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Donald Trump *actually* wants his face added to Mount Rushmore (Original Post) yuiyoshida Aug 2020 OP
If he wins he may order it nt doc03 Aug 2020 #1
Well, he could try . . . markpkessinger Aug 2020 #5
YOU know what he would do??? Is take down the Statue of Liberty yuiyoshida Aug 2020 #7
Build a stature of him, paint it gold, and bury it upside down at the base of Mount Rushmore. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2020 #2
nah, someone will just dig it up again ... yuiyoshida Aug 2020 #3
... RKP5637 Aug 2020 #10
melt it down before you bury it! yuiyoshida Aug 2020 #11
Everyone on Mt. Rushmore is dead. NurseJackie Aug 2020 #4
Talk about defacing a monument Ohioboy Aug 2020 #6
He would be a curse to South Dakota! No one wants to look @ an impeached "pres"! Illumination Aug 2020 #8
I'm in favor of Trump going on Mt. Rushmore, right at the very top tclambert Aug 2020 #9
Won't happen; if it did; it would be chiseled down in a sec then urinated on. magicguido Aug 2020 #12

markpkessinger

(8,395 posts)
5. Well, he could try . . .
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 04:03 PM
Aug 2020

. . . but it would undoubtedly be challenged in the courts, and I seriously doubt they would let him do it. The only place it could conceivably be done is to the right of George Washington, where the sculptor, Gutzon Borghum, had originally intended to place Thomas Jefferson, but found that the rock was too unstable to accommodate any sculpture.

The entire sculpture was created to mark America's sesquicentennial, so even if another face could be added, unless it were of a president who served during the country's first 150 years, it would be ineligible to be added in any case.

Don't spend time worrying about this, folks -- it is just another one of Trump's endless distractions!

See https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2020/06/26/south-dakota-mount-rushmore-national-memorial-national-park-service-can-add-face/3243967001/

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
7. YOU know what he would do??? Is take down the Statue of Liberty
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 05:24 PM
Aug 2020

And put his own fucking huge statue there... OWNING NEW YORK..well guess what.. That's never going to happen, he will end up in prison first.

Ohioboy

(3,240 posts)
6. Talk about defacing a monument
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 04:58 PM
Aug 2020

It would be like carving an actual asshole into the mountain. Put him in the back, down low. He can be the collective anus of the other presidents that deserve to be there.

tclambert

(11,085 posts)
9. I'm in favor of Trump going on Mt. Rushmore, right at the very top
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 06:05 PM
Aug 2020

and then jumping off. If the Secret Service is monitoring DU, let me assure them that I did not even THINK of writing "and then PUSHING HIM OFF!" PUSHING TRUMP OFF MT. RUSHMORE would be wrong and no one should make a hashtag of that or anything.

PUSHING TRUMP OFF MT. RUSHMORE would be so . . . what's the word I want? . . . horrible. That's it. Not wonderful. Not delightful. Not patriotic. Horrible. Yes, so horrible. Let's all just take a moment and meditate on how horrible that would be.

And let me assure Trump's personal Secret Service bodyguards that I am in no way advocating that they themselves PUSH TRUMP OFF A CLIFF. Again, that would technically be wrong, even though it would be easy to make it look like an accident.

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