Trump’s Mount Rushmore dream hits a rock-hard limit
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Trump is set to speak beneath Mount Rushmore for the 250th independence celebration, but geologists say there’s no room on the granite to add a fifth face, making any presidential carving impossible, despite past flirtations and symbolic gestures like a model of Trump and a stalled congressional bill.
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