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

[orangecrush]

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.

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

[rampartd]

1. if you had 1 stick of dynamite, would you use it on the ball room

the arch or trump's head on mt rushmore or the golden blessed statue at mar a lago?

[orangecrush]

2. One sick puppy

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. I read that Mt. Rushmore is cracking from the inside.

So jackhammering the mountain would not be a good idea

[Rebl2]

4. No room

for his head on Mount Rushmore because it’s way too BIG. Find a mountain in a secluded area, that is difficult to reach and put it there. He of course he will never see it. He will be long dead before it would be finished.

[Ms. Toad]

5. That was my first thought when his schedule revealed cax day trip to Mt. Rushmore

Here we go, again.

[Solly Mack]

6. I see them chipping away to add Trump's ugly mug and all the faces cracking off and falling to the ground

in pieces.

The world laughs.

[indusurb]

7. Well, if he tries to do that he'll destroy the entire monument

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt were all originally supposed to be three quarters to full figure carvings. Then they started working with the mountain and the rock and realized neither could take the strain of that kind of project, and frankly considered themselves lucky to get the four busts carved without the entire thing collapsing. They already have to do a lot of maintenence just to keep everything from falling apart. Carving anything else into the rock would cause the whole thing to collapse.

[orangecrush]

13. He would love that

[MurrayDelph]

8. I am ok with his putting his face on Mount Rushmore

as long as it is applied by firing him from a cannon at high speed.

[badhair77]

9. He ruins everything.

[Prairie Gates]

10. Fuck Mount Rushmore

[malaise]

11. Great legacy indeed

The RRFCPE
Racist Rapist First Convicted President Ever

[struggle4progress]

12. ...

It always remonds me of this November 1955 FANTASTIC UNIVERSE cover

[moondust]

14. Not enough room?

Trump, Blanche, and General Mike Flynn--leaders of the Trump Confederacy riding golf carts?

[ColoringFool]

15. We're Approaching "Trump States of America" Territory......

Or would that be "The United States of Trump"?

"Many people say that we should re-name the greatest country in history for the greatest President in history. You all heard this. I have to agree, because I have turned the terrible Biden economy around with the Trump Tariffs. We're making so much money, the world respects us now. Soon Denmark, Sweden?, whatever will be begging us to take over decrepit and dying Greenland. They want our great Trumpcare health plan. I asked their Prime Minister, King?, whatever if Greenland had a sculptor who could put me on Mt. Rusher. We'll see."