Trump unveils Mount Rushmore golden replica featuring his face

WASHINGTON, DC: Donald Trump's ambition to join the faces of Mount Rushmore may remain out of reach in stone, but in his latest reveal, he has carved out a place for himself nonetheless.

The 80-year-old President recently shared a scaled-down golden replica of the storied national monument featuring his face alongside four former Presidents.

Trump shares Mt. Rushmore golden replica

As Donald Trump traveled to Mount Rushmore to address a rally marking America's 250th anniversary celebrations, the president took to Truth Social on Friday, July 3, to share a video titled "Art of Vision."

The video featured a mock-up of Mount Rushmore with Trump's face added alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln as a fifth presidential carving.

The president has openly mused about adding his likeness to the storied national monument. He’s brought it up jokingly at campaign rallies, posted hints on social media, and called it a “good idea.”

He even raised the possibility with South Dakota’s governor during his first term, saying to then-Gov. Kristi Noem during an Oval Office meeting: “Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?”

“I started laughing,” Noem recalled in a 2018 interview. “He wasn’t laughing, so he was totally serious. … I said, ‘Come pick out a mountain.’”

However, Trump’s long-lived dream might never come true as Mount Rushmore National Memorial chief of interpretation and education Maureen McGee-Ballinger told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that it was not possible to add a fifth president to the monument.

"The rock that surrounds the sculpted faces is not suitable for additional carving. When Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, died in 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum closed down the project and stated that no more carvable rock existed." McGee-Ballinger, whose office is part of the National Park Service.

Trump warns of Communist ‘enemy’ in Mount Rushmore speech

Trump issued a “fierce rebuke” of communism as part of his Independence Day kickoff speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday.

Trump declared that "such doctrines can be given no quarter," in what appeared to be a thinly veiled warning aimed at a small group of rising Democratic candidates aligned with democratic socialist and progressive movements.

“As we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack,” Trump warned.

“There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success,” he continued.

“Communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world, never works, it’s the enemy of the Constitution, above all, it’s the enemy of July 4, 1776 – it is the enemy indeed.”

Trump's remarks came in the wake of primary victories by at least four Democratic candidates aligned with democratic socialist or progressive movements. Seizing on the results, Trump and fellow Republicans argued that the party's rising left wing now represents the true direction of the Democratic Party—and poses a threat to the country's future.