NYT: White House reaches out to South Dakota governor over Trump’s addition to Mount Rushmore

08/09/2020 USA


According to a person known to the Times, Noem then greeted Trump when he arrived in the state for his Fourth of July at the monument with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that covered his face. .

Noem has remarked on Trump’s “dream” to have his face on Mount Rushmore, the image of the Coolidge era that has the 60-foot-high faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

According to a 2018 interview with Noem, the two struck up a conversation about the sculpture in the Oval Office during their first meeting, where they initially thought he was joking. “I started laughing,” she said. “He was not laughing, so he was completely serious.”

“He said, ‘Christ, come here. Shake my hand, and so I shook his hand, and I said,’ Bad President, you have to come to South Dakota sometimes. We have Mount Rushmore. ‘And he goes, “Do you know that it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?” “

Trump also booked with the idea of ​​joining Mount Rushmore in 2017 at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio.

During his fourth speech in July against supporters in South Dakota, Trump defended Mount Rushmore – whose activists and indigenous tribal leaders have long criticized his history and cause – saying it “will stand forever as an eternal tribute to us. ancestors, and for our freedom. “

“As we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens any blessing that our ancestors fought so hard for,” Trump warned.

A White House official told the New York Times that Mount Rushmore is a federal, not a state monument.

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