President Trump on Sunday denied reports that the White House had contacted the governor of South Dakota about cutting his face in Mount Rushmore – but said adding his image to the historic monument “sounds like a good idea for my! “
“This is Fake News due to the failed @nytimes & bad reviews @CNN,” Trump fumbled in a Twitter in a post linked to the report.
“Nothing suggests it though, based on all the many things in the first 3 1/2 years, maybe more than another presidency, to me sounds like a good idea!”
The New York Times article, published Saturday, states that a rep from the White House came out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Name last year, questions about the process of adding Trump’s face to the nearly 80 – year – old monument.
The story, which was later picked up by CNN, also notes that Trump previously spoke to Noem about it himself during a meeting in the Oval Office.
While refusing the report, Trump on Sunday tweeted a picture of his face sitting in front of the mountain on top. It shows Trump blinking next to the 60-foot-tall bodies of President Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and George Washington.
The president first brought up the idea of adding himself to the mountain during a 2018 Oval Office meeting with Noem – where she initially thought he was joking, according to local outlet argusleader.com.
“I started laughing,” Noem said in the 2018 interview. “He was not laughing, so he was completely serious.”
She added, ‘He said,’ Christ, come here. Shake my hand, and so I shook his hand, and I said, ‘Mr. President, sometimes you should come to South Dakota. We have Mount Rushmore. “And he goes, ‘Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?’ ”
When Trump gave a speech at Mount Rushmore on July 4, Noem greeted him with a 4-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that covered his face, according to the New York Times.
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