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Pro-Trump Network Says Mount Rushmore Must ‘Make Room’ For Donald Trump (VIDEO)

According to Media Matters, Pro-Trump media outlet Sinclair Broadcast Group ran a segment across more than 50 stations in 28 states saying Donald Trump’s performance could earn him a place on Mount Rushmore.

The segment, which ran on Presidents Day, featured former Trump aide and Sinclair’s Chief Political Analyst Boris Epshteyn touting the commander-in-chief.

“Presidents Day is an important holiday for us to reflect upon those who we have elected to the highest office in our land. We are lucky to currently have a leader in President Trump, whose term so far has been, I would argue, one of the most successful in our nation’s history,” Epshteyn, who worked for the Trump White House and campaign, said in the segment.

“In just over two years of the Trump administration, we have seen great progress benefiting Americans. If this keeps up, much to the chagrin of many Democrats, the presidents on Mount Rushmore may have to make room for a new addition,” he continued.

And having his big face on Mount Rushmore is something that Trump really wants.

Kristi Noem, the Governor of South Dakota, said Trump views his own face going up on Mount Rushmore as no laughing matter.

Noem relayed a conversation she had with Trump during her first visit to the Oval Office soon after he took office in January 2017.

“He said, ‘Kristi, come on over here. Shake my hand,'” Noem said, according to an Argus Leader report. “I shook his hand, and I said, ‘Mr. President, you should come to South Dakota sometime. We have Mount Rushmore.’ And he goes, ‘Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?'”

Noem said that only one of them thought it was a joke. “I started laughing,” she said. “He wasn’t laughing, so he was totally serious.”

But don’t worry people…it’s not possible.

Maureen McGee-Ballinger, public information officer at Mount Rushmore, said it’s not possible to add Trump’s facial carving into Mount Rushmore to join George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

“There is no more carvable space up on the sculpture,” McGee-Ballinger told the Argus Leader. “When you are looking on the sculpture, it appears there might be some space on the left next to Washington or right next to Lincoln. You are either looking at the rock that is beyond the sculpture (on the right), which is an optical illusion, or on the left, that is not carvable.”

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