Showing posts with label John Thune. Show all posts
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President Trump on Mount Rushmore?


Now it's 2025 and we're almost at the point when President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in. His election just got certified earlier this month and his mandate-driven national election is underway before he's even sworn in as he said he would be working to make sure things got off to a good foot, and full steam ahead in that's right folks Making America Great Again!

So while Trump is out preparing his plans to realize his childhood dream of being enshrined on Mount Rushmore? Did you even know this was a dream of his? We sure didn't until recently and the the big question is how far up the mountain does the former and future president want to climb with his fantasy and is a plan already in his back pocket? There is tons of space, and even a spot which don's a parts which well look like the mans hair in place waiting for his face just below to be carved!

This art work is selling like crazy over on Amazon and looks about perfect to me. The artist who made that is Jon McNaugton. Props to him for such a nice rendering of what this could look like.

Now looking back in 2020, it was South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem who shone the July 4th spotlight on Trump at a fundraiser he held at Mount Rushmore in her home state, comparing him to Teddy Roosevelt, whose face is tucked between fellow former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln on the national monument.

Roosevelt actually spent his early adult years in neighboring North Dakota raising cattle, shortly after he suffered the same-day deaths of his first wife and his mother of unrelated ailments. After comparing Trump to the famous “Rough Rider,” Noem later told reporters that Trump confided to her his “childhood dream” of being on Mount Rushmore.

The Republican governor didn’t shut Trump down, but she pointed out there appeared to be no more room on the mountain for his mug. But that didn’t stop Trump from having himself inserted in a publicity pix at the end of Mount Rushmore’s national necklace of four U.S. presidential heads already there.

So, was Trump’s appointment of Noem as his administration’s new U.S. secretary of homeland security part of his plan to occupy space next to George Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt? We wondered if any of those drills could be repurposed for some mountain sculpting?

Before you dismiss this as crazy idea, consider this as it's fact that this land is federal government owned, which is enough to give one a thought here. Everyone of those men on there now have one major thing in common. They all purchased land which is now or was under USA control for this binds them. 

From the Louisiana purchase to others it's only natural if Trump some how gets control of the Panama Canal, renames the Gulf of Mexico into "The Gulf of America" as I'm going to call it from now on ANYWAY! Oh and don't forget there is vibes being put out about buying Greenland and perhaps even merging the USA with Canada under Trump.

Also with this said will newly elevated South Dakota Republican and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who had been a critic of Trump, wind up having to deal with a monument move before Trump leaves office? PERHAPS!

This would be a very funny turn of events as we're all now watching the left lose time, and time again and Trump and the GOP winning over, and over again. Nothing the left does turns out good while Trump is winning on all fronts.

Here is a little history: The National Park Service has turned a thumbs down to past suggestions of adding faces to Mount Rushmore, noting not enough secure rock is available near the already sculpted faces for additional carving.

Did Trump sweeten the pot by picking North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as his U.S. secretary of the interior? Burgum’s state is building the new Theodore Roosevelt Library (with some federal help). In his statement appointing Burgum to his Cabinet, Trump said the GOP governor would be part of the administration’s “DRILL BABY DRILL” energy plans. But the monument’s sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, did claim Mount Rushmore only represented the first 150 years of United States history.

In 1937, while work on the sculpture was still in progress, a bill was introduced in Congress to add women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony. It failed to advance. More recently, in 2010, a Gallup Poll listed assassinated President John F. Kennedy, as the top choice of Americans to be added. 

In 1985, some suggested President Ronald Reagan be placed on Mount Rushmore which turned out not to happen but, these days, nothing seems impossible when it comes to Trump.