President Joe Biden made headlines last month by announcing that he was no longer running for another term in the White House.

The bombshell move brought praise from many Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who recently suggested that Biden's face should go on Mount Rushmore.  

Pelosi: "You can add Biden"

According to Fox News, Pelosi made the bizarre suggestion during an interview this past weekend with CBS News host Lesley Stahl.

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Stahl reacted incredulously, asking, "Are you really saying that he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore? Lincoln and Joe Biden?"

"Well, you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he's wonderful," Pelosi replied. "I don't say take him down. But you can add Biden."

Pelosi denies pressuring Biden to end his campaign

Pelosi's new-found desire to venerate Biden may seem odd given that she was at the forefront of demands from Democrats that he end his reelection campaign.

"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," Fox News quoted the California congresswoman as telling MSNBC.

"I'm not the head of the caucus anymore, but he's beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision," she added.

However, Pelosi denied that she was behind Biden's ouster, telling Stahl, "No, I wasn’t the leader of any pressure [campaign]."

"Let me say things that I didn’t do: I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person. I could always say to him, 'I never called anybody,'" she insisted.

Republicans quick to mock Mount Rushmore idea

Meanwhile, Newsweek reported that Pelosi's call for the president's face to appear on Mount Rushmore was mocked by Republicans.

Detractors included South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, who wrote in a social media post that "Mount Rushmore is not a place to celebrate someone who lied about his mental decline, willfully and knowingly endangered the lives of the American people, crushed American families, undermined the Constitution, and weakened our country at home and abroad."

"Joe Biden's 4 years as President—with Kamala Harris being part of those radical policies and countless failures—will go down as the worst in American history," the governor went on to add.