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Trump, the Transitional President

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I looked at the 2025 official portrait of Donald Trump
and thought about Mount Rushmore
and how Borglum would have sculpted the rock
to include the transitional president
into the "Shrine of Democracy" of nation builders,
passing the torch from one generation to another.
“Donald Trump (1946–): 45th. & 47th. President: Rebirth of a Nation.”
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Notes:
Shrine of Democracy: "The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt." (Gutzon Borglum)

George Washington (1732–1799): 1st. President: Birth of the U.S.A.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826): 3rd. President: Expansion of the U.S.A. with the Louisiana purchase.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865): 16th. President: Preserver of the Union.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919): 26th. President: Development of the U.S.A.

Mount Rushmore: Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills, Keystone, South Dakota. Construction of the monument took place from 1927 to 1941 and is the work of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941). Mount Rushmore is named after Charles E. Rushmore (1857–1931), a New York City attorney who was sent out to this area in 1884 to check legal titles on properties for a mining company, and in 1885 the name Mount Rushmore came into local usage. In 1930 the United States Board of Geographic Names officially recognized the name. The Lakota called it Tunkasila Sakpe Paha, or Six Grandfathers Mountain (before it was renamed).

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