WH Asked GOP South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem About The Process For Having Trump Added To Mt. Rushmore

The New York Times reports:

Since the first days after she was elected governor of South Dakota in 2018, Kristi Noem had been working to ensure that President Trump would come to Mount Rushmore for a fireworks-filled July 4 extravaganza.

After all, the president had told her in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on the monument. And last year, a White House 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?

So last month, when the president arrived in the Black Hills for the star-spangled spectacle he had pined for, Ms. Noem made the most of it. Ms. Noem greeted him with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included a fifth presidential likeness: his.

Read the full article. Good grief.

The president told Governor Noem that he aspired to have his image etched on Mt. Rushmore.

Last year, a White House aide reached out to her office to ask what the process is to add additional presidents to Mt. Rushmore@maggieNYT @jmartNYT report https://t.co/GzJf0zvtdD

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