Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore? Sounds like a good idea, he says
- Trump denies report that a White House official inquired about adding a carving of another president to Mount Rushmore
- However, Trump said it ‘sounds like a good idea’ based ‘on all of the many things accomplished’
US President Donald Trump has said that adding his face to Mount Rushmore “sounds like a good idea” based on what he’s accomplished in his first term in office.
The president made the comment on Twitter, when he also denied a Saturday New York Times report that a Trump administration official had asked about adding presidents to the national monument last year.
The report also said that Trump was presented with a miniature Mount Rushmore with his face added to it by the governor of South Dakota when he held a Fourth of July celebration at the monument this year.
Retweeting a CNN story about the Times report, Trump wrote: “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!”
Trump also tweeted a picture of himself in front of the national monument from his Fourth of July celebration there this year.