An entirely circular public relations stunt aided by the NY Times. Trump wasn’t accountable because one of his minions approached the South Dakota government with the flackery of Trumpist followers and the pretensions of Grover Norquist for Reagan’s head. Even though Trump has been informally yakking about it since taking office the Trump White House still has notional understandings of how governments work.

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This is Fake News by the failing @nytimes & bad ratings @CNN. Never suggested it although, based on all of the many things accomplished during the first 3 1/2 years, perhaps more than any other Presidency, sounds like a good idea to me! https://t.co/EHrA9yUsAw

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2020

But after President Trump was sworn in, he relayed his dream of actually being carved on the mountain, according to South Dakota Rep. Kristi Noem. (2018)

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Last yr, a WH aide “reached out to the governor’s office with a question, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation: What’s the process to add additional presidents to Mount Rushmore?”

⁦(via ⁦@jmartNYT⁩ ⁦@maggieNYT⁩) https://t.co/BGZwW3UCj6

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) August 8, 2020

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Trump has been talking to Noem for 3 years about being added to Rushmore. Check her recounting in video below – she at first assumed he was joking.

But WH staff know better & last ya asked Noem folks about process for adding to the monumenthttps://t.co/omPrYtOXTC

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) August 8, 2020

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Last year, before Trump’s July 4th fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore, a White House aide reportedly contacted South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s office to inquire about the steps that need to be taken to add more presidents to the national memorial. https://t.co/GDCZNxi3S3

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 10, 2020

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