In a piece originally titled “Let’s Blow Up Mount Rushmore” and later changed to “Let’s Get Rid of Mount Rushmore,” Wilbert L. Cooper, senior editor at Vice.com, taking the lead from a satirical piece from The Daily Caller titled “It’s Time to Blow Up Mount Rushmore” that mocked the leftist urge to rewrite American history, got deadly serious about truly destroying the monument.
Cooper noted President Trump’s comments in which he decried the destroying of monuments to American historical figures, asserting that the slippery slope created by such efforts would lead to the removal of statues to giants like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Cooper wrote of the founders of America:
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