WASTING NO TIME

MAGA Demands Trump Be Immortalized on Famous Monument Where All Can See

“What are we waiting on?” Trump aide Corey Lewandowski said about adding the president to an existing monument.

A mere week into Trump 2.0 and MAGA nation is already pushing for President Donald Trump’s face to be added to Mount Rushmore.

The charge is being led by Trump aide Corey Lewandowski, who in a Friday appearance on a MAGA social media show raised the possibility as a more constitutional alternative to giving Trump a third term.

“Some really smart congressman should go and say, Donald Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore,” Lewandowski told Benny Johnson, host of The Benny Show.

“What are we waiting on?” he added. “We got the votes in the House. We got the votes in the Senate. I know a guy is gonna sign it, named Donald John Trump. Let’s get it done to memorialize what this man’s been able to achieve for this country.”

Lewandowksi’s remarks were co-signed in a flurry of comments on X by The Benny Show’s executive producer, Alex Lorusso, who shared the clip and wrote, “Which Member of Congress will do the honors?”

It only took six minutes before far-right Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, one of the president’s most ardent supporters in the House, informed Lorusso that she was already drawing up the paperwork.

“I’m actually filing the legislation as we speak,” she wrote.

If the scheme were to come to fruition, Trump would join George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln on the Mount Rushmore cliff face in South Dakota. The busts of the presidents’ heads, which were completed in 1941, are each around 60 feet tall.

It isn’t the first time Trump’s team has taken a stab at getting the twice-impeached president added to the iconic American landmark.

The New York Times reported in 2020 that Trump’s aides had reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem in 2019 to inquire about the process for adding another face to the monument.

In 2018, Noem, who is now Trump’s pick for secretary of homeland security, revealed that appearing on Mount Rushmore is one of the president’s dreams.

Trump allegedly told her during a meeting with him in the Oval Office.

“I started laughing,” she said. “He wasn’t laughing, so he was totally serious.”

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