Mount Rushmore Was Supposed to Look Very Different

[@MoreGrievances]

The fact a team of non-artists using jackhammers lead by one artist (Gutzon Borglum) built this 60 ft awe inspiring colossal structure in 14 years is beyond mind blowing.

[@ouncy]

14 years for an unfinished job with awkward placement? Yeah, mind blowing.

[@TheMryoungty1]

ouncy And yet the average person could never do it, so yes. Awe inspiring.

[@Garother]

And nobody mentioned that this was a sacred place of the natives. But Muricans once again didnt care and thought everything they see is theirs

[@TheOrac]

yawn

[@miriamarriaga241]

HEY THAT WAS WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAU

[@richnable]

Crazy how nature make that

[@sk8rgrrl1998]

Yay for artificialism

[@bridgetryder5352]

Cher, is that you?

[@eyelaces]

richnable LOL 4HEad

[@cobaltskyhammer9600]

*r/whoosh*

[@bridgetryder5352]

Cher, is that you?

[@axelayalajimenez5324]

2:39 look at Roosevelt's forehead it has a face on it

[@newwavepressure6478]

Its an alien 👽 face lol

[@nycuba7478]

No, it's Joseph Stalin

[@ronin9622]

Naruto just messing about again

[@siddharthsaka]

Axel Ayala I just see some eyes on his forehead.

[@angiehere5023]

Axel Ayala i also saw it I was like meh it might just be me

[@n.o.t.e.a6068]

The Hokages do look different tho.....

[@nocturnal7345]

I literally just had a thought about how the Hokage Rock looks like Mt. Rushmore lol.

[@Moepowerplant]

And the fourth one is a hashira with his own movie.

[@amiqai]

Now, just imagine how the ancient wall carvings and statues in Egypt and Mesopotamia and the cliff cities were made.

[@whatthehellisayoutube6010]

"Ancient astronaut theroists say yes"

[@johngalt8279]

Egyptian carvings weren't done on stolen land.

[@CEOofSleep]

@@johngalt8279 cope

[@firasajoury7813]

@@CEOofSleep how did you know though ?

[@mazed1078]

The aerials in this footage make Mt. Rushmore look so small and insignificant but when you are there it is quite magnificent and awe inspiring! There is a hiking trail that goes right under the faces and it makes you feel small!

[@Bluemoon2000x]

I actually think these carvings are so amazing

[@xtusvincit5230]

Little known fact, Mt Rushmore was virtually unknown to the public until the movie North by Northwest made it famous.

[@thomasfoytek7633]

It also seems very few have seen the pics of The "Six Grandfathers" mountain in 1927. It was magnificent! They should have shown it!

[@madxtermin8ter]

the hokages lol

[@beyondaercsx9457]

onegonzalezzz I’m ded

[@GianniGaeta]

Asupreme Rocket yea

[@Spider-ManE-616]

onegonzalezzz good one!

[@acraigdog565scarce6]

Kid: "Mom look!" Its Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen, and Minato!

[@taimurazam2438]

Hahahaha hashirama tobirama professor (I don't know his real name) and the one and only Minato namikaze the yellow flash

[@ryanedwards8035]

People used to have pride In our country. Not everything we did, but pride in our country.

[@EsotericOccultist]

@Ella Some people are loyal to the country they live in and aren't having an identity crisis where they're torn between two countries. Obviously you can't say the same.

[@tomlehr861]

@Ella say what?

[@tomlehr861]

@Zeek Banistor or a rabid trumpster cult member...

[@billeddy4357]

Ryan Edwards - I might be proud that I got a B+ in a difficult course , BUT , might still want a A +. I might be glad that I rushed for 100 yards in a game , but , was even happier when I got 140 yards . Many of the people who want significant change , are proud of the USA , but think that it can do better .

[@billeddy4357]

@@pbradics3670 The lies perpetuated by the south , after their terrible Civil War losses , through a fantasy called the "Lost Cause" , are believed by many , and still being taught in some circles . This is a huge failing for any education system ,and should be thoroughly cleansed from schools and from society. The Confederate monuments are part of that massive LIE . It is beyond the pale that 40,000,000 black Americans are expected to walk by statues of men who absolutely despised them , such as Jefferson Davis , Alexander Stephens , Robert E. Lee , Jubal Early , Braxton Braddock , Leonidas Polk and Nathan Bedford Forest . It would be like asking Jewish Americans to put up with statues of Adolph Eichmann , or to ask Ukrainians to celebrate Joseph Stalin . ( These men started a war to allow rich southern planters to stay rich .( see the Letters of Secession ) Then , when they lost , they made up a fairy tale to serve their needs .)

[@WannabeMarsanach]

It really doesn't look complete...

[@bassinblue]

It isn't complete. Look at a picture of the model of the mountain, before the faces were carved.

[@brettknoss486]

We carved the faces and Borglum's dead, time for us to go to bed.

[@saintjohnny1]

Aviator, Tribune of the Plebs you need to clean your bifocals ...

[@miriamarriaga241]

Your right

[@bridgetryder5352]

They should add Presidents FDR and Reagan.

[@ThatGuy678]

2:19 "Jefferson's revised image received its recognition" *deep voice* "IN NINETY THIRTY SIX"

[@rustydog1236]

The original plans were to have the figures bodies carved out to their waists (if you look, theres room) but the old man died and WWII came along and money ran out. If you visit there, you can see a huge wax model by Borglum as how it was supposed to look.

[@CalvinHikes]

So, it was designed, built and maintained as a tourist trap.

[@suzyaero]

Just like every monument around the globe. So?

[@Bildgesmythe]

Yes, on land stolen from Native Americans.

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

@@Bildgesmythe So? They stole land from other tribes. This isn't something new.

[@barrymafiztna55]

Bildgesmythe who stole the land from the previous inhabitants and so on and so forth....

[@monkeysuncle2816]

@@Bildgesmythe It's the Murican way. :(

[@naryanr]

I wonder how ol' Teddy feels about being constantly hidden in Lincoln's shadow.

[@GH-oi2jf]

N R - He’s dead.

[@usssanjacinto1]

He would be honored to be hidden by his shade.

[@janettermach6189]

mt. Rushmore is so very beautiful, I can close my eyes and can still see the beauty

[@a.a.5980]

Wasn´t this a holy site for the Natives? I mean they were protesting to at least leave them that untouched, right? Nobody in Australia, doesn´t matter how bold or great, didn´t curve Uluru out and still handle it with respect since its sacred to Aboriginals.

[@barnicletoast]

hyup.

[@Staminist-MMF-80]

Actually the monument was never finished, only declared as finished, because WW2 and fundings, so they had to declare it as "finished". Look at Abe's head/har - obviously needed much more work.

[@barchetta575m]

Yes, we need to add Trump!!! MAGA!!!

[@00chla50]

@@barchetta575m Just no

[@kanedawong]

barchetta575m No trump is the worst president

[@elchucofried5683]

@@barchetta575m bro are you trying to get the entire monument bombed??? How selfish to think Trump a home alone hollywood star belongs with the greatest presidents of our history.

[@Brucev7]

@@kanedawong The Ex Jihadist President is

[@zainnnzy]

Very well narrated.

[@DarthCipient]

Batman should be added to the mountain.

[@shadow_endo]

lol

[@ThanhNguyen-rm5pp]

DarthCipient : added Bin Laden better.

[@ICEMAN_GLX]

Add Donald Trump

[@DarthCipient]

Ultimatevapor918 If that orange turd is added to Mount Rushmore, all the other presidents will move to a different mountain

[@bruceschweitzer]

I will destroy it and monuments of me will be everywhere earthling

[@occamsrazor7939]

It is a work of art.

[@madvillain5732]

*It’s a work of vandalism on ancient land.*

[@thebaumgardnerlotmuch7079]

Let's go add some graffiti to it

[@bradykim8438]

@@madvillain5732 Do you try to make every joyful thing sad?

[@madvillain5732]

@@bradykim8438 seems like our forefathers did😁

[@bradykim8438]

@@madvillain5732 Conquest and colonization has been around since the dawn of man, but it seems you guys always go after the trail of tears.

[@Booga04Minecraft]

It makes me sad to hear that the the designer never got to see the finished result. I bet he would be proud though.

[@TvConfusionn]

Honest Man Shut up

[@eliegbert8121]

its not finished

[@soybasedjeremy3653]

@@eliegbert8121 ...

[@subugatai7072]

Honest Man the fact that you even think of that makes you gay.

[@bradykim8438]

Eli is correct. The original designer wanted the president’s to have bodies and reportedly wanted to build a room behind the heads where the Declaration and the Constitution would be stored.

[@rustydog1236]

A little Rushmore trivia: Gutzon Borglund actually had 3 sons. Their names were Lincoln, Mercury, and Ford.

[@romeoromero808]

That’s a neat lil fact

[@bevn362]

Where did you get this info from? He had one son Lincoln & one daughter Mary & one other child

[@tapvohahuy]

That was absolutely mesmerizing

[@DenibeustheGamer]

Why are all the comments so negative?

[@Gobbersmack]

Asshurt injuns.

[@TheBoldImperator]

More like white folk getting offended for the sake of red folk. The libs don't realize it, but they're only reinforcing the noble savage stereotype as they do so.

[@the_endgame]

@@TheBoldImperator The tribes were always opposed to this monument. This particular mountain was part of their tribal origin story and is sacred to them.

[@mickeydrago9401]

@@the_endgame EXCUSE FOR INDIAN SAVAGERY: sacred land RUSHMORE, when it was just a rock face, went back and forth between tribal warfare...

[@AngeloB1307]

Denibeus because people are such losers

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

Mount Rushmore is an awesome monument and powerful symbol in American History.

[@jakewhoskate]

Crazy horse is awesome too!!

[@randyscott9720]

Black Hills get Treaty Broken, natives slaughtered then scar their most sacred of all Lands for all time. A forever reminder of injustice

[@pashakdescilly7517]

No mention in this video of the fact that the land belongs to the Lakota, and is sacred to them. They proved in the Supreme Court that it is theirs by treaty right - and the Court offered them monetary compensation. Not much. They want the land, not any money they may be offered for it.... It is theirs by Treaty right. That is equivalent to it being in the US Constitution.

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

If you can't defend your land, then someone else is going to take it. That's just history, nobody is perfect.

[@hunkpapa5843]

@@fiammanerapatrick3215 so if China invaded the US you’d be okay with it because the US couldn’t defend its country?

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

@@hunkpapa5843 If that happens, then that happens. I assume the United States is able to stop a Chinese invasion, but that's just another example of what I was saying. If were are not able to defend the land we sit on, someone else will come in and try to take it.

[@iancruz6617]

There 1 million dollar that growing in banks i remember mention they have not pick up.

[@iancruz6617]

@@fiammanerapatrick3215 I mean communist china took over. The rea china went nope and went tawain.

[@johnlocke4695]

Great monument, Really mesmerizing.

[@johngalt8279]

How can it be great, when it was created on stolen land? The Black Hills, including Mt. Rushmore, legally belong to the Lakota Sioux people, like it or not.

[@johnlocke4695]

@@johngalt8279 It legally belongs to the American people.

[@johngalt8279]

@@johnlocke4695 no, it does not. Legally, it belongs to the Lakota Sioux people, per the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which grants legal ownership of the entire Black Hills, including Six Grandfathers (what you Europeans call Mt. Rushmore) to the Lakota. You people are trespassing and squatting on Lakota land, cupcake. Try and keep up with harsh reality. But of course, if you believe that the law of the land...YOUR law...should not be extended to the rights of Native Americans, then come on out and admit that you're a hopeless bigot, as well as an invasive foreigner living on stolen land.

[@saltycoffe1631]

@@johngalt8279 American belongs to Americans by right of conquest. The principal of democracy this represents inspires all of humanity and will continue to do so for thoousands of years. Cope and seeth

[@johngalt8279]

@@saltycoffe1631 sorry, puddin', but those plethora of treaties that your people drafted and signed, acknowledging legal land ownership by the tribes, negates the validity of your argument. The US Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that indeed, the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie is valid, so the Black Hills legally belong to the Lakota Sioux people. All such violated treaties...none of which has a statute of limitations...need to be revisited by an army of attorneys. You are living on stolen land, rendering you a squatter. Deal with it.

[@jhay3966]

it took my whole lifetime to make this

[@mickeydrago9401]

good job, i'm proud of u, and thank u for your service to THE FOUR WHITE MEN

[@oldtimer5745]

Obama , Malcom x and rev. Luther kin faces will be added soon to celebrate the beginning of the end ofthe racial Oppression

[@loutimmons3099]

The SD state historian who started it all was Doane Robinson... NOT Duane. He's the person who first contacted Gutzon Borglum

[@grantmalone]

If this was an ancient monument we'd probably assume that the civilization collapsed before it was finished.

[@paulpaschulke8636]

Climate change => collapsing civilizations. So, be patient...

[@uio890138]

@@paulpaschulke8636 The neanderthal's cave fires caused the climate change that ended the Ice Age, so I guess you are right....... snowflake.

[@makteko]

@@paulpaschulke8636 Lol, I doubt we are the generation that will see the collapse of this civilization.

[@paddyp3457]

Thank goodness they address the topic of the video's title

[@icebergrose8955]

Yes it is a sacred mountain. They should never have graffiti it.

[@corrado]

Sacred? yeah ok.

[@rohilahrohilah2241]

I often use this theme on my work computer screen. It used to be at PT Harindotama Mandiri in 1993-2016 'Exactly a song that has no title' Thank you

[@gailcrook2687]

I'm blown away, beautiful, outstanding, a work of art. Too far for me in the UK, especially as I get travel sick, shame

[@magicalkillerz9130]

sadly this place and rock was belong to the natives which like US always does stole it and break the treaty

[@ray-vw5qm]

Went to the black hills, pretty cool

[@Chelz12]

I love this country! The USA!

[@guss3840]

Where’s Team America’s base?

[@LastCommodore]

I'm glad I got to see it in 2003, never imagining that people in 2020 would talk of removing it.

[@NoName-tz5ji]

aboctok roflmfao don’t get out much or watch tv either.

[@last5902]

Crazy how the KZbin algorithm suddenly recommend this to me after freaking. 6 years

[@Cryptonymicus]

Something's seriously wrong when you have to instruct the Smithsonian about the possessive of "it" and its distinction from "it is."

[@mightymint4521]

Cursive isn't taught anymore, the education system is broken. Cursive was phased out because AI can't read it. Welcome to the hive.

[@USA50_]

God Bless America 🇺🇲❤️🗽🌹🕊️

[@JENDALL714]

In 2,000 years, future people will be wondering how the monument was created with such primitive tools, and speculate it could only be built with help from Ancient Aliens.

[@stonew1927]

In 2,000 years there won't be any humans left to wonder about anything. Maybe then the Earth can begin to heal . . .

[@MichaelJ44]

Stone W Oh you’re one of those. Heil Greta Thunberg!

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

I think they'll look to Mount Rushmore like we do with the Sphinx. It's said 10,000 years from now, this monument will still be recognizable.

[@makteko]

@@stonew1927 Lol, you really believe that?😂😂😂

[@stonew1927]

@@makteko Yes, I do! It certainly is a possibility at the rate of degration of our environment and Planet. Things are happening now extremely fast. But I'm not interested in trying to convince people who aren't in touch with reality "😂"

[@FlickSh0tt]

When we all disappear and there’s nothing left of our infrastructure and technology. Only Mount Rushmore will be left to show this period in history. In time it will weather like the Sphinx but should last thousands of years.

[@JahRandom]

How about the fact that the original plan was to have their full bodies too, not just their heads?

[@noahhall5623]

It looks better with the heads

[@saipanbrad]

They couldn't find enough granite for Roosevelt's "stones"

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

I mean, I like it the way it is, because if it was completed, the heads wouldn't be the main focus as they are now.

[@roquefortfiles]

If you go around the back you'll find that they're all kneeling.

[@madvillain5732]

*Itwould look better destroyed tbh*

[@yancyguillergan8639]

Its awesome.genius .bright ideas,one of a kind,exquisite.sculpture.I salute the people who sculpture this rock mountain.skillful..thanks fr the video.

[@FriedRiceINC]

Imagine having your ancestral homeland seized and then carved into the faces of your oppressors. While it is beautiful and impressive, it is an eternal scar on the natural landscape. A constant reminder to the Lakota Sioux about how their land was stolen from them even after the US government promised them the land in the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The history of Mount Rushmore must be taught alongside the atrocities the US government has committed against Native Americans. This monument should serve as a reminder to those atrocities.

[@monkeygraborange]

Blah, blah, blah...

[@ColHogan-le5yk]

Outback Sam damn, they were lucky, I want that!

[@ColHogan-le5yk]

monkeygraborange Couldn't have said it better myself.

[@TheBoldImperator]

I'm sure the faces in the mountain remind them harder than being forced onto reservations for the sum of their existence succumbing to alcohol poisoning slowly. Milquetoast liberal.

[@TheDeanoSupremo]

Outback Sam Yeah, and the Lakota originally stole the Black Hills from the Cheyenne in the late 1700s. The name Paha Sapa (Black Hills) is Lakota, not Cheyenne. We simply took posession of previously stolen property about 100 years later. What can you say? Karma is a bitch! Lol

[@tastemakerguidie]

drouble dogma ball is an *apple* quenched

[@stanfordite]

Mount Rushmore is never coming down, period. Anyone who says it should has no right to say so.

[@warrenputnam2348]

stanfordite exactly

[@samwood8452]

correct

[@gamingforaday5446]

I love america ❤🇺🇸❤

[@everglide15]

reminds me of the videos you watch at many of the national parks before taking a tour/entering the park. gave me goosebumps thinking about when I visited rushmore. amazing trip that you really need to make if you are an american

[@tdubblz]

Such a nice little tribute. Wonder how the natives felt about this

[@tdubblz]

Dan Trebune people who care about other people. Duh 😒

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

@@tdubblz And why should I care about the natives?

[@tdubblz]

Fiamma Nera Patrick you need prayer, colonizer. What goes up always comes back down. Your words and your attitude, and that of scores of humans such as yourself, will be the burden of our whole nation. We won’t be on top forever. You always pay for your sins.

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

@@tdubblz You still haven't answered my question.

[@tdubblz]

Fiamma Nera Patrick either you can’t read or you can’t interpret.

[@MystoRobot]

If they carved one of these in Russia, they'd call it the "Mount Rush B".

[@legotech101]

It’s such a disgrace that they carved those into the sacred mountains

[@deprogramm]

there just mountains you stupid injun.

[@brianreed1859]

Sacred? What's so sacred about rock and dirt that nature carved over thousands of years, maybe millions? What about what was there millions of years ago that got eroded away? Who should be punish for that? Mother Nature? God? Lol ridoculous

[@subugatai7072]

chemicalsam I hereby claim the Chartreuse mountain range for my people and declare it our scared land. My people being my immediate family of course. You see how easy this is?

[@marcomarcino9898]

Wonderfull storry, ill definately have to go and see it some day.

[@revinhatol]

_"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism."_ _"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."_ _"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."_ _"It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present, precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises."_

[@binozia-old-2031]

finally a good narrator its very fitting

[@carlosamselle9786]

They need to finish the Crazy Horse Memorial... 🐎

[@carlosamselle9786]

They just gotta stop building statues altogether then..😔

[@desantotony77]

Amazing monument, amazing country!. Congrats USA! Great nation on earth.

[@randyscott9720]

Stole this land from the real Americans, slaughtered them and then scared their most sacred of all lands.

[@cyberpleb2472]

Certainly one of the greatest acts of vandalism ever perpetrated.

[@lindseydanger8622]

Agreed. And all the rubble under it isn't very pretty either

[@lilithlevay]

Tf

[@Booga04Minecraft]

This comment section is so toxic.

[@mickeydrago9401]

unAMERICANess has its polarity increasingly matched by the right... the right has been catching up...

[@patrickjohnson7401]

If I could sit on my grandfathers head?

[@pinkywinky911]

I’m Filipino and I wish to see Mt. Rushmore and the Lincoln memorial with my own eyes someday because Abraham Lincoln is one of my heroes 😍

[@shagwellington]

Check out the Crazy Horse carving on a mountain nearby. It's worth a look if you have come that far.

[@JihadBunnydick]

Why?

[@dedethom9]

@@JihadBunnydick its wonderful

[@firasajoury7813]

@@JihadBunnydick Filipinos have inferiority complex towards those who colonized them

[@theinspector7882]

...and the dates Lincoln & Rossevelt carvings were finished??

[@jacksonkuehler671]

I live there love seeing the tourist

[@vlastaleistikow6934]

A piece of real Art! Wauw!

[@onomatopoeia162003]

it's true about the motorcycles. Coming from MN myself.

[@airelj7417]

mount rush B

[@mickeydrago9401]

i don't get it

[@zacmurray1247]

Big time rush?

[@dannelson99]

FDR should be next on MT. RUSHMORE . He got us out of the great depression/ ww2. created social security and only president to serve 4 terms.

[@Kingfisher1215]

Daniel Nelson Franklin Delenoe Rominoski? Kramers nemesis in Seinfeld. I agree.

[@Thonolan000]

@Councilman Les Wynan I believe Daniel meant that FDR should be added next to the existing sculptures.

[@cobaltskyhammer9600]

Someday, i'll go visit that :)

[@USA50_]

Share our thanks for the USA daily 😊🇺🇲❤️

[@PopeLando]

Click bait title! I came here to see what it would have looked like! You just showed what there is now, not even period footage of when it was being built! 😠

[@행호할캥홍]

It feels strange to look at among rocks mountain

[@SmithsonianChannel]

Make sure to tune in to #AerialAmerica The Dakotas tonight at 8PM to hear the story behind Mount Rushmore.

[@daniellaaaaaaaa]

Smithsonian Channel My class is working on Meriweather Louis and William Clark a.k.a Louis and Clark

[@russellfarris7257]

There's a spelling error in your description. Good work, Smithsonian.

[@akabga]

I'm disgusted you didn't mention the plan to include the TEN COMMANDMENTS. Instead, you said 'a tablet inscribed with an inspirational text" Religious cleansing.

[@michaelcomeros2139]

this is the real hokage

Legend says near Mount Rushmore is a hidden village. I believe a leaf village..

[@tomfriel2728]

Lewis and Clark deserve a monument

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

I wonder if we will ever create anything like this ever again in America.

[@bullshitvendor]

count on it! america is brimming with idiots

[@johngalt8279]

Dunno...do the Native Americans have any land left for the US to steal, in order to create another such carving on stolen land?

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

@@johngalt8279 the land never belonged to them.

[@firasajoury7813]

@@KFrost-fx7dt 😂

[@tastemakerguidie]

LAD ; the affirmation was in depth & you justified not being mindful CORRECT

[@harbar3000]

Where will Trump be carved?

[@brianreed1859]

Maybe a prison cell

[@xenonite3367]

On his gravestone

[@tastemakerguidie]

guidie understood

[@robertbloom1268]

I found gold in a very secret place in and around Mount Rushmore

[@ramani.g390]

I saw the movie North by North West, Hitchcock film which was very much impressed me to see this clip. Thanks lot to Smithsonian.

[@thattaehyungsmile5845]

Konoha's great stone faces 😂

[@mwplayer3778]

Lind hiden in the guns

[@user-kd3xr5ft9k]

@@mwplayer3778 😂

[@wiseowl239]

1st, 3rd, 16th and 26th Presidents, all all selected for notable reasons. If it were being constructed today, would any America choose and additional presidents?

[@WaluigiLebron]

F.D.R and maybe JFK

[@wiseowl239]

@@WaluigiLebron According to Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich, Lincoln was a failure at every thing he did until he met the love of his life Ann Rutledge.

[@boruto8318]

No one: Literally no one: Anime fans: HaShirama ToBiRaMa HiRuZeN MiNAto

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

It was originally supposed to go down to the presidents' waists. You can see the rough carving of what would've been Lincoln's hand on his coat.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

The four Presidents on Mt. Rushmore, each one lived on the planet the SAME time as the other at one point: George Washington was 11 years old when Thomas Jefferson was born. Thomas Jefferson was 17 years old when Abraham Lincoln was born. Abraham Lincoln was 49 years old when Theodore Roosevelt was born...

[@juliaweber5026]

Granite wow beautiful

[@laterdudesaint]

what a giant affront to the native peoples.

[@subugatai7072]

The_Endgame ah, is it their fault that they are technologically superior? You make it sound like they can control spreading disease (remember rats from Asia killing a third of European population?). The native tribes also genocided other tribes to survive. I

[@the_endgame]

@@subugatai7072 on the whole, indigenous life outclassed white settler life by every metric. The youngest sioux soldiers who killed custer lived until their 90s.. The same white settlers of that time lived on average till their 40s.

[@subugatai7072]

The_Endgame I didn’t mention life expectancy. And genetics cannot be controlled (then).

[@the_endgame]

@@subugatai7072 I don't give a fuck of you mentioned "life expectancy". That was in my comment, the one that YOU replied to. Move along dipshit, if people are talking about apples don't come along talking oranges and act like your God's gift to intellectual conversation.

[@shagwellington]

They should finish it. When you visit it they have a model of the original plan. It would have had more detail, of clothing etc. The Great Depression slowed funding and caused the monument to not be completely finished.

[@GH-oi2jf]

Shag Wellington - No, you don’t finish another artist’s work. It would be like finishing Stuart’s portrait of Washington. Unthinkable!

[@azbarnhill]

Good thing they didn't put the 10 commandments on it, as they would need to tear it down in this day in age.

[@roomtemperaturechilipepper3192]

I saw Mount Rushmore from A helicopter one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen not only Mount Rushmore but the landscape around it

[@ryanmax-grappler8654]

Was this before or after naruto

[@newwavepressure6478]

What about the room that was built up there to to display something

[@mrmister1657]

If aliens come to earth hopefully one of the first things they see is Mount Rushmore lol

[@Tricorvus]

When my parents were born, none of the carvings existed yet. Whoa.... Not until they were 9 & 11 years old, was the first one on there... trying to get my head around that...

[@mayaozen487]

Beautiful monument

[@olddogcitypound5859]

Mount Baldy would look much better without the white faces on the stone.R.I.P. CRAZY HORSE FIRST NATION FOREVER 🔥

[@saipanbrad]

Also the first losers :)

[@johngalt8279]

@@saipanbrad Black Hills legally belong to the Lakota, you putz. Learn our history, if you want to live in our 'muriKKKa.