Fox News Host Asks Most Bootlicking Question About Donald Trump Yet

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Fox News’ Will Cain on Tuesday floated the idea of President Donald Trump being immortalized on Mount Rushmore.

Cain, a vocal supporter of Trump, praised the president’s impact before asking the sycophantic question: “It is not partisan at this point to say, is this presidency not one that puts itself in company of those who’ve had their faces carved into mountains? At this point, is the presidency of Donald Trump on the level of Mount Rushmore?”

Cain later cut to a clip where he asked commentator Michael Malice if Trump had “put himself in position to be a Mount Rushmore-level president.”

“I contend that I think he’s one of the most consequential presidents of at least the last half century,” Cain argued.

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The host isn’t the first conservative to push the idea.

In January, just days after Trump returned to the White House, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) introduced a bill to add Trump’s likeness to the South Dakota monument, citing his “remarkable accomplishments” and claiming he would “continue to deliver success.”

Mount Rushmore currently features the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

National Park Service officials have previously said a lack of space and structural issues would put to rest any plans to carve Trump alongside them.

Trump himself, though, has long talked about the idea.

In 2017, he told supporters at a rally: “I’d ask whether or not you think I will someday be on Mount Rushmore. But no, here’s the problem: If I did it joking, totally joking, having fun, the fake news media will say, ‘He believes he should be on Mount Rushmore.’”

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