve in the military).

[dalton99a]

10. Where he belongs

[mackdaddy]

11. It is my dream to have his face on a mug shot,

Wearing an orange jump suit to match his orange makeup.

[Newest Reality]

16. Ah, imagine:

[PCIntern]

13. His dream, our nightmare.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Yeah, that ain't happening. 😂

[sheshe2]

15. As if...

[Doreen]

18. I'm not into guns but every time I hear about

a trump sculpture or painting my first thought is "target practice!!"