The Week<\/a> reports: Earlier this week, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) confirmed the Independence Day celebration would go forward. “We’re excited that this will be happening at Mount Rushmore,” Noem said, as reported by CNN. “We’ve been working on this for quite some time.” Trump had first floated the idea of holding “your first big fireworks display at Mount Rushmore” back in January, although firework shows have been held at the monument in the past only to be discontinued in 2009 over environmental concerns. Trump has waved off such worries by saying “what can burn? It’s stone.” … Trump has been obsessed with the South Dakota monument — which depicts former presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson — for quite some time. “I said, ‘Mr. President, you should come to South Dakota sometime, we have Mount Rushmore,’” Noem recalled in a 2018 interview. “And he goes, ‘Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?’ I started laughing. He wasn’t laughing, so he was totally serious.”<\/p>\n Back in 2017, Trump suggested during a rally that his face will one day be on the monument. <\/p>\n “I’d ask whether or not you think I will someday be on Mount Rushmore, but, no — here’s the problem: If I did it joking, totally joking, having fun, the fake-news media will say, ‘He believes he should be on Mount Rushmore!’ ” Trump said. “So I won’t say it, OK? I won’t say.”<\/p>\n Trump tells @dbongino<\/a> he still plans to visit Mount Rushmore after restoring fireworks show canceled for 11 years<\/p>\n “For environmental reasons you believe that one? It’s all stone … I got it approved so I’m going to go there on July 3, and they’re going to have the big fireworks”<\/p>\n — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Mount Rushmore is the site of massive genocide.<\/p>\n Erected on sacred land taken from the Lakota Sioux, where they were also massacred, Mount Rushmore is perhaps one of the most offensive and distasteful monuments in our nation.<\/p>\n Fitting for a Trump visit. t.co\/SQE154v99d<\/a><\/p>\n — Travis Akers (@travisakers) May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n $50 say Trump talks about how his face should be in Mount Rushmore.<\/p>\n — Kelly Oxford (@kellyaoxford) May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Top TRUMP surrogate suggests Trump will be added to Mount Rushmore, alongside WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, TEDDY ROOSEVELT & ABRAHAM LINCOLN —> t.co\/IbI3o1WTn1<\/a><\/p>\n — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n If Trump wins re-election he’s going to order his likeness carved into Mount Rushmore. Just wait.<\/p>\n — Chris (@4cchild) May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n The post Trump to Visit Mount Rushmore for Independence Day Fireworks Show<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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