President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans."
Murtaugh also offered more evidence of pre-Trump administration praise for Mount Rushmore from CNN and the Obamas, offering these retweets:
"2013: First Lady Mic e Obama called Mount Rushmore one of the 'great American sites.'
2020: NYT decries Mount Rushmore and liberals call for it to be taken down."
Parkinson and Murtaugh even found that CNN's Jim Acosta, seen as a staunch critic of the current administration, had previously praised Mount Rushmore, calling it a "fitting campaign stop for a presidential contender."
Murtaugh tweeted:
"Jim Acosta's network would never alter its opinion of Mount Rushmore based on who was visiting, would it?"
Parkinson, in a similar vein, referenced a 2016 visit by Demnocratic socialist and two-time presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., where the landmark was again praised by CNN:
"In 2016, CNN's Jeff Zeleny called Mount Rushmore a 'monument to four great American Presidents'
Bernie Sanders said 'this is our country at its very best,' called it an 'incredible achievement,' and said it 'really does make one very proud to be an American.'"
Murtaugh said that CNN seems to have altered its opinion on the eight-decade-old monument only since the 2016 election won by Trump, tweeting, " CNN has had a change of heart on Mount Rushmore, for some reason, since 2016."