The overwhelming majority of likely U.S. voters, including a majority of black Americans, oppose the tearing down of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial featuring Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, a poll finds.
President Donald Trump will hold an Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore on Friday evening. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.
CNN described Mount Rushmore as a “monument of two slave owners” on “land wrestled [sic] away from Native Americans” ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit there on Friday. But in 2008, CNN marveled at the landmark when then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) visited Rushmore on the campaign trail.
Protesters have reportedly blocked the main road leading to Friday night’s Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore with disabled vehicles, lining up vans and standing in the road holding signs reading, “You Are On Stolen Land” and “Sacred Sites Over National Monuments. Give It Back.”
Friday on CNN’s “The Lead,” correspondent Leyla Santiago commented on President Donald Trump traveling to Mount Rushmore for an early Independence Day party and July Fourth fireworks display in front of the sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore
CNN joined the establishment media effort to “cancel” Mount Rushmore, lamenting the “dark history” of the sculpture and criticizing President Trump — who is set to deliver a speech at the historic landmark Friday night — for defending “racist monuments.”
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg on Friday addressed the planned protests at Mount Rushmore during President Donald Trump’s Independence Day event.
The New York Times has set its sights on Mount Rushmore as protesters demand the removal of historic monuments in the name of racial justice, citing its location on “Indigenous land,” the sculptor’s purported ties to white supremacy, and two of its subjects’ slave ownership.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” host Chris Cuomo argued that the planned early July 4 celebration at Mount Rushmore is not an “apples to apples” comparison to police brutality protests. Because the protests weren’t organized by official government entities and trying to enforce a mandatory mask rule during the protests, “would have been madness.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Monday previewed the upcoming Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore, saying that masks will be provided but will remain optional and that there will “not be social distancing.”
The Democrat Party tweeted, then deleted, an attack on Mount Rushmore, negatively portraying an upcoming event President Trump is planning ahead of Independence Day at the historic monument to four great American presidents.
President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Mount Rushmore on July 3 takes on new meaning as leftist mobs topple historical monuments across the country.
Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner is protesting President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota next week, saying the monument should be “removed” because it is on land claimed by Native Americans.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends” addressed the possibility of Mount Rushmore National Memorial becoming the next target of protesters as calls to remove statues and memorials of leaders with flawed pasts have increased.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Tuesday promised to defend Mount Rushmore from radical leftists, who have been demanding the removal of several historic monuments and statues across the nation and, in some cases, lawlessly destroying the structures themselves.
There is no way Mount Rushmore can survive the insurgency of left-wing domestic terrorism currently unfolding in our country.
President Donald Trump confirmed Friday in an interview that he still planned on visiting Mount Rushmore to attend the fireworks display for Independence Day.
Trump revealed plans to travel to Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day, bringing back a popular fireworks display for the occasion. “Mount Rushmore, we’re going over — I think I’m going to try and be there on July 4th.”
A group of climate change activists in Finland is raising money and scouting locations in the Arctic to carve an image of President Donald Trump Mount Rushmore-style, such that when it melts, it will give proof to the threat of global warming.
