Some persons are beginning to take President Trump for granite.
A Republican congresswoman is looking for the brand new commander in chief to be carved into the historic Mount Rushmore alongside fellow presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt.
Florida Freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna echoed calls from conservatives and claims she will likely be introducing laws to set it in stone.
The patriotic renovation was first proposed by former Trump marketing campaign supervisor and controversial conservative pundit Corey Lewandowski on the “Benny Johnson Show.”
“Some really smart congressman should go and say, ‘Donald Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore.,’” Lewandowski stated to host Benny Johnson in a clip posted to X on Friday.
“What are we waiting on? Donald Trump’s face should be on Mount Rushmore. We got the votes in the house. We got the votes in the senate. I know a guy whose gonna sign it named Donald John Trump,” Lewandowski added to a smirking Johnson.
“Let’s get it done to memorialize what this man’s been able to achieve for this country,” the previous chief of workers concluded.
The decision for the splashy political transfer caught the eye of Luna.
“I’m actually filing the legislation as we speak,” Florida’s first Mexican-American congresswoman wrote on X on Friday.
Mount Rushmore, residing in South Dakota, is an impressive feat of American craftsmanship that shows 4 of probably the most consequential presidents in United States historical past — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
Development on the “Shrine of Democracy” started in 1927 and the large monument was accomplished in 1941.
Conservatives are using the wave of renaming nationwide monuments and geographic places.
President Trump introduced that he will likely be altering the title of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America’.
The state of Florida is already on board with that title change — referring to the physique of water as “The Gulf of America” in a winter storm warning this week.
Trump has additionally reverted the title of a mountain in Alaska to “Mount McKinley” by means of govt order.
The mountain was named after President William McKinley in 1896 however was renamed Mount Denali throughout the Obama administration in 2015.
Congresswoman Luna’s workplace didn’t reply to The Put up’s request for remark.
