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EDITORIAL: Trump Is Aiming for Mount Rushmore. Why Not Heaven, Too? – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

EDITORIAL: Trump Is Aiming for Mount Rushmore. Why Not Heaven, Too?

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The Editors, National Catholic Register, October 14, 2025

EDITORIAL: When the president of the United States says he doesn’t think ‘anything’ can get him into heaven, it’s a teachable moment — a chance to remind him, and ourselves, that Divine Mercy is greater than any human achievement.

We tend to sell ourselves short, all too aware of our limits and weaknesses. Donald Trump is not like the rest of us in this regard.

Not ordinarily, anyway.

Trump possesses such heaping reserves of self-confidence that there isn’t a skyscraper on the planet tall enough to contain it. This exasperates his critics, of course. Even some of his most ardent supporters occasionally cringe at his braggadocio.

There is, to cite one example, his expressed wish to have his likeness added to Mount Rushmore. “Outrageous!” we might think. But, really, is it such a terrible thing for a president to aspire to be one of the all-time greats? Would we like it better if the leader of our country aimed for the mean? …

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