Apparently not a hoax: The White House Has 'Asked About Process to Add President to Mount Rushmore'

[hlthe2b]

The White House Has ‘Asked About the Process to Add a President to Mount Rushmore’

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The White House Has 'Asked About the Process to Add a President to Mount Rushmore'

This. Is. Unbelievable.

We all know that Donald Trump wants to be on Mount Rushmore, we have heard him whine that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, and every time he brings up something “jokingly” (something he wants) everyone understands that he’s not “joking,” which is why we all take the comments about a third or fourth term fairly seriously, or at least as seriously as one can when talking about an obese man who is already declining in his early 70s. But apparently the “joke” about Mount Rushmore is serious enough that the White House has “looked into it.”

No, we’re not kidding.

According an article out in today’s New York Times about South Dakota’s governor Kristi Noem, the subject has been raised between the Trump White House and South Dakota:

After all, the president had told her in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on the monument. And last year, a White House aide reached out to the governor’s office with a question, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation: What’s the process to add additional presidents to Mount Rushmore?

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Are they that stupid? Do they believe that South Dakota has a committee of some kind that meets every year to determine whether there’s suddenly a president worthy of putting up on Mount Rushmore? Every ten years? Do they call and ask whether the man who created the monument (Gutzon Borglum) is still dead? Do they not know that it is a federal monument? Actually, it is best that they don’t know that it is a federal monument. Let them believe that South Dakota “owns” it. Indeed, it’s a terribly complicated process and it involves spending a winter in Pierre. That will end the calls.

And what president wants to be the one asking about being on the monument? Doesn’t that alone prove that Trump is unfit for office? We have said this before about the Nobel Peace Prize and we were “joking,” but apparently we need to spell it out. Anyone who expresses a desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize is automatically excluded from consideration, and similarly, any U.S. president that doesn’t turn white in abject horror if someone mentions putting him/her on Rushmore, should be forced to step down. Thankfully, there doesn’t appear to be room even if someone thought it was a good idea, and near as we can tell, there is only one person who thinks adding Trump is a good idea and he didn’t spend a winter in …

We believe that Joe Biden should bring this up during the debate. “Do you really believe that, of all the presidents, you are the one who belongs on Mount Rushmore?” and see how Trump handles it. He will go all-in.

Unbelievable, “process for adding a president …”

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[hlthe2b]

1. Spot on retort:

Link to tweet

[ChazInAz]

37. Lincoln

The mole on Lincoln's cheek.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

2. politicalflare.com? I'll wait for more corroboration

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. Click through the article. It links to the New York Times.

It's mentioned in that article:

After all, the president had told her in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on the monument. And last year, a White House aide reached out to the governor’s office with a question, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation: What’s the process to add additional presidents to Mount Rushmore?

[rurallib]

11. first you have to be dead. See if you (Trump) can arrange that to happen ASAP

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

14. Maybe if we just buy him a few hundred bucks' worth of McDonald's gift cards?

[CTyankee]

23. Really? I didn't know that. I do know you have to be dead to be on a stamp...

[rurallib]

24. Making an assumption based on those on the mountain now.

Actually I believe the choices for who is there now were made by the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum. Since Borglum is long gone, I doubt he will be choosing any more. https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/why-these-four-presidents.htm

I still say a large pile of South Dakota horse shit, maybe with some pig shit and cow shit would be a fine representation of Trump.

[smirkymonkey]

31. Well, I'm all for it then!

A small price to pay.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Well, I'm all for it then!

A small price to pay.

[hlthe2b]

7. A NEW YORK TIMES link was also included. Is THAT ok for YOU?

The paywall for NYT makes it difficult to use as a primary source, but here:


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/us/politics/kristi-noem-pence-trump.html#click=https://t.co/jfvrGHqGlx

After all, the president had told her in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on the monument. And last year, a White House aide reached out to the governor’s office with a question, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation: What’s the process to add additional presidents to Mount Rushmore?

That link appeared in the original linked article too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. Will this do?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/us/politics/kristi-noem-pence-trump.html

[Thekaspervote]

3. and one thinks the defamation to his Hollywood Star is bad? There would be no end

[padah513]

5. Lol yeah

Like people are going to put this future jailbird on Mt. Rushmore with his 36% approval rating.

[5X]

6. I say we name a mountain after him instead.

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[ooky]

19. That was my first thought.

Carve his ass in the mountainside since he talks out of it all the time.

[AZ8theist]

46. ROFLMAO!!!!!

You owe me a new computer screen and a German Pilsner....

[lame54]

56. Mt Flushmore

[lostnfound]

8. If he "wins" the election I'm in favor of it

Make it a symbol of shame for eternity- twenty years from now the future primitives can carve “GOP” or “666” under his chin, whatever suits them. And use it as a garbage dump.

Shame. They have brought so much shame to the country.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Would a tasteful neon sign right on top be good enough?

Oops, my mistake. That's already planned for the Supreme Leader's Compound (formerly known as the White House).

[rurallib]

10. It's South Dakota. There has to be a large pile of horse shit near Mount Rushmore

that someone could stick a sign on calling it the Trump Memorial.

Perhaps those forced to live on a reservation in South Dakota would like to gather horse shit into a large pile for this purpose.

[lastlib]

49. They oughta be able to come up with a truckload of buffalo chips......

Pile those up somewhere, and they won't even have to carve any rock.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Not a hoax; according to today's NYT, Fat Nixon really does want to be on Mt. Rushmore.

After all, the president had told (SD Gov. Noem) in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on the monument. And last year, a White House aide reached out to the governor’s office with a question, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation: What’s the process to add additional presidents to Mount Rushmore?

So last month, when the president arrived in the Black Hills for the star-spangled spectacle he had pined for, Ms. Noem made the most of it.

Introducing Mr. Trump against the floodlit backdrop of his carved predecessors, the governor played to the president’s craving for adulation by noting that in just three days more than 125,000 people had signed up for only 7,500 seats; she likened him to Theodore Roosevelt, a leader who “braves the dangers of the arena”; and she mimicked the president’s rhetoric by scorning protesters who she said were seeking to discredit the country’s founders.

In private, the efforts to charm Mr. Trump were more pointed, according to a person familiar with the episode: Ms. Noem greeted him with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included a fifth presidential likeness: his.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/us/politics/kristi-noem-pence-trump.html

[Lucinda]

39. Oh FFS...

"...Ms. Noem greeted him with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included a fifth presidential likeness: his."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. That's some industrial-strength sucking up,

and I'll bet Fat Nixon keeps that replica in his bedroom and uses it like porn.

[Lucinda]

58. Absolutely!

[Archae]

15. Remember Ferdinand Marcos?

The dictator of the Phillipines?

He had a giant head constructed on a hill, of himself.

Years after he was gone and finally died, some guys blew up most of that head looking for hidden money, that they had heard was in the giant head.
It wasn't.

[soothsayer]

16. There's the rumor needed, just in case

[Generic Other]

17. Oy Vey!

[Lucinda]

40. +1

[Towlie]

18. A sculpture at Mar-A-Lago molded out of ammonium nitrate would be nice.

Even with sculptures of worthy presidents, Mount Rushmore is a defacement of nature and an abomination. I think it should be returned to the Lakota Sioux with an apology and encouragement to do with it as they choose.

[scarletwoman]

59. + 1000!

[Sugarcoated]

20. President Obama

One of the greatest Presidents in history, first black President should be up there

[Mr.Bill]

33. They should tell Trump

Obama is next in line before they consider anyone else.

And it costs five billion dollars, paid in full before any work begins.

[Maru Kitteh]

52. Nobody should be up there. The mountain should be returned to the people who

rightfully own it to do with as they wish.

[NCjack]

21. We could help get Donald's image in front of most children who visit DC.

The Lincoln Memorial could be altered. Change Abe's head to Donnie's. I think that Donnie would find this acceptable.

[Vinca]

22. I think we should get his image in every post office . . . on a wanted poster.

[alwaysinasnit]

25. Maybe the WH people should consult with the Sioux first.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rushmore-sioux/

snip...

In 1927, with a history of turmoil as a background, a white man living in Connecticut came into the Black Hills and dynamited and drilled the faces of four white men onto Mount Rushmore. At the outset of the project, Gutzon Borglum had persuaded South Dakota state historian Doane Robinson the presidents would give the work national significance, rejecting Robinson's initial suggestion that the sculpture honor the West's greatest heroes, both Native Americans and pioneers.

The insult of Rushmore to some Sioux is at least three-fold:

1. It was built on land the government took from them.
2. The Black Hills in particular are considered sacred ground.
3.The monument celebrates the European settlers who killed so many Native Americans and appropriated their land.

To counter the white faces of Rushmore, in 1939 Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear invited sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who worked briefly at Rushmore, to carve a memorial to the Sioux nation in the Black Hills. Perhaps wary of Borglum's troubles with financial administrators, Ziolkowski personally bought a mountain top with a granite ridge and financed the entire project privately. The statue, envisioned as a freestanding sculpture of the great Sioux chief Crazy Horse, will be much larger than any of the Rushmore figures. Korczak Ziolkowski died in 1982, but his family continues to work on this awesome undertaking; Crazy Horse's face was completed and dedicated in 1998. Although the subject of this work addresses one aspect of Rushmore's offenses, the land is still considered Sioux property, and the mountain that the Ziolkowskis are carving is still sacred. The Crazy Horse monument is not without its own dissenters and critics.

[Blue Owl]

26. He might be dumb as a rock...

But let's not deface any rocks by carving out his likeness on them...

[Buns_of_Fire]

27. Okay, here's an idea: Redo Stone Mountain.

Sandblast off Lee, Jackson, and Davis.
Leave the butt end of Traveler (Lee's horse).

* Gets rid of the Civil War imagery.
* Since the horse's ass will remain, there would only be minimal extra work to make it into trump's likeness. A can or two of orange Rust-Oleum should do it.
* There'd be lots more blank space for the laser shows.
* Heads would explode among the MAGAts about whether Robert E., Stonewall, and Jefferson should be replaced by an orange horse's ass.

Everybody wins!

[Captain Zero]

50. Great idea. My first thought exactly.

Get him up there on a horse. Make him pose on a horse for it.

[maxrandb]

28. Don't worry Donnie Dipshit

your image will be up at Post Offices all over the country soon enough.

[Illumination]

48. Maxrandb

For a wanted poster you mean? The list of crimes would be off the charts! What a mobster!

[maxrandb]

61. Yes, they still put the FBI Most Wanted list in the Post Office.

[jmowreader]

29. Mount Rushmore is seismically unstable...

...which means any attempt to carve Trump's face into the mountain could very well cause the other four faces to slide off.

But what would fix Trump's little red wagon is to make a Mount Rushmore-size likeness of Obama out of fiberglass and glue it to the side of the mountain with the same epoxy the tiles in the Boston tunnel are glued to the ceiling with.

[Initech]

30. Shit, he doesn't even deserve a monument at Forest Lawn.

[LiberalArkie]

34. I believe he wants more to have a presidential funeral like J.F.K.s

[smirkymonkey]

35. You have got to be fucking kidding me.

What a flaming narcissist! To have the worst "president" in the history of the nation up there would be a grievous insult to the memories of the other four. It is unthinkable. Who the hell does he think he is?

Even his Hollywood Star has been repeatedly vandalized. Does he really think that any statue, monument or likeness of him - no matter how big - will ever be allowed to stand un-desecrated? He may be able to cheat his way to victory, but that doesn't change the fact that he is the most hated man on the face of the earth.

[Kablooie]

36. If he manages to remain president he will be up there.

If he remains as president after January, America won't be a constitutional republic anymore.
The Constitution will be gone and America will become a true fascist dictatorship so of course Trump will put himself up there.

[LiberalLovinLug]

38. The first Black President surely deserves a place first

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[Harker]

43. Now that has style!

I'd be for adding Trumpsky the way Hitchcock added Martin Landau.

[BHDem53]

41. I remember this being talked about

when raygun was in office. Fortunately there is no orange granite on The Six Grandfathers.

[Illumination]

45. LOL!!! We're going to put an image of an impeached, corrupt, condescending, do nothing,

overweight perv. so called "pres" on Mr. Rushmore? Must have been the Perv-in-Chief's idea. NO ONE would want to look @ that mess of a man-child (that doesn't care if there's bounties on our troops) Or even bounties on Americans! Mary Trump thinks he should be held accountable for the
app. 160,000+++ American deaths that he's had NO CONCERN about whatsoever. Americans just want him GONE & LOCKED UP FOR LIFE! He is a threat to humanity & the world!

[Illumination]

51. Why do his photos always look so phony? Sort of staged with a smug look? Oh that's right-he's

a FAKE PRESIDENT! Makes sense now...

[kskiska]

47. Isn't that kind of like having him painted in on the Mona Lisa?

[CaptainTruth]

53. I'm glad he wants to add Obama to Mt Rushmore.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

54. My choice is Barak Obama.

There are other reasons:

“First, the rock that surrounds the sculpted faces is not suitable for additional carving. When Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore died in 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum closed down the project and stated that no more carvable rock existed.”

As far as I know, no president has stated his desire to have his face carved on the monument while he was still in office. Until now, of course.

[SergeStorms]

55. .."it involves spending a winter in Pierre."

"Hey, Kristi, who's this Pierre guy? Do you think he'd settle for a reach-around?"

[moondust]

57. 1. Buy a Sharpie.

2. Print a picture of Mt. Rushmore.

3. Lay them both on the Resolute desk.

4. Come back in an hour and voila! Preserved for all time until you can find a shredder!

[hlthe2b]

60. Off topic, but does anyone else see a bunch of "line" and "line line" encodings on this page?

[WyattKansas]

62. Apparently Donnie Dumbass didn't watch what happened to all the Saddam statues in Iraq and...

Other countries that had tyrants pissing on the people.

[hlthe2b]

63. Too arrogant and narcissistic to consider. Consequences? To other people, maybe.