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    We require the headline match the original, please correct it or we’ll have to remove it.

    But the answer is “time”.

    Look at the scale of the original project:

    “Commissioned by Congress in 1925, construction on Mount Rushmore began in the late 1920s under the direction of sculptor Gutzon Borglum. The National Park Service took over the project in 1933. It was completed in 1941.”

    16 years from approval to completion. Trump couldn’t even get a wall built before the next President abandoned it.

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      I imagine technology has changed enough in the last 80 years or so, to allow the work to be done much faster.

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        77 days ago

        From design to implementation, we’d still be talking about years. The chances of it happening before the end of his term are almost nonexistent just because of the logistics alone.

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        Surprisingly not by much, most of the improvements have been with portability not functionality, at least when it comes to stone working. Instead of steam we use electric for example so you don’t need to lug around steam canisters for a power drill. Scaffolding, blasting, drilling, and chiseling is still more or less the same since the 30s.

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    Ok but it would be kinda fitting. Each face represents a phase of America: birth, growth, preservation, and development. He’d just represent destruction.

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    37 days ago

    The shape of a rock is fairly insignificant compared to some of the things that are happening. Kidnappings? Assassinations?

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    He’s king. He can do anything he wants.

    It would actually be a hoot, to see the amateurish hack job some MAGA “artist” would do on the Incredible Bulk’s ugly ass face.

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    I’ve never been the type to advocate defacing national monuments, but there’s a first time for everything.