Yesterday, July 1, 2026, President Donald Trump flew for the first time on the new AF-1 (Air Force One), the gift from Qatar which obviously had to undergo rigorous inspection and massive upgrades to be suitable for American presidents.
He flew to Medora, North Dakota, to officially open the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Trump presented the library with Theodore Roosevelt’s Congressional Medal of Honor, which he personally removed from the White House’s Roosevelt Room, and joked about awarding the medal to himself and one of his sons.
We emphasized joked not for those in Carthagena, Ohio, because they would know it was a joke, but for the sake of those unfortunate souls on the Left who are irretrievably smitten with TDS. (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Arriving on a patriotic “Freedom 250” train and escorted by Rough Riders reenactors, Trump used the event to kickoff celebrations for the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Tomorrow, July 3, 2026, DJT will head back to the Dakotas to participate in the America 250 Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration. The White House and South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden confirmed the President will deliver keynote remarks at the event, which marks the return of fireworks to the memorial for the first time since 2020.
Do our readers recall that very curious event where many observed Juan O Savin and one or two others who landed a helicopter on top of the massive sculpture and got out and waved to the crowds? Think about that: could just anyone hire a helicopter and land there without being arrested? Only someone very well-connected could do that…like Juan O Savin?!
The celebration tomorrow evening is restricted to approximately 4,800 ticketed attendees who were selected via a public lottery that closed in April. The National Park Service will close Mount Rushmore to the general public on the evening of July 2, reopening exclusively for ticketholders on July 3 for a program featuring military tributes, flyovers, and a fireworks display over the Black Hills.
My only visit to that great national treasure was on the days preceding our GKM-SKM Bible Conference there (in Rapid City) held October 13-15, 2023. I came down with a horrendous case of strep throat and quarantined myself for the second half of the Conference.
But three days prior, I had picked up the free brochures at Mt. Rushmore, but only skimmed them at the time. When I picked it up yesterday and read it closely, I discovered an interesting coincidence.
The man chosen to be the sculptor was Gutzon Borglum who was born in 1867 to Danish immigrant parents. We find in the timeline in the photo: “1923 SD state historian Doane Robinson proposes carving Old West heroes in the Needles—spirelike granite formations in the Black Hills. Robinson approaches sculptor Gutzon Borglum, then at work on Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain, GA.
1925 Federal and state legislation authorizes carving of memorial in Black Hills. Borglum quits Stone Mountain project and goes to SD. …”
The coincidence? That Borglum was deeply involved in both projects and it connects symbolically to the flagship verses of this ministry:
Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image [Mystery Babylon] upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain [symbol for a kingdom], and filled the whole earth.
We have even had donation checks made out to “Stone Mountain Ministries” from time to time. For ten or fifteen years, we held our SK Fellowship meetings very near to this location.
Stone Mountain in Georgia rises 825 feet above the surrounding suburban Atlanta landscape. The massive carving on its face towers 400 feet above the ground, measuring 90 by 190 feet.
The mountain is a major tourist attraction, drawing approximately 4 million visitors annually to its 3,200-acre park. It is often described as a “Confederate Mount Rushmore” due to the large bas-relief sculpture of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.
We wrote about it back in 2010 when a 35-year-old banker fell to his death from Stone Mtn in March 2010. Police said he had gone beyond the warning fence and accidentally plunged 600 feet.
The symbolism is obvious. Six is the number of man (and his beast systems). The banker, the money power, fails to heed warnings (of course, they would fail to heed), and they are destroyed by the Stone Mountain (Stone Kingdom). Not by this tiny ministry, of course, but God’s Stone “cut out of the mountain without hands.”
I do believe that Trump aspires to be the fifth president memorialized on Mt. Rushmore. He has often said, and very early on in his political career, that we are in a Second American Revolution. Many of us understand that he is absolutely correct and taking down the money power of Mystery Babylon globally is central to restoring liberty in America.
And if our nation is blessed by DJT’s success in this monumental endeavor, then I would assert that he would be worthy of being thus memorialized on that monument. Meanwhile, I plan to be watching all the festivities tomorrow at Mt. Rushmore, and then over the weekend at the continuing festivities at the WH, the national mall, and the reflecting pool (swamp) that had to be drained and repaired!
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