December 7, 2020, 2:03 pm
Ivanka Trump tweeted out a photo Monday showing Donald Trump smiling with the Six Grandfathers, better known to many U.S. residents as Mount Rushmore, in the background. The angle puts Trump’s head right next to Lincoln’s in the line of presidents that were carved into the sacred mountain against the wishes of the native Lakota Sioux.
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Needless to say, for multiple reasons, Trump critics did not find the image to be a positive one.
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“Amazing photo of @realDonaldTrump during his visit to Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020,” Ivanka wrote.
Donald Trump visited the site of the Six Grandfathers over the summer as part of his failed reelection campaign, angering many Native Americans who objected to a monument to white supremacy being visited by a monument to white supremacy.
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“Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” said Oglala Lakota tribe member and NDN Collective President Nick Tilsen. “It’s an injustice to actively steal Indigenous people’s land, then carve the white faces of the colonizers who committed genocide.”
Even among those who think the carvings of “Mount Rushmore” should exist, few who aren’t already avid Trump supporters seem to think his face should be up there with George Washington (who Trump personally dissed) and Abraham Lincoln.
“Going out on a limb here, but losing the popular vote twice, getting impeached, presiding over a devastating pandemic and being the worst president for job creation (since records have been kept) may be disqualifying factors,” wrote journalist and author Paul Brandus.
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Others have different ideas for Mount Rushmore or a similar monument, or for rock formations that could more appropriately represent Donald Trump and his legacy.
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*First Published: December 7, 2020, 2:03 pm
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