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Fox News Panel Raves Over ‘Epic’ Idea of Adding Trump to Mount Rushmore

The panel’s only opposition to the idea came from Emily Compagno—but not because she doesn’t think the president is deserving.

A Fox News panel gushed at the idea of Donald Trump being added to Mt. Rushmore just a week into his second term.

The topic, which has again been floated in conservative circles in recent days, was praised as an “epic” idea by the panel of Outnumbered on Monday afternoon.

The former Republican lawmaker Jason Chaffetz was among those in favor.

“Hey, if there’s room up there I think it’d be great,” he said. “I think what Donald Trump has done—and is in the process of doing—is transforming the United States of America and putting America first. And I think America loves it, and I think there’s a great case for it.”

Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany agreed.

“I’m fascinated by this because that would be some sweet irony after President Joe Biden stopped the fireworks display from Mount Rushmore. So if you did like the 250th anniversary of the country at Mount Rushmore with President Trump’s face, it would be epic,” she said.

McEnany indicated Trump should not stop at having his face chiseled next to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She wants Dulles International Airport—serving the nation’s capital out of Virginia—to be named after him, too.

“So you have Trump and you have Reagan in DCA,” she said, referring to the name of Washington’s other airport. “Wouldn’t that be something special for the swamp?”

The only commentator who opposed Trump’s face being emblazoned on Mt. Rushmore was Emily Compagno, who said she outright disagrees with the practice in general.

“I hate that we chiseled humans’ faces into the mountains,” she said.

Compagno said she would rather see Trump’s face on some sort of currency. She also indicated she would be in favor of the DC area’s largest airport being named after Trump instead of John Foster Dulles, an influential Secretary of State in the Cold War.

Lisa Boothe chimed into to make it three on the panel in favor of a hypothetical Donald Trump International Airport.

“I do fully support changing Dulles airport after President Trump,” she said. “It also makes a lot of sense because you have Reagan here in D.C. with DCA, and there’s a lot of parallels between the two presidents of inheriting terrible economies, instability around the world, and then building off of that, fixing those problems, and then going on to tons of success.”

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was not named as such until 1998, nearly a decade after the Republican president left office. Still, some in the MAGA world are intent on having the 78-year-old Trump honored while he’s still president.

Count Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, among that crowd. She claimed in a post to X on Friday she was “actually filing legislation as we speak” about getting Trump added to Mt. Rushmore.

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