One for the “that’s just embarrassing” file:
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.
Meaning, Trump hacks asked South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem if she would please add Donald Trump’s face to the four faces carved into that slab of rock to make the world’s tackiest whatever-that-is.
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.
It’s ugly, it’s tacky, it’s silly, it’s inappropriate, it’s yet another theft from Native Americans, and did I mention it’s ugly? It’s so ludicrous that Trump bothers to think about it, let alone thinking he’s MonuMental.
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.”
Because he’s that stupid and that vain. Yes. There is no limit to his stupidity and vanity.
Donnie’s never going to be on a monument. Donnie will be lucky to avoid prison (and I hope he doesn’t avoid it).
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7 responses to “He has a dream”
Well, even if they don’t carve The Donald’s likeness on the mountain, maybe he can at least get ahold of that papier-mâché model to display at one of his golf resorts, alongside the fake Time Magazine cover.
Decorating Mt. Rushmore with Donnie’s entrails would be more apropos. But only if they are biodegradable, which is far from certain. The unmitigated gall, literally.
I say let Trump’s face be added to it, on condition that he do so himself, personally, using nothing but a plastic spoon.
I say let’s do it! As long as the artist who restored the Ecce Homo fresco of Jesus in Borja, Spain does the likeness.
I say do it as long as we attach trump to the rock face using dynabolts, then spray cover him in carbonite.
Maybe if they build a monument to stupidity. Or tyranny. Or greed.
He’d need a lot more friends in Congress than he thinks he already had…