That would be consistent with all of the vandalism of national monuments they’ve done so far.
Mount Rushmore already is an act of vandalism.
Yeah, it’s also straight-up unfinished. They really just desecrated Indigenous land and didn’t even have the consistency in their shitty behaviour to carry it out completely.
The current Idiot-in-chief adding his likeness to it would be like pissing on a shit cake.
In the defense of the incompleteness it’s more a side effect of original plans being scrapped due to rock strengthen. Basically it was originally going to be grander but those plans were largely scrapped due to rock strength and the original crews just kinda getting sick of working on it.
Hard agree. I hope it topples over when they try. That mountain is supposed to be sacred.
The addition of a bleeding asshole spewing shit would be a fine tribute to America.
Maybe a large log swing goes in and out of it for people’s entertainment? Nah, too much cleaning.
This means it’s time to take down all those faces, restore the Six Grandfathers, and give it back to the Lakota Sioux.
If anyone wants Rushmore back, make it out of concrete by a population center.
This has already been looked into, because he said he wanted to be on Mount Rushmore during his first term, and a bill was introduced last year to add him.
No matter how much he may want it, it’s not possible; there’s not enough rock left on the mountain, and what’s there is too fragile to support it.
The New York Times actually had a good article last year with 3D visualizations showing exactly why it can’t happen: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/mount-rushmore-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.N4J6.i9vauCc4EdSZ
So at least there’s that.
As if facts would stop the regime. I bet there’s some sort of a pool guy (and, purely coincidentally, Republican donor) that can pour that mug in concrete and nail it to the rock.
I hope you’re not too attached to that monument - once everything collapses, there will be a sabotage/terrorism spinjob and they’ll start searching for a new rock face in which to carve Trump, Trump, Trump and Trump.
I hope they try and then end up ruining the disgusting disgrace of a stolen Sioux mountain. This country is so gross.
“Too small, too thin, too fragile” - so… perfect for a Trump sculpture doomed to collapse before it’s completed…
If they do somebody has to sculpt his tiny hands life sized under the orange rapists head
that was actually cool
NYT has some pretty good infographics sometimes.
I would absolutely not call this “cool” though. Sickening maybe.
ah, yeah, by “cool” I meant the technical side of the website, not the subject of content itself
You’re a fucking fool if you think that would stop them from trying.
Oh, they absolutely might still try. And if they do, they’ll probably irreversibly destroy some or all of the existing monument, which seems fitting for this administration.
But at least it doesn’t seem possible that we’ll ever end up with Trump’s head up there, no matter how much he might want it, and it does make me a little happy to know that he can’t get everything he wants.
The existence of mount rushmore is already a disgrace as it is
Do it. At least destroying that abomination would be the end result.
It really does look fucking stupid when you really think about it.
One day it’s degradation will be a symbol all its own. Perhaps future generations will try to slow it’s degradation, perhaps we will add face after face.
But that mountain won’t care a bit. And one day nobody will know the difference.
Better if he was yeeted off of it.
Current White House says a lot of stupid shit… and does even more.
Edit: if the addition of the pedophile is to symbolize everything that went wrong with America from beginning to end then, yes I’d have to agree with the White House I suppose.
More distractions while he and his brood steal billions and billions, and remove any means of prosecution for crimes, past, present, and future.
Remember the SCOTUS is giving too much power to a President. Precdent has been set, so let’s vote for the next President that will use executive orders with as much abandon as ever, to claw back those billions. What we forget is that Trump is singular with his cutthroat aporach to thuggish-gangsta style “leadership” due to WHO taught him how to act: Roy Cohn, who is now dead and no one can replicate. JD Vance will be eaten alive by the Senate, and the Mitch McConnells are tottering on their graves and “capitalism” has become so toxic to families in it’s late (or end-) stage form, that social problems won’t be fixed by it, leading to political ones. Mamdani isn’t an outlier… he’s the slowly arriving future.
I sure hope so. My wish is that they curtail presidential powers to an almost ceremonial level. No immunity, no pardons, no executive orders. While in office and direct or indirect income other than the presidential salary should be relinquished and full public availability of tax and business records will be a requirement.
I think that no government worker should be making anymore money than the minimum wage. Watch the minimum wage suddenly become liveable then.
No elected government worker… I’m not down with bridge and safety inspectors or air traffic controllers making minimum wage, no matter how “just” it seems - for a millisecond. Let the judges and elected officials have the minimum wage - WTF, it’s not like they’re not already millionaires by the time they get into office.
Agreed
Do you want the minimum wage to rise or not? Some regular people will need to suffer.
Leaving the unelected out of it, won’t solve the problem.
It’ll just get latched onto by the right as the perfect solution to downsize the government even more as the average government workers quit to find better paying jobs. (AI be heavily pushed by the tech bros to fill in a ton of the clerical work slots that open up.) The American public will grumbe, sigh then resign themselves to the new reality as the pivot happens. The TV propagandists wil spin it into savings for the taxpayer and the government will throw a couple hundred bucks back to each family for a year or two to pacify them.
Then everything shuts down as the emboldened billinairs fund the political machine to suit them and their agandas - abd they’ll be barefaced about it like the public has never seen.
Secondly, do we miss that most politicians are millionaires by the time they get into office?
They, more than most, will be able to buy whatever services they need to run their politicial affaris and get all the cash they need fron the ultra wealthy…
It’s actually the elected that need to be the first people to be pinched by minimum wage incomes. Hard.
I don’t give a fuck about precedent, laws, or any bullshit people come up with to fuck us in the ass “legally”. I want swift harsh justice to be served on everyone in the federal government. At this point, they all need jail for not putting the fucking traitor in jail.
Gotta get the cockroaches out of the cabinets before you start in on cleaning the house.
That is going to be the tough part, 'cos you know there will be a fuckton of pre-emptive “pardons” being given out at the end of Trumplestiltskin’s term…
States may have to step up…
Thing is, this has been a right wing plan for the last 46 years, so let’s not fool ourselves that any solution is going to happen overnight.
It’s going to be a bitch to pry those right wing termites out of the woodwork they’ve tunneled themselves into.
I’ve been hoping for something like this for my whole sad ass 40 year old life. Reagan fucked everything up for my entire life. I have never been happy, safe or had any security, EVER
These aren’t distractions.
For one thing, he’s not that clever. There’s no plan to distract you. You’re giving him far too much credit.
For another, he really is this this big an idiot. He’s blundering through the government like a big fat toddler, just breaking shit at random. Stop making it sound like he’s a mastermind. What he’s doing is more dangerous than a plan, because nobody has defenses against this.
If he’s stupid what the fuck does that make the rest of us for allowing this? We voted in the guy that was supposed to prosecute and put him in jail… and they did everything but actually punish him!
Then that asshole wore a Trump hat right before the election.
So if he’s stupid, so are we. And worse, because we let him.
Others in this administration are not stupid. Trump is not the one masterminding plans. He does whatever the last or loudest person in his ear tells him to do.
Also, it’s very important not to underestimate the power of stupidity and incompetence to fuck society.
Seriously, read this short article and tell me you can’t easily supplant trump’s name everywhere and it’s not uncanny:
Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show.
Plenty of first-person sources in the book.
Even if trump dropped dead today, this fascist movement wouldn’t stop. He’s a carnival barker and a genuine moron, chosen because he’s a social wrecking ball. But don’t mistake his blundering for 3d chess.
Comic book villain
I will find a way to acquire a rocket launcher and shoot it at that fucking thing if that happens.
Honestly I’m pretty sure physics would do that for you if he tried; the initial plan for that thing included more presidents but the rock was deemed too unstable. And that was with, y’know, actual competent engineers, not whoever the fuck Rapey the Clown would hire for the project.
My dream would be that it’s done, then a week later the rock lets go and it slides off like The Old Man of the Mountain did in New Hampshire. It can be the Trump National Rubble Pile.
FWIW,
Borglum chose Mount Rushmore in part because it faces southeast for maximum sun exposure. The carving was the idea of Doane Robinson, South Dakota’s state historian. Robinson originally wanted the sculpture to feature American West heroes, such as Lewis and Clark, their expedition guide Sacagawea, Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud,[11] Buffalo Bill Cody,[12] and Oglala Lakota chief Crazy Horse.[13] Borglum, arguing that the sculpture should be national in scope rather than regional, convinced them to choose the four presidents instead.
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The sculpture at Mount Rushmore was built on land that was taken from the Sioux Nation in the 1870s.[16] The Sioux continue to demand return of the land, and in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians that the taking of the Black Hills required just compensation and awarded the tribe $102 million. The Sioux have refused the money, and demand the return of the land. This conflict continues, leading some critics of the monument to refer to it as a “Shrine of Hypocrisy”.[17]
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The peak that would later be known as Mount Rushmore is situated in the Black Hills, which has been inhabited by numerous indigenous groups over the centuries. The Ponca, Arikara, and Mandan were among the earliest recorded inhabitants, and were later displaced by the Kiowa, Plains Apache, and Shoshone. By 1800 those groups were supplanted by the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota Sioux, with the Lakota becoming the majority in the area by 1850.[18][19]
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Proposals to add additional faces
In 1937, when the sculpture was not yet complete, a bill in Congress supporting the addition of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony failed. When the sculpture was completed in 1941, the sculptors said that the remaining rock was not suitable for additional carvings. This stance was shared by RESPEC, an engineering firm charged with monitoring the stability of the rock in 1989. Proposals of additional sculptures include John F. Kennedy after his assassination in 1963, and Ronald Reagan in 1985 and 1999 – the latter proposal receiving a debate in Congress at the time.[120] Barack Obama was asked about his own potential addition in 2008 and he joked that his ears were too large.[121]
Donald Trump has expressed interest in his own addition to the mountain. During a 2017 rally in Ohio, Trump said, “I’d ask whether or not you some day think I will be on Mount Rushmore … If I did it joking, totally joking, having fun, the fake news media will say, ‘He believes he should be on Mount Rushmore.’ So I won’t say it.”[122] South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem described the potential addition as Trump’s “dream” in 2018.[123] On January 28, 2025, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) introduced a bill, H.R. 792, in the House of Representatives to add Trump’s likeness to the monument.[124]
Goddamnit! Sorry my family got involved folks. (Bill Cody is a second cousin, thrice removed. Or he was the second cousin of my great grandmother)
Those of us Europeans with long term roots in this continent, we have speckled history.
Really though, we have nothing to apologize for… We weren’t involved and for many, any familial benefits realized are long gone.
My own ancestors came off the Mayflower, and all but eradicated the Pequot tribe in Connecticut decades later.
The history is pretty ugly and for sure there was lots of hypocrisy, lies and theft.
No romanticizing my ancestral past… It’s not like I had anything to do with it and thankfully those people are dead and their wretched worldwiews went with them.
Yaah, they were assholes. Sucks that it happened.
A 10-story lafufu would be a better addition than Trump’s bloated pedo face.
You know what? Why the fuck not?
Why not add a rapist criminal conman who is actively destroying society to the most egregious symbol of cultural and societal destruction that is the project that took a sacred location and desecrated it as a monument to elite white male colonialism and the seizing of culture?
Seems fitting to me.
Maybe on a pike
