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Florida Republican Introduces Bill to Make Addition to Mount Rushmore

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) introduced a bill Tuesday to add President Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore.

“His remarkable accomplishments for our country and the success he will continue to deliver deserve the highest recognition and honor on this iconic national monument,” Luna wrote on X.

“Let’s get carving!”

The Interior Department would oversee the project if Congress gives the green light.

“Mount Rushmore, a timeless symbol of our nation’s freedom and strength, deserves to reflect his towering legacy—a legacy further solidified by the powerful start to his second term,” Luna stated.

“He will be forever remembered among the great like Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.”

Luna isn’t the first to suggest it. Fox News contributors recently floated the idea to mark the country’s 250th anniversary in 2026.

“If you did, like, the 250th anniversary of the country at Mount Rushmore with President Trump’s face, it would be epic,” Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s former press secretary, said on Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered.”

Trump didn’t dismiss the idea in 2019. But he knew backing it could bring backlash.

“If I answer that question, ‘Yes,’ I will end up with such bad publicity,” Trump told The Hill.

In a 2020 speech before the Fourth of July, he defended the monument. Some wanted Confederate statues removed at the time.

“This monument will never be desecrated. These heroes will never be disgraced. Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten,” he said.

“And Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and our freedom.”

But Native American tribes have long opposed the monument, calling it stolen land.

“Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and president of NDN Collective, told The Associated Press.

“It’s an injustice to actively steal Indigenous people’s land then carve the white faces of the conquerors who committed genocide.”

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