President Trump claimed that a recent New York Times report he had asked about adding his face to Mount Rushmore was “Fake News,” though he was not exactly against the idea.
The Times reported on Saturday that in 2019 an aide from the White House called the South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s office asked how a president could be added to the famous mountain sculpture. CNN later picked up the Times report, adding a reference to a 2018 Oval Office meeting, where, Noem said, Trump asked her directly about it.
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“This is Fake News by Failure @nytimes & bad reviews @CNN, “Trump tweeted Sunday night. “Never suggest it though, based on all the many things that have been done in the first 3 1/2 years, maybe more than any other Presidency, seems like a good idea to me!”
Name claimed, according to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, that she had encouraged Trump to visit South Dakota, and named Mount Rushmore, to which Trump replied that it was his “dream” to have his face there.
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“I started laughing,” said Noem, who was running for governor at the time. “He was not laughing, so he was completely serious.”
Trump appeared at Mount Rushmore on July 3 of this year as part of his Fourth of July celebrations in the Fourth of July celebrating American independence. Standing in front of the mountain, featuring images of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, he delivered a speech condemning the left and defending the founding fathers of the nation, as some Protestants after the death of George Floyd sought structures to throw down their honor.
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“This monument will never be desecrated,” Trump said of Mount Rushmore in his speech. “These heroes will never be evacuated. Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten. And Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our ancestors and our freedom.”
Fox News’ Gregg Re contributed to this report.
