Ivanka Trump Reignites Trump Mount Rushmore Debate With Picture

KEY POINTS

Ivanka Trump provoked an uproar by tweeting out an image implying that Donald Trump should be added to Mount Rushmore
Trump has pushed to have his face added to the monument in the past
The odds of it actually happening are very low

Ivanka Trump sparked ridicule after tweeting a photo of Donald Trump in front of Mount Rushmore, suggesting that he should be added to the monument. Twitter users scoffed at the suggestion that Trump should join the ranks of U.S. presidential legends, noting mounting COVID-19 fatalities and his failure to ever win the popular vote.

Amazing photo of @realDonaldTrump during his visit to Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020 (📷 AP /Alex Brandon) pic.twitter.com/indAz62v6B
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) December 7, 2020

The photo comes from an Independence Day 2020 visit that former park officials said risked fires, defacement, and death due to fireworks and large crowds during the ongoing pandemic. The perspective of the photo reignited old campaigns to have Trump added to the monument.

Trump’s critics derided the photo, reminding Ivanka of the various undignified images Trump has generated with dictators and criminals.

He will be remembered for pictures with Epstein & Maxwell. Bending the knee to Putin. Curtsying to the King of Saudi Arabia. Saluting a North Korean general. Waving like the dementia patient he is from the limo.
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) December 7, 2020

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.

4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a multiyear probe.

289,430 died thanks to Trump’s malevolence: They cheer, deny his election defeat, and want to add him to Mount Rushmore.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) December 7, 2020

Others recalled a more recent photo that barnstormed Twitter when Trump posed alone with a tiny desk typically reserved for large group photos.

This is how I will always remember your horrible father. pic.twitter.com/NkF9UdTrQk
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) December 7, 2020

One widely reposted image photoshopped Trump’s face onto the monument but replaced the other faces with those of prominent men accused of sexual assault, a reference to the numerous accusations against Trump.

As it stands, Donald Trump will just have to satisfy himself with his own dreams of his face appearing on Mount Rushmore. Even with staunch ally Kristi Noem leading South Dakota, it’s very unlikely that Trump could garner such a large public works project on a federally controlled monument.

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