His face would be added to those of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Adding Donald Trump 's face to Mount Rushmore alongside those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln is the goal of a bill introduced by Florida Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna . "Let's start carving it," she wrote in a post on X, arguing that "the extraordinary achievements of our country and the success he will continue to achieve deserve the highest recognition and honor on this iconic national monument."
The proposal recalls the one hypothesized this week by Fox News commentators, according to which the faces of the forty-fifth and forty-seventh presidents should be added to the monument in South Dakota in 2026 , on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence .
In 2019, Trump himself had floated the idea of adding his face to the monument, which he said he had "a lot of respect for." The opposition of local Native Americans, who were already against the monument itself because it was considered a symbol of white supremacy and structural racism, is taken for granted. In 2020, on the occasion of the Independence Day celebrations, then-President Trump had visited the monument, raising the ire of the local indigenous population.
“It’s an injustice to actively steal the land of indigenous people and then carve the white faces of conquerors who committed genocide,” Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and president of the local activist organization Ndn Collective , told The Associated Press . If approved by Congress, Trump’s addition to Mount Rushmore would fall under the responsibility of the Interior Department (which manages the preservation of state-owned lands, parks and historic sites).
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