White House says there'd be 'no better addition' to Mount Rushmore than Trump

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30. In case you had any doubt that Burgum was deeply unqualified for his position...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he “certainly” believes that there’s enough room on Mount Rushmore for President Trump’s face.

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Fact brief: Is it possible to add a fifth face to Mount Rushmore?
No.

Despite calls for presidents such as Reagan, Obama, Trump or others to be added as a fifth face onto Mount Rushmore, it’s not possible.

“There is no more carvable space up on the sculpture,” the landmark’s public information officer said in 2020, adding that it’s one of the most common questions park employees receive.

Then-U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem recalled President Trump telling her in his first term that it was his “dream” to be on Mount Rushmore. Noem said she started to laugh, assuming he was joking, but that he was “totally serious.”

Trump has made several references to being on Mount Rushmore over the years, including sharing in May an AI-generated image of himself on the mountain next to Lincoln.

Besides, the background of the sculpture is troubling to say the least.

Mount Rushmore's sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, held nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and deeply antisemitic views that are documented in his correspondence and writings.[111][112][113] Prior to his involvement with the Rushmore memorial, Borglum had been the original sculptor of the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia, a project backed and partially funded by the Ku Klux Klan.[112][113] Borglum was heavily involved with the Klan during this period; he befriended several of its national leaders, served on the organization's committees, and even mediated in factional disputes, though there is no documentary proof that he ever formally joined.[112] Historians have varied in their assessment of Borglum's involvement with the Klan. Howard and Audrey Shaff describe him as motivated less by racism than by opportunism and the need to maintain the financial backing of his Stone Mountain patron Samuel Venable, though also by an affinity for the Klan as an agrarian and populist movement.[114] John Taliaferro and Matthew Davis, by contrast, argue that his prejudices were preexisting and deeply held, with Taliaferro noting that his racist views only became more virulent through his affinity with the Klan.

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