Posted on 08/09/2020 10:59:56 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
White House aides reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last year about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, the New York Times reported.
According to a person familiar who spoke with the Times, Noem then greeted Trump when he arrived in the state for his July Fourth celebrations at the monument with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included his face. Noem has noted before Trump's "dream" to have his face on Mount Rushmore, the Coolidge-era sculpture that features the 60-foot-tall faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
According to a 2018 interview with Noem, the two struck up a conversation about the sculpture in the Oval Office during their first meeting, where she initially thought he was joking. "I started laughing," she said. "He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious."
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Yup. Not much difference between the NYT and the Enquirer. Although the Enquirer has broken more stories than the New York Times.
#metoo
That was my first thought as well. By then, the world will know how close we came to global communist tyranny -- and the thousand years of darkness spoken of by Reagan.
FAKE and GAY not the news or even a story. made up BS
I am seriously surprised that they have not paint bombed it with drones.
An absolute lie. The state government has nothing to do or say about Mt Rushmore’s faces. It’s owned by the feds and maintained by the NPS.
Your last sentence is the bothersome truth.
I used to work with total leftists. NPR, PBS, NYT, WaPo, Newsweek, Time and all the other lefty rags are their bibles.
“Jamie Ehrlich, CNN”
No.
I could see liberal kamikaze runs.
whoopdie frickin’ doooooo....
Your point is?
Think of it this way; If Libs & Greenpeace can find people dumb enough and brave enough to go to the Southern Ocean sit down in a rubber dinghy and try to block a Japanese whaling ship from hunting whales, finding criminal pilots should be a breeze.
Especially some crazy liberal that has some incurable disease that has nothing to live for.
Stacey Abrams is a “ mountain” all unto herself. However, her statue should be placed at SEA WORLD where it would fit right in with the Orca whales and other fish.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
This is Fake News by the failing
@nytimes
& bad ratings
@CNN
. Never suggested it although, based on all of the many things accomplished during the first 3 1/2 years, perhaps more than any other Presidency, sounds like a good idea to me!
Trolling the Left.
I’ve been reading. The national parks administrators want to discourage talk of putting more presidents on Rushmore because there would be no end to it.
The arguments against putting another profile based on structural deficiencies are weak. The original carvings were largely done with directional dynamite blasting. That is not necessary with tools available today.
Back to arguments for a new profile, many have said JFK should be there, others say without question Ronald Reagan should be there. It becomes a popularity contest. This I think is why the administrators have pulled out excuses citing structural instabilities and so on.
One administrator went on about how the current profiles Washington Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln are now about them personally but a more extensive statement about our republic. To me, that’s nonsense. Every American who has studied American history understands why Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln are there, Roosevelt, not so much.
Now why should Trump be there? Yes, he’s popular but so were many Presidents.
I think Donald Trump is going to return the currency to a gold indexed sound money during his second term and this accomplishment will usher in a new Golden Age for America.
Trump will stand out because he will return the country to its founding principles unleashing freedoms that were taken away, restoring dignity to Americans, bringing a new focus to American industries, setting a path forward for all Americans to develop and use their gifts, end abortion and strengthen families, spark a revival in faith, reform the courts, and mot of all end the central banking system and its debt dominance in American lives.
Trump will be different from other past successful presidents such as Reagan because there will be structural changes that will be revolutionary and in keeping with the Founder’s vision.
And where would this new carving be on the monument?
Your opinion about whether the stone will support another face is just that, your opinion.
There is no space for another face on Mt Rushmore
There are plenty of places for a different monument.
I would call your attention to the crazy horse monument.
The tribes don’t like either of the two memorials.
They would come out in force against anymore work....standing rock water protectors would be burial ground protectors.
The lakota are campaigning against a replacement for a bridge on a old highway that services about thirty people
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