Nancy Pelosi Proposes Adding Joe Biden to Mount Rushmore
On Sunday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested that President Joe Biden had earned a place on Mount Rushmore for choosing to drop out of the 2024 presidential election, a comment which garnered her significant pushback and ridicule on social media.
Pelosi was being interviewed by CBS journalist Lesley Stahl when she was asked about reports claiming that she had been at the forefront of efforts to remove Biden from the race, following his June debate against former President Donald Trump, which was widely viewed as a disaster for his reelection chances.
Pelosi refused to state the details of her conversations with Biden when asked what she had said to him to get him to step aside, but when Stahl pushed further, noting that she was viewed as the leader of a “pressure campaign” to get Biden out, Pelosi pushed back.
“I wasn’t the leader of any pressure- let me say the things I didn’t do. I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person, I can always say to him, I never called anybody,” she said. “I had confidence that the president would make the proper choice for our country, whatever that would be, and I said that, whatever that is, we’ll go with.”
Pelosi was frequently reported to be at the head of a silent campaign within Congressional Democrats in the wake of the debate, however, she always publicly supported Biden.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi told MSNBC at the time. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. The, I think, overwhelming support of the caucus, it’s not for me to say. I’m not the head of the caucus anymore, but he’s beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision. Not me.”
She also denied seeing any decline in Biden, but says she told him that he needed “a more aggressive campaign.
It was then that she made the claim that Biden was “a Mount Rushmore president.”
“He was in a good place to make whatever decision, top of his game, such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president of the United States,” Pelosi said, prompting disbelief from Stahl.
“Are you really saying that he belongs up there? On Mount Rushmore? Lincoln and Joe Biden.” Stahl asked incredulously.
“Well you’ve got Teddy Roosevelt up there,” Pelosi responded. “And he’s wonderful, I don’t say take him down, but you could add Biden.”
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The sculpture features the 60-foot-tall (18 m) heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln,.
THEY, these were chosen to represent the nation's birth, growth, development, and preservation.
Adding Joe (and his open border czar) as presiding over its decline, is what she probably was really revealing.
That old biddy just can't help trying to put things past the American public.
@SteelHands "I want to celebrate Joe Biden and his remarks last night, giving up power, as you know, almost never happens in Washington," Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., said Thursday in response to Biden's Oval Office address on Wednesday night. "George Washington led by example. Joe Biden did," Phillips said. "I want to celebrate him and also recognize what a gift he gave to his country, putting it above his own self-interest."
"Presidents are merely custodians of the White House," The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said. "They're there as elected representatives of the people. Not to be there forever. Not running because the country is all based around them and their vision. They're there to serve for a period." George Washington knew when to pass the baton," she said. "I said a year ago on this show, if [Biden] did pass the baton to a next generation of leadership the history books would remember him very fondly and I believe that deeply."
CNN host Abby Phillip said that the president would be a much more "powerful" national figure if he continued to lean into the decision he made by dropping out of his presidential campaign. "This moment puts [Biden], you know, with a bunch of American greats, you know, the sort of George Washingtons of the world," Phillip said.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough read from a guest essay by historian Jon Meacham that was published on Monday in The New York Times. "His decision is one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in our history, an act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington, who also stepped away from the presidency," Meacham wrote.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid said Wednesday that Biden showed the country the extent to which he would sacrifice his own personal ambitions. "This was selfless on a level, I think, that's important in a way that we talk about George Washington being selfless," Reid said.
"If you cannot appreciate the dignity, the grace, the selflessness, the patriotism of that speech – akin to Washington's farewell – but instead feel compelled to denigrate him, nitpick or return to petty partisan politics I pity you," Washington Post columnist Jen Rubin wrote Wednesday. "You're denying yourself the majesty, the inspiration of America and of a great president.
@sunsporter1649 That's General George Washington to that puny brained crowd.
His excellency, General George Washington who never held any other office and knew how to generate wealth not tax it.
His excellency General George Washington that did more in freedom's cause in the four years before he was president than all other presidents combined.
The presidents elected never having held any other government office is a short list and Joe isn't on it.
