NYT: White House reached out to South Dakota governor about adding Trump to Mount Rushmore

[mobeau69]

White House aides reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last year about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, the New York Times reported.

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

Noem has noted before Trump's "dream" to have his face on Mount Rushmore, the Coolidge-era sculpture that features the 60-foot-tall 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 she initially thought he was joking. "I started laughing," she said. "He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/politics/mount-rushmore-trump-south-dakota/index.html

[Nexus2]

1. Wasn't there a clarification thread that said this was a false rumor?

[mobeau69]

2. Based on new NYT report. CNN just went with it.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Sounds false. What influence does a governor have over U.S. Park Service?

[tinrobot]

6. What knowledge does Trump have about how government works?

He's the one who did the asking.

[Mariana]

7. She doesn't, but do you expect Trump to know that? nt.

[captain queeg]

3. Who knows but I could certainly see trump thinking he deserved it.

He’s had to put up with so much, far worse than anyone else in history. I think maybe a super fund site could be named after him, one of those places they’ve been working on for 20 years.

[Nexus2]

5. That's thing, isn't it?

You can't automatically dismiss stories like this as false. The ass has already done things that sound like articles from The Onion and has the temperament to do more. I'm sure there's allot of Batshit insane stuff they've managed to keep on the down low (maybe as notes for another book).

[Ilsa]

8. The story may be false, but it is easy to believe it is true

based on trump's previous behavior and comments.