Fascist despots often have large egos to compensate for their inferiority complexes, mental or otherwise, and our “fucking moron” in the White House, Trump 2.0, is no exception: He believes, or at least claims, that he’s the greatest POTUS ever (he’s the worst!), has the greatest administration (they’re all incompetent!), and will get the Nobel Peace Prize for something if those evil libs would just allow it.
For Narcissus le Grand, gold toilets and golf clubs with expensive membership fees where one can mingle with the rich and famous (and infamous, like Epstein) weren’t enough for that old fascist. He criticizes the Fed for pursuing a long-needed refurbishing of its buildings (and tries to inflate the price tag to make Powell look bad…but fails: the Fed chairman basically spit in Trump’s face and pointed out Trump’s “creative accounting,” otherwise known as an orange-faced not a bald-faced lie). Then he turns around and announces plans for a very expensive addition to the White House, a costly, large ballroom modeled after the one in Mar-a-Lago but reminding me more of Versailles. (Remember what happened to Louis XVI? If that French king’s fate also becomes this fascist twit’s, our democracy just might survive him! Maybe Macron should take back Lady Liberty and send us Madame Guillotine?)
Considering this tendency for fascist despots to have extra-large egos, it’s no wonder that Narcissus le Grand wants to be immortalized on Mt. Rushmore. The heads of state already there are there only because the sculptor wanted to immortalize them—I suppose they only had to provide a weak blessing, if any, and were most likely embarrassed by the honor (if they were alive at the time, with the exception of Teddy, that inglorious prat who’d most likely have bragged about it).
There are several problems associated with putting the likeness of that “fucking moron” on that mountain, of course. First, Congress might have to approve the project and provide funds for it because it’s a national park that hasn’t yet been given to the drilling and mining companies. Second, the rock there isn’t orange to match POTUS’s old skin, and how do you sculpt that three-ply hair overlay he uses to cover his balding head? Finally (please send more reasons if you can!), we have the problem of #47’s oversized head itself that houses that very unstable pea brain: To truly depict the fellow’s huge ego, you need at least twice the space allotted to Teddy’s head.
Cost will be no problem, of course. Trump has stolen so much from American taxpayers with his many tariffs and never worries about the national debt that even if it and/or that ballroom wiped out all of NASA’s budget, it wouldn’t matter to him and the other fascists in charge of the government now. Trump would just get rid of NASA and a few other agencies to pay for everything!
When not firing people who do an honest job (the latest casualty occurring because the dufus claimed she released false stats, i.e. ones he didn’t like), Trump’s irrational and badly conceived plans for the US are all too often designed to inflate his ego (remember his raining on the US Army’s parade?) as well as to celebrate and solidify the fascists’ plans for America’s future that will most certainly include all the ostentatious trappings of oligarchic Russia. This should be no surprise even to his fascist MAGA followers if they’re not brainless zombies. Saving the taxpayers’ money was never and is never the fascists’ goal; the goal is to spend it all on more costly and ridiculously absurd and useless projects.
If you fail to understand this, then you’re part of the problem!