Sign the petition: Trump's latest $200 million vanity project JOIN WITH OTHERS TO STOP THIS EXPENSIVE LUNACY!

 

TELL CONGRESS: Trump's new vanity project is a $200 million White House ballroom. He just cemented over the Rose Garden and pressured the Smithsonian to remove an exhibit about his two impeachments — a blatant move to control and rewrite history. And his loyalists are pushing to get his face on Mount Rushmore. Sign the petition: Oppose Trump's vanity projects and don't put Trump on Mount Rushmore!

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Trump is planning to build a $200 million White House ballroom.¹ It’s yet another ridiculous vanity project in the background of the administration’s ever-escalating authoritarianism.

After Trump cemented over the White House Rose Garden, and pressured the Smithsonian to remove an exhibit on his two impeachments,^2,3 it’s clear that he’s trying to put his MAGA stamp on the White House AND control history.

Trump’s sycophants in Congress are still pushing proposals to get his face on Mount Rushmore, currency, airports, and landmarks. It’s critical that our lawmakers stand against these insidious displays of Trump-worship.

Sign the petition: Keep Trump off of Mount Rushmore, currency, and other landmarks — stop Trump’s push to control history.

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Trump loyalist Rep. Andy Ogles recently urged the government to put Trump on Mount Rushmore. After saying the White House is ushering in “America’s Golden Age,” Ogles added, “it is essential that we immortalize President Trump’s likeness on Mount Rushmore.”⁴ He joined a wave of GOP efforts to get Trump’s name on the D.C. metro, Dulles airport, the Kennedy Center, and currency.⁵

Just two months ago, Trump put on a wasteful, grotesque military parade celebrating his birthday. Putting Trump’s own face on Mount Rushmore would be another act of a strongman.

The drive to put Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore is particularly disturbing because the monument is built in the Black Hills on unceded Lakota territory — deeply important land that the U.S. government stole from Native Americans.⁶ And the person who led the construction of Mount Rushmore had ties to the KKK.⁷

Sitting presidents don’t belong on money, monuments, airports, and landmarks — especially not Trump, whose administration continuously defies the rule of law and threatens our democracy.

Sign the petition: Reject all efforts to put Trump on Mount Rushmore!

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the Demand Progress team

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Sources:

1. Truthout, "Trump Plans to Build $200 Million White House Party Room,” August 1, 2025.
2. Axios, "The history behind Trump's newly paved Rose Garden,” August 4, 2025.
3. The New Republic, "The Trump Administration Is Literally Trying to Rewrite History,” August 1, 2025.
4. Newsweek, “Fresh Push To Add Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore: 'Essential',” July 4, 2025.
5. Newsweek, "Full List of GOP Bills to Put Trump's Name or Face on Things,” July 28, 2025.
6. Democracy Now, "'He Wasn’t Invited': How Trump’s Racist Mt. Rushmore Celebration Violated Indigenous Sovereignty,” July 6, 2025.
7. Ibid.

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