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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone else wonder if Trump will have his face projected onto Mount Rushmore tonight?
He'd need the approval of his Interior Department, but I doubt he'd have trouble getting that.
Personally, I'd consider it desecration.
There are good reasons for projecting other faces onto Mount Rushmore, like the one described in this Washington Post article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/05/19th-amendment-anniversary-celebration-will-put-women-mount-rushmore-temporarily/
Korp, an entertainment industry veteran, said she wanted to create some type of visual mosaic to honor the anniversary this August, prompting her friend to joke that Korp, a South Dakota native, should put images of women on the facade of Mount Rushmore in her home state. Korp took it seriously.
In late August and early September, Korps project, Look Up to Her, will become one of a number of ways the Womens Suffrage Centennial Commission will mark the anniversary, along with a commemorative coin and medal produced by the U.S. Mint and a virtual event at the Kennedy Center. Shell project the images of 14 female leaders of the suffrage and civil rights movements on Mount Rushmore, including women who never themselves got the right to vote.
For two weeks, Abigail Adams, Sojourner Truth, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Jeannette Rankin, Gladys Pyle, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Zitkala-Sa, Nellie Tayloe Ross and Rosa Parks will be projected in pairs flanking Mount Rushmores four presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in several-minute increments.
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But if Trump tries anything like this, I hope he gets even more pushback than he got for the photo op at the church a month ago.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)the hind end of a jackass in place of Trump.
ananda
(28,905 posts)It will be a disastrous photo op just like the one
at the church, and several others.
I was just about to post the exact same thing.
hlthe2b
(102,525 posts)GopherGal
(2,010 posts)especially compared to what I was thinking of: Melania's nudes
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Trump's Face = Desecration, dishonor and disrespect which stands in full contrast to at least the meaning and intent of Mt. Rushmore.
Tyrants do stunts like this and call their abuse and insults to a country heritage, etc. They attempt to equate themselves with words that have a shared meaning for people, yet act in opposite ways. It's a hijack.
Cyrano
(15,075 posts)Mt. Rushmore is one of America's "sacred" monuments. It would be like Trump projecting his face onto the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington monument.
We know that he's incredibly stupid, but trying to project his face alongside the presidents on Rushmore would crash through stupid, insane, and even dementia.
Trump may lose this November in the biggest landslide in history. Pulling a stunt like this would ensure that landslide becomes a reality. And hopefully, it will include the total ousting of the Republican Party.
global1
(25,296 posts)It didn't occur to me that one could project an image on the Mt.. But Trump being the showman and narcissist he is - all of a sudden it makes sense to me that he might do just that.
It would be a desecration of that monument. In my mind it would be equivalent to pulling down the statues around the country that now he's trying to protect.
It would also be the biggest mistake he could make in his campaigning for re-election.
It would seal the deal for his loss in November.
highplainsdem
(49,122 posts)global1
(25,296 posts)Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)with seeing his face splattered on the monument or any hard surface but that's just my slightly macabre fantasy.
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sop
(10,297 posts)2naSalit
(86,943 posts)A desecration on top of a desecration! How drumpian!
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)be positioned so that a White House photographer can perfectly line up his face to that of those on the monument, and we will see it over and over and over again.
highplainsdem
(49,122 posts)and I'm not sure how they'd manage that.
Tweet from CNN's Betsy Klein:
Link to tweet
Another tweet from her:
Link to tweet
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)Though I still think they won't let them stop them - perhaps a photo shoot prior - it's just too good of a shot to not try and get and I can almost hear Trump demanding it.
highplainsdem
(49,122 posts)Link to tweet
Editing to link to a thread from someone else about that photo. Judging by the replies, the photo is from the Washington Post.
Link to tweet
The Washington Post article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/07/04/trump-got-his-crowd-his-fireworks-peddled-his-fiction/
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)Asshole (not you).