Whether or not it’s feasible, the fact remains that a couple of Trump’s most adoring congressional representatives want his face on Mount Rushmore, beside Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. And nobody loves the idea more than Trump.

Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, at the time running for South Dakota governor, recalled in a 2018 interview with a Coyote State newspaper that during her first meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, he told her it was his “dream” to be immortalized on the monument someday.

“I started laughing,” Noem, at the time a Republican member of Congress, told the Argus Leader. “He wasn’t laughing, so he was totally serious.”

Two reps, Andy Ogles and  Anna Paulina Luna, think it’s a great idea.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) urged Interior Secretary Doug Burgum this week to “explore the addition” of President Trump’s likeness to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, citing “the scale and scope of recent achievements,” including the president’s domestic policy megabill that Congress passed Thursday and his administration’s ongoing border security efforts.

“The legacy of Mount Rushmore cannot remain frozen in stone; it must evolve to reflect the full arc of American history, including its most recent and transformative chapter,” Ogles wrote in a post about his proposal on the social platform [twitter].

Between the grandiosity of the notion, and the aggrandizement of Trump, who claims to be better than Lincoln and Washington making the point that if anyone’s puss deserves to be on sacred Lakota Sioux tribal land, it’s his, Luna has introduced a bill to make it happen.

In addition to Ogles’s appeal to Burgum, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has proposed legislation that would direct the secretary of the Interior to “arrange for the carving” of Trump’s image on Mount Rushmore.

The bill hasn’t budged, but that doesn’t mean it won’t. If the House was willing to be beaten into submission to vote for a bill that was hated by Republicans, some for its cuts to Medicaid and others for its blowing up the deficit, just to appease Trump with a toutable win, no matter how bad the actual law may be, why not vote for something as spurious and nonsensical as this?

But here’s the rub. When John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum began carving faces in rock (1927), he selected the four presidents to represent democracy over the first 150 years of the nation. Should other presidents have been chosen? No, because it was Borglum’s choice and he chose who he chose. If you carved the faces, perhaps you would have chosen some other president, but you didn’t. Had Congress passed a law dictating what faces would be carved into rock rather than just funding the project, Congress could have had a say. But it didn’t. Borglum did the work and made the choices.

So if some guy like Borglum got to decide the first four, who decides whether any more faces should be added, and if so, whose?

At the moment, the notion of putting Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore seems as absurd as making chemtrails a felony. He may be loved or feared by his MAGA faithful, but he’s never enjoyed the favor of the public, That he was elected doesn’t suggest the majority of voters liked him or approved of him, but that they chose him over the alternative, making him the least worst choice.

Some day in the future, however, a reckoning will come for Trump as it does for all presidents. Is he another Abraham Lincoln or Millard Filmore? Or even worse, Warren G. Harding combined with Andrew Johnson? At present, it’s hard to imagine that Donald Trump won’t be vilified as one of, if not the, worst presidents ever. But that assessment suffers from two critical failings. First, that’s my assessment, and I am no fan of Trump, so it’s tainted by my bias no matter how well I believe he’s earned it.

Second, time must pass before a detached view of Trump’s presidency can be seen. I remember well when Ronald Reagan was elected, and those of us who voted blue thought he was some third-rate actor playing a role, being fed his lines by puppet masters who manipulated the doddering old fool to do their nefarious bidding. In retrospect, we were wrong.

Are we wrong about Trump? Is he not a vulgar, deceitful, vengeful, narcissistic ignoramus? Or maybe he’s all of those things, and still a president that time will prove better than people today can imagine, no matter how much grift is grabs for his services?

Maybe some day, it will come to pass that the creped face of Darth Cheeto will grace a mount somewhere, after whoever gets to decide such matters comes to the conclusion that Donald Trump wasn’t a miserable failure of a president, but a great one. But that time has not yet come. It may never come. Unless and until it does, neither his face nor name should grace anything, whether mount, coin or airport. Only time will tell.