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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT: White House reached out to South Dakota governor about adding Trump to Mount Rushmore
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."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/politics/mount-rushmore-trump-south-dakota/index.html
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)mobeau69
(11,152 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,297 posts)tinrobot
(10,913 posts)He's the one who did the asking.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)captain queeg
(10,231 posts)Hes had to put up with so much, far worse than anyone else in history. I think maybe a super fund site could be named after him, one of those places theyve been working on for 20 years.
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)You can't automatically dismiss stories like this as false. The ass has already done things that sound like articles from The Onion and has the temperament to do more. I'm sure there's allot of Batshit insane stuff they've managed to keep on the down low (maybe as notes for another book).
Ilsa
(61,696 posts)based on trump's previous behavior and comments.