Trump on Mount Rushmore ?

[left-of-center2012]

The White House reportedly asked South Dakota's governor how to add another president to Mount Rushmore.

South Dakota's governor, Kristi Noem, recalled her first meeting with Trump in the oval office: "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?' I started laughing," she said. "He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious."

Last year, a White House aide contacted the office of South Dakota's governor, Republican Kristi Noem, to inquire about the process for adding more faces, according to The New York Times. The Times cited a Republican official familiar with the conversation.

Noem, a close ally of President Trump's, has since played into that dream, at least with the power she has. When Trump visited the monument in early July for an Independence Day speech, she greeted him with a four-foot model of Mount Rushmore with his face carved into it, citing a source familiar with the exchange.

To be clear, adding another face to Mount Rushmore is not possible. While it looks like there's a spot to the right of George Washington — which is actually where the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, intended to put Thomas Jefferson — the rock surface is unstable. (Perfect spot for an unstable president)

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-gov-noem-trumps-desire-carved-into-mt-rushmore-2020-8

[LizBeth]

1. Well, if you are going to put his face up, an unstable place is where it goes.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. Cancun has already erected a monument to the Fat One.

It's underwater.

[RainCaster]

2. I want his face in the outhouse urinal

I'm sure the tribes could get behind that.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Yes, Mt. Flushmore.

I'd be first in line.

[RainCaster]

4. Excellent name!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Well, he wants a Nobel Peace Prize too.

And the people in Hell want ice water.

Actually, I'd like it if a huge statute of him were put up somewhere just so we could pull it down and stomp the shit out of it, as with the Confederate generals' statutes and the one of Saddam Hussein, like this:

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

[rso]

9. Rushmore

That poem is the only one I remember from high school, many moons ago. It struck a nerve then, when all I was interested in really was hanging out with friends, and I have never forgotten it.

[RainCaster]

6. A better image- for the men's room at Mt Rushmore

[42bambi]

7. Someone should attach the Baby Trump Balloon on top of Lincoln's head, he did

say he was a better President than Lincoln.

[Newest Reality]

8. There are...

There are plenty of sewage treatment plants to put his face on and they are about getting the "trump" out of the water. Very befitting. Name one after him, too, and forgo any library ideas because we already have case law libraries about crimes.

[IggleDuer]

10. Can we just plant some mushrooms on the ground near the parking lot?

N/T

[lpbk2713]

11. If they really need to put it somewhere ...

they can put it at the entrance to the DC sewage plant.

[Doreen]

12. TARGET PRACTICE!!!

[spanone]

13. yea, well fuck him and his dreams

[Blue Owl]

15. The Floundering Failure has no place among the Founding Fathers

n/t

[First Speaker]

17. Maybe he should pass a little test first, to see if he's really right for the spot...

...my suggestion: have him climb down the mountain, like Cary Grant in *North By Northwest*. If he survives, then let him have his face plastered up there, by all means. If not... well, at least he tried. Incidentally--I wouldn't mind seeing old Cary himself up there. Could anyone object to *that*?

[chriscan64]

18. Tell him he has to pass a history quiz.

"In what year did the Influenza pandemic start?"
"1917 when World War II ended."
"So sorry, we were looking for 1918. Here's a version of the home game."

[JHB]

19. There is a spot where he would fit...

[MurrayDelph]

20. When he asked "what's the procedure"

I wish someone had said "Well, the first thing is you have to be dead for a hundred years, so why don't you get started there."