South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem slammed MSNBC host Joy Reid for denigrating Mount Rushmore on Presidents Day.
“Last night @JoyAnnReid called Mount Rushmore the ‘stone idol to presidential colonizers.’ On Presidents’ Day of all days!” the Republican governor tweeted Tuesday morning. “The left wants to re-write our history by attacking the leaders who made America the most special country ever. It’s our duty to teach our kids the truth.”
Reid criticized the Republican governor for her close relationship with former President Donald Trump and mocked her over reports that she gave him a gift that depicted his face on Mount Rushmore, located in Keystone, South Dakota.
“According to financial disclosures last month, Noem gave you-know-who a $1,000 bust depicting him on the stone idol to presidential colonizers last year because she knew it was something that he wanted to receive,” Reid said on her MSNBC program on Presidents Day Monday night.
Earlier this year, Noem proposed almost $1 million in funding for South Dakota’s teaching curriculum with the goal of teaching students “why the U.S. is the most special nation in the history of the world.”
“I have tasked my administration with creating instructional materials and classroom resources on America’s founding, our nation’s history, and the state’s history,” Noem wrote in an op-ed last month. “We must also do a better job giving teachers preparational materials on these three subjects.”
“Through all of this, our common mission and key objective needs to be explaining why the United States of America is the most unique nation in the history of the world,” she said. “With this knowledge as a foundational building block, every South Dakotan can then chart their own path in the future and pursue their own American Dream.”
