It's one elite club the vainglorious Trump will never be able to join
It’s one elite club the vainglorious Trump will never be able to join. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Back in 2018, then South Dakota Republican representative Kristi Noem recounted how when she met President Trump for the first time in the Oval Office in 2017, he told her that it was his dream for his face end up on Mount Rushmore.
When the president later brought up the idea again at one of his rallies that same year, he claimed he was joking, then complained that the media would report that he said he thinks he should be on Mount Rushmore. It should come as no surprise that it now seems clear that Trump really does think that.
Then, when Trump traveled to South Dakota to celebrate the July 4 holiday and give a divisive speech at Mount Rushmore, Noem — who has been getting advice from former 2016 Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — tried to grant the president’s wish, at least in miniature: Sadly for Trump, one of the reasons Noem originally laughed at his dream in the Oval Office, and laughed about it again as she recounted the story a year late, is that most South Dakotans already know that adding another face to the monument is not physically possible — as the Argus Leader pointed out when writing up Noem’s funny Trump tale:
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